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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...

Yes, when I bought mine new in 2015 there was a local Body Shop within two miles of a large Marina that we bought ours and all they do was paint matching boat motors. They perfectly matched mine to the graphics on my boat it looks like a tiger has clawed it... black & gold and a splash of green...

My neighbor owned a high end Barletta and had bow and stern thrusters that were controlled with a joystick. This was a factory option and you could twirl the things 360 degrees in its own footprint. Would certainly be handy but also an expensive thing to fix if you sucked a bunch of garbage in...

I did the star bright cover water repellent about two months ago and it worked excellently on my cover. Just make sure you get the nasty solvent-based stuff and not the water-based water repellant. The solvent base really permeates the fabric, and it beads water like off a duck's back. Sprayed...

I had my 2015 Q series into the factory for some warranty repair about four to five years ago, part of it was fixing a new black fence along the side that required new splash graphics. They searched the factory over and found the very last set of these graphics they had in stock. We were...

We had a 5000 pound 10 foot wide lift, it had side rails and the three cradles for the toons. It worked well for us because we could bump our way in if needed in tough wind and as soon as the cradles found the tunes we were locked. Just another opinion....