Recent content by Potomacbassin’

Do you have a picture?

Pros - new boat, bigger, faster and makes you look 20 years younger. Cons - none, unless all the newfound attention from the bikini crowd irritates the wife. Seriously the more you spend, the more you tend to get. At some point you'll hit a point of diminishing returns - I've hit that...

Try contacting Bennington direct, they have a very responsive customer support/engineering team.

On mine IIRC there are nuts on both sides of the ignition switch, so taking the 4? screws off the ignition panel provides access. Be careful torquing them back on as they can crack the plastic panel or helm.

Probably a DIY job. I would try cargo netting or bungees, something that obviously can drain but also not be a false step in case you have a person back there thinking the can put their weight on it. Also when you tilt the engine up and into the well your cables/fuel line will need room to...

Moderating a forum is a tough gig, I don't envy you guys. We just need to avoid biting the hand that has provided us this great resource. There are other forums if we have axes to grind.

Water in the splash well is normal. Are you trying to keep water out of it?? Or suspend the fuel line and engine harness up and out of the splash well?

No help with the sea legs... just here to say how jealous I am of your location! One of my favorite places to fish!

Not really - I just changed the LU gear oil and when I lowered the engine into the water there was a slight sheen from residual oil that looked like it could have been fuel.

Any maintenance done recently?

Range primarily. Heavier boats with bigger engines to push them do more work and need more fuel. Throw in a tower that drags air and tubes with 300lbs of kids off the back and fuel efficiency is pretty terrible. Some boaters make long runs and so carrying capacity is a very big advantage to...

Boat goes faster backwards?? :p

I'm not sure BRP is doing anything new? I tried looking it up, looks like they're going to hold onto products they can stuff a Rotax jet drive into (sea doos, their switch pontoon), but the Ghost is probably dead. It was always a one-trick pony and now that Manitou is going to another owner...

That girl should scoot! Congrats!

BRP recognized that Yamaha, Merc and Zuke (and lesser Honda, Tohatsu) are really good at OB's and put a lot of resources into innovation and keeping market share. Then you have the game where they strike deals to buy transoms and/or outright build boats (ala Skeeter), which is partly why I...