Recent content by timjet

Thanks guys, here's an update. The cost to recap and reweld will be about $1000. It will look like a patch job but will be water tight. The insurance company wants me to put a new pontoon on and they'll pay so I'm going that route. $6000 for a new toon with $2500 of that just for shipping.

I'm just wondering if the boat is usable until I can get it repaired. In other words does the pontoon have baffles in such a way that water will not completely flood the pontoon.

yup, hoping insurance will cover it. Just curious if this can be repaired. Sounds like maybe.

As you can see in the picture I've damaged the port pontoon. It looks like the weld separated after a bump on a log in the water. Is this an easy repair or is a total replacement necessary?

Hey Guys, took the Bene out this morning and the engine trim gauge worked normally. Got some gas and noticed on the way back the gauge shows the trim in the down position. I trimmed the engine up and the trim works but the gauge does not. This is a Yamaha F200XB with analog gauges. Suggestions...

We spend summers in Michigan so it would be nice to tow our toon from Florida. But I don't have a trailer for the toon nor do I have a place to store it once I get it. Coupled with the choice of renting a boat during the few times we would use it up in Michigan it probably makes no sense to buy...

I will check for an extension cable. I don't know what a wave shield is.

I may or may not be under warranty. I don't have a trailer so it would be difficult to get to a dealer. Any other suggestions. I don't see any damage to the transducer and all connection at the plotter are secure.

Exactly right, I wasn't planning on driving farther than being able to bring my toon home during a hurricane, so a Ridgeline would probably be OK. But it would be nice to have the option of taking it to some other places so I may have to re-think my Ridgeline choice.

Thanks for that. Looks like I will be near max towing capacity of 5000 lbs when I add a trailer.

I'm gong to buy a trailer for my toon. I live in central FL and after 2 near miss hurricanes this year I've decided I need to get the boat off my lift and safely on a trailer. I will also need a truck as my '99 F-150 may just be too old to do the job. I'm considering a new Honda Ridgeline but...

Last month after tying up my toon securely to my dock which included a rope beneath the toons my Simrad stopped displaying depth and water temp. I checked the transducer fixed on a bracket on the port toon extending a couple of inches behind the toon. It looks normal, no weeds or anything...

Thanks for that FM. I am getting use to Simrad having formally used Raymarine and Garmin plotters up and down the intercoastal waterway. I rarely created a route on the plotter itself. Both Garmin and Raymarine had or have a seamless PC interface. My tritoon with the Simrad are on an inland lake...

Does Simrad have PC software that will allow me to create a route on the PC software and download that route to my Simrad Chartplotter?

Thanks Jeff, I thought it was Simtex but nowhere in any literature that I have on the boat does it say what the material is. I do have the cleaning instructions, the same as Dan posted above, but strangely it does not say what the material is.