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Gonna give this another shout out. The more I have it, the more I like it. I've never washed mine and it has stayed originally stretchable and highly functional. a great addition for non-rainy periods.....

Just another quick mention about plastic clips on the rail. If your fender gets bound or caught while your boat is rocking up and down violently after a wake boat goes by, the worst thing that happens is it pulls down hard on the clip and the clip breaks. The fender ends up laying right there...

2015 QCW fixed tower boat 200 HP 4cyl Yamaha. Overall been a great boat! #1 Where we boat on a river it is very weedy/shallow late in the year. Prop gets wrapped almost every time out as we cross shallow sections to get to deep sections. Should I trim up to go thru weedy areas? Go faster or...

Well, my ladder and anchor mate are in the rear, but they are fully covered in panning. Drilling the rivets out would be one option. It's too bad these weren't put on with small SS screws.....Thank You!

I'm sure this is discussed before, but on my 2015 QCW I have a electric anchor winch and also my ladder both are which somewhat loose and could stand a little tightening up from the underside. Both are covered with solid aluminum panning. What does everybody do to access these bolts to tighten...

Quicksilver Q3 14 pitch....

I had to get rid of my reliance on my 2015 Q series. I have a F200 Yamaha and there was just too much cavitation and slippage pushing this big barge around. Had to get a more aggressive prop with better cupping. So far so good.

We have seen a few Alera's on the water. They are different but not necessarily appealing. Nothing groundbreaking unlike when Barletta hit the scene. One new one that is pretty sharp is Balise pontoons...but they have no real dealer network and hardly any are out there and available...

It's 95% just a dust and dirt cover. If there's just a light passing shower and it'll be over in 15 minutes. I leave it on and we just motor on. If it is going to rain, like for the afternoon or the day, you really need to put the mooring cover on it with poles to get the water to shed off of...

I ended up getting some 6 inch bungee cord to go in the mid loops. Between the main center loops. They hook right onto the slot in the J channel. I can have this thing on and off in 5 minutes. I can't even think about pulling out the mooring color and messing with that heavy beast plus poles in...

I'm at my wits end trying to remove an engine side cover bolt that the hex stripped out in in my F 200 on the oil change plug side. It is the highest bolt and tight to access. I tried drilling into it and using an easy out but cannot get any easy out to bite in it... of course I have a bell...

I'd respray it when it stops beading water. I let mine go for too long and it started to let water soak through. I sprayed mine about June last year and when I took it out in October it was still beading water like a duck's back....I'd think it could go 2 years at least.....

I bought mine straight from Tumacs. The people that make the covers for Bennington. They were much less priced than going through a dealer and I put my own snaps on. Win, win if you really need a new cover.. I probably could have complained about warranty, but my old cover wasn't totally bad. I...

I took my mooring cover off. Laid it out on my driveway and sprayed it with a pump sprayer. I used the starbright product but not the water based, the solvent based. Lasts a whole lot longer, Expensive, but a solid product. I also sprayed my Bimini cover on the boat. I made sure to always spray...

Same here. My blue strip lights that are down the side of the pontoons went out after about eight years. Of course, I called Bennington for parts and they said, well, we have them. $1000. Uh, that would be a big no. Period. Ended up buying some strip lights off of Amazon. 67 bucks for the...