The SmartPlug Shore Power and Boating Safety Blog was created to begin a dialog about a very real, yet often ignored issue in boating safety…shore power failure.  Our CEO Ken Smith has been in the marine business for almost 40 years and in that time has replaced more shore power plugs, cords, inlets and outlets for his customers (and himself!) than he’d care to admit.  In bringing his idea for a safer alternative to market, we discovered that the more we dug, the more we found that no one was really talking about the problem…despite some pretty shocking statistics.  After seeing a sign taped to a box of burned shore power plugs at a local boating supply store reading “Have you checked your shore power lately?” we began to wonder how much people really knew about the problem.  Hence, the SmartPlug blog was born.