Boating Tips: Controlling your Engines with Mercury DTS

If your vessel has multiple outboards, controlling your boat can be a bit of a challenge at times. In this week’s episode of Boating Tips, Captain Keith shows how easy it is to control your Mercury Outboard Motors with the Mercury DTS system.

Multiple Outboards

From Sea Rays to the latest super center console Boston Whalers, people are adding more and more power to their vessels. It’s great to get where you’re going fast, but sometimes controlling a boat with a lot of power can be a bit challenging, especially in tight quarters. Mercury Outboard DTS controls change the game enabling you to have next-level boat control.

Benefits of Mercury DTS

The Mercury DTS controls (digital throttle and shift) is essentially your one single hub for boat control. It is intuitively designed and when coupled with joystick control enables you to manipulate your boat almost at will. This makes running, idling, approaching docks and other floating objects safely and with confidence.

Capabilities of Mercury DTS Controls

These are just some of the awesome capabilities of the Mercury DTS

Start and stop your engines with the push of a single button

Toggle each engine on and off as needed

Active trim for all motors simultaneously or individually

Ability to sync with Skyhook and Joystick

Throttle only mode to prevent accidental gear shifting

Other Mercury products

Mercury has long been a partner with MarineMax and for good reason! They produce some of the best, most innovative outboards and boat control products in the industry. For this reason, many of the boats we sell here at MarineMax are powered by Mercury, and you can rest assured that all our techs are Mercury certified so your investment is in good hands.
If you want to learn more about Mercury and how they can Power your Journey, click here.
If you have multiple Mercury outboards, we encourage you to give the DTS control box a try. We’ll see you out on the water!

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