Recent content by Rick C

No, Unfortunately I thought about pictures after we got the boat delivered to the marina. In fact the marina called this AM and they offered me the same center aluminum C-shaped connecter that attaches to the boat OR Bennington has a new type connector that the service man called a "donut...

Hi July 16, my wife and I had our 2012 20' SL Bennington out for a day cruise. We live in Fl. and had our toon on the Rainbow River in Dunnellon FL. This is a beautiful spring fed river that is idle speed only. To make a long story short we were running about 1200 RPM maybe 12mph wind. The...

Keep up the good refurbish work...you will be proud of her at the end of the project.

Congrats on your new Benni............

A big thanks to you all for your help and good ideas. I plan to do the job when she hits around 20 hours. Sure is one smooth running engine and the shifting is smooth as butter! This is a great site...sure would be fun to have an annual gathering! Rick

Daril I am not sure why the dealership does not change the oil filter at 20 hrs. I plan to do it myself. I also read where you need to replace the washer on the oil bolt drain. I did not have this on my 01 Yamaha...new technology I guess. Have a great boating weekend.

Here it is mid July and we only have 8+ hours on our 2012 20' LSI. Wife and I sure love the new Benni. We are not speedsters so we have the 50 Yamaha. We are impressed with the boat and motor. We had a 2001 50 Yamaha on our pervious 16' cat hull until we bought our new toon. I was...

Thank you for your post Geoffrey & Brenda, Remediation, & Looneymosse, Wife and I sure look forward to tooling around in our Bennington. Hard to believe it is still raining here in Fl. Looneymosse you have made some nice "mods" to your SLi. We just sold our 16' Neutico by Seagull...

Great Owners Club! Wife & I brought home our new Bennington May 24th. 2012. We live in central Florida. It has rained the past two weeks on my days off! We are getting boating fever to try out our new boat. The marina did put the boat in the water for about 20 minutes at day of...