Guy in a Boat
Jet Boat Lover
- Messages
- 66
- Reaction score
- 32
- Points
- 67
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2012
- Boat Model
- 242 Limited S E-Series
- Boat Length
- 24
Im starting this thread to document my restoration. A little history, I bought a new AR210 in 2019 after one year I had a project at my business and needed all available resources so I sold it July of 20, great boat, perfect space, gutless 3cyl engines, horrible speed and power, 37mph wonder is what I called it. So I start looking at the new AR250s, love that boat, Sehorns in Shawnee said that Yamaha has cut 20% from their available boats this year and that they only had 210s left. April of 21 I found this 2012 242 in Tulsa with 400hrs on the clock, the guy had just moved here from Miami FL. Boat was all there but absolutely disgusting, I didnt know that hording also applied to boat owners. We all try to look things over when we buy, but, we all know that once you had a few hrs with it in your garage you start seeing things you wish you had not seen. Trailer brake lines had been cut, calipers removed, rotors looked like layered biscuits, and the equalizer was paper thin all from the salt water. Im going to go out on a limb and say the trailer was in a flood from a hurricane? Maybe you salt water guys can explain why a 10 year old trailer looks like the Titanic. Once I started cleaning EVERYTHING with Acetone, including the fairly fugly reupholstered seats, I noticed some overspray on the tower and the paint felt grainy to me and realized this boats top half has been repainted before. I wet sanded and polished the sides to removed oxidation and the more I looked at my $38K purchase the more I became disgusted with myself, and embarrassed to be honest. I ordered SeaDek from Jetboatpilot.com and got the full option pieces. The more I thought about the nightmare of removing the factory mat I thought it would be a shame to install it over stained white paint. So one evening I decided to stop thinking about it, I dug out my containers from my auto painting days and got started. Originally I was going to just paint it all black, I searched the internet for a custom painted yamaha and could not find anything. I wanted it to stand out from the crowd and with the tan seats orange was the color I came up with, Hemi orange from a 2019 Challenger to be exact. I am posting a lot of pictures, some are the boat, some are the trailer and some are the removal of the junky engine hatch pad. I painted the underside of the hatch and am in the process of installing Dynamat pad I have left over from my 66 ford I recently restored. A few things you will notice is I installed new latches, Yamaha has taken weeks to send them so I found the black ones on Amazon and much cheaper, had them in 24hrs, I think the black looks much better. I left the side strips of Seadeck off the back because I think it looks too gawdy, you tell me. Also I left the pads off infront of the windsheild because I have a antenna on the helm so they pulled those from the order. I ordered pads for a AR240 so that I get the full mat over the jet clean out hatch, I am not a fan of those cushions on the floor, I feel like I am standing on the furniture. At this point I am waiting for the engine hatch paint to dry to install the dynamat, and I am waiting on trailer parts. I live in Oklahoma so I dont see salt water in my near future, the trailer place will order me just painted parts not galvanized.
