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When you're going to dock a boat, almost any boat, it takes patience, practice, common sense, and maybe a bit of coaching for the first couple times. With no wind or other influences, it's a relatively simple task. Boats DON'T HAVE BRAKES so they will *coast* for quite a ways without any power...

I ski'd for years and years with various V-bottom boats we've owned. I was the same weight and height then as I am now, 6' 2 1/2" and 240 lbs. I singled with a World Team Comp O'Brian 72" and if any of you know what Caeser's Fountain looks like in Las Vegas, that's what it looked like when I was...

Jack, Don't you mean .125 instead of 1.25? A pontoon that's ONE and a quarter inches thick is pretty thick.

Hope that thing's got air conditioning. I'd bet it get's fairly warm with it all closed up like that. Scott

DanB, Well, hopefully they'll be able to satisfy all your needs. If you would, please report back EXACTLY what they did and, if they found a reservoir plug, where it's located? Always learning here. Scott

DanB, If you're sure that you have hydraulic steering, then yes, you're going to have, or SHOULD have, a helm "plug" of some type, somewhere near the top of the dash/helm. In many of the youtube videos, they show that plug as being right behind the steering wheel. But, on our 2014 25RCL...

I surely thank you for answering me on this. Just also wondering, are there boat manufacturers still using cable systems these days? The OP states model of his boat and the engine but not the year. I'm kind-a under the impression that Benny has been using hydraulic steering for years, no? Scott

Well Sir, Here's what I "might" know about your situation. A good buddy of mine recenlty purchased a shorter Benny, about a 22' with I think a 200HP of which brand I'm not sure. He and his wife asked us along for a sort-a maiden voyage. We'd cruised around the lake a bit and he wanted to go...

May I ask, What "aftermarket joy stick disaster" are you speaking of? Scott

Oh yesssiree Bub, I do know many parts of Havasu and lot's of shallow and "iffy" areas. We also like to explore coves and edges but, we do it at a speed at which the sonar works accurately. And that's not very fast. The closer to a shore we get, the more and more we slow down. I'm the one that...

Well, To me, it's kind-a nonsense to try and get depth readings when your boat's doing what, 20,30 or more mph simply because, what good would it do to know that info? You won't have time to react if the depth all of a sudden was TWO FEET. And, while electronics and computers do move at...

DDL, You don't say what lake of where you're from but I hear ya on the cleaning of the toons to get water/sun affects off of them. Talk about polished, below you see the results of a SERIOUS amount of work. We live in lake Havasu AZ and we don't know what's in our water but, I can put that boat...

Ya know, speaking of A/C problems in vehicles, here's a short story. We have a diesel pusher motorhome. It's now exactly 20 years old and has 113,000 miles on it and runs like a top. The dash A/C worked great for several years until it didn't. I've been a "shade tree DIY type" for decades but...

Oh yeah, no doubt about it, youtube is by far not always an accurate source of information. Ya kind-a have to sift through it to determine or at least try and help determine if what you're seeing or looking at is valid or not. So far, in all my viewing of various vids on various subjects in the...

Well gang, AS some of you know, I recently installed the Sideshift stern thruster. We got a chance to see how it performed right after the install and so far, I'm very well impressed. But, while doing some basic maneuvering right off the trailer and in the marina, I noticed (and actually it's...