Laminar Flow
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- Messages
- 25
- Reaction score
- 18
- Points
- 42
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2015
- Boat Model
- Limited S
- Boat Length
- 24
Hi guys:
I have a 2015 242 Limited S that I bought as a 2nd owner a year ago -- a doctor down in South Carolina owned it for the first four years and I got it at just 30 hours of usage. It was in pretty good to great shape.
I live up here in Washington, DC and have been putting the boat on Boatsetter, which is a peer-to-peer boat sharing platform that works just like airbnb. They provide the marketing, billing and insurance and I provide the boat, day-of customer service, and maintenance.
Due to COVID and people wanting to get out of the house and onto the water -- demand has been off the charts -- the number of rentals in 2020 has been about 4-5x higher than the last half of last season that I had the boat on the platform. On a Saturday, it's not unusual to have three bookings that have the boat out from 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
So what I'm getting at is -- keeping the boat maintained/healthy/available for rentals is super important and an area of intense focus for me.
The boat's now just over 300 hours in my year of ownership across 89 rentals -- only major issues have been that the majority of the touchscreen functionality of the Connext has conked out (just the top buttons on the screen along the top still happen to work but can't touch anywhere else -- gotta use the joystick for everything) and I had to replace the oxygen sensor after the catalytic converter (it's a CA emissions boat).
I have rebuilt the upper half of the plugs this year as they were tight as hell previously, and added locking clips for the plugs as well.
But in general it's been a great boat -- only issue more generally is that the Potomac is so filled with garbage etc that renters are always sucking stuff up -- all things considered I probably would not have purchased the boat knowing what I know now but that's life.
That oxygen sensor experience was pretty instructive for me -- I called probably 20 places to find the last sensor available in the country at the time and just barely got it in there to make that check engine light go away.
So this brings me to my question:
If you had about $1,000 to spend solely to stock the most critical replacement parts to have sitting on the shelf, what would you buy? Unlike a traditional boat (I have a couple of those, too) there just doesn't seem to be that many things to replace on this thing...
I think I'm going to get a set of replacement impellers but beyond that, if "uptime" was the name of the game, what are the most critical items you'd want to have an extra of?
I have a 2015 242 Limited S that I bought as a 2nd owner a year ago -- a doctor down in South Carolina owned it for the first four years and I got it at just 30 hours of usage. It was in pretty good to great shape.
I live up here in Washington, DC and have been putting the boat on Boatsetter, which is a peer-to-peer boat sharing platform that works just like airbnb. They provide the marketing, billing and insurance and I provide the boat, day-of customer service, and maintenance.
Due to COVID and people wanting to get out of the house and onto the water -- demand has been off the charts -- the number of rentals in 2020 has been about 4-5x higher than the last half of last season that I had the boat on the platform. On a Saturday, it's not unusual to have three bookings that have the boat out from 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
So what I'm getting at is -- keeping the boat maintained/healthy/available for rentals is super important and an area of intense focus for me.
The boat's now just over 300 hours in my year of ownership across 89 rentals -- only major issues have been that the majority of the touchscreen functionality of the Connext has conked out (just the top buttons on the screen along the top still happen to work but can't touch anywhere else -- gotta use the joystick for everything) and I had to replace the oxygen sensor after the catalytic converter (it's a CA emissions boat).
I have rebuilt the upper half of the plugs this year as they were tight as hell previously, and added locking clips for the plugs as well.
But in general it's been a great boat -- only issue more generally is that the Potomac is so filled with garbage etc that renters are always sucking stuff up -- all things considered I probably would not have purchased the boat knowing what I know now but that's life.
That oxygen sensor experience was pretty instructive for me -- I called probably 20 places to find the last sensor available in the country at the time and just barely got it in there to make that check engine light go away.
So this brings me to my question:
If you had about $1,000 to spend solely to stock the most critical replacement parts to have sitting on the shelf, what would you buy? Unlike a traditional boat (I have a couple of those, too) there just doesn't seem to be that many things to replace on this thing...
I think I'm going to get a set of replacement impellers but beyond that, if "uptime" was the name of the game, what are the most critical items you'd want to have an extra of?
