Running the air conditioner, chiller plates, icemaker, livewells, and spooling up the gyrostabilizer all require a raw-water supply. That usually means the boat has to be in the water so the intakes can feed the various systems. When Mark Boettcher of Summit Marine Technology passed a brand-new 42-foot boat regularly in a New Jersey marina that had been sitting on a lift for two summers, his thoughts kept feeling for the boat.
“I wasn’t only thinking of adhesives coming apart in the cabin, I was thinking of woods getting milky, soft goods getting musty and mildew, and just felt sorry for this boat,” he says. He had an idea of how to solve such a situation, but wasn’t sure how many boats really needed this type of product, so he kept his focus on another raw-water issue he was trying to fix on his boat and filed the idea away. Fast-forward four years and a chance encounter with Matt Woonton of B&M Marine brought that idea back to life, especially when Woonton commented how many inquiries he received each day with that on-the-lift problem. Boettcher and Woonton worked to solve the issue, and in 2023, a partnership was born, and A-Sea Lifted became a reality.
