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Guess it depends on your family, and the captains desire to deploy it. We use ours every time we go out and eat on the boat (which is pretty much every trip). Everyone congregates under the huge bimini (AKA Batwing) to get out of the NC sun and eat in the shade.
I'm collecting parts to add a table/grill to my '17 AR190. Basically want it on the swim platform so I have a place to grill that isn't IN the boat. Going to use the table mount and leg with a custom bracket. I'm going to add a mount in the cockpit as well for a table.
There's a checkbox for a glovebox on the feature list so it's still there. Probably behind that cushion as somebody said.
Word is $990 for the package including a wakesurf board and rope.
Rev's your heart has been used across all Yamaha product lines for a few years. We may not have seen it in the watercraft lines until now, but it is not new.
They also raised the capacity from 1240 lbs to 1600 lbs which means you can put more ballast in it without going over the official weight. (Or you can have 8 200 lb passengers vs. 8 155 lb passengers.)
Be sure you reinforce the back of the table receiver with a metal plate to help distribute the load across the surface especially if you plan to use a grill. A buddy has that on his 19' swim deck but always scared to use it because it's feels weak in he side of the fiberglass.
They are absorbing the cost somewhere else in the boat or spreading it out to people that don't buy the package. AKA Price increase
Heck yes, Yamaha now understands their customers are not all Gym-going 25 year olds!! Woo Woo, 6-240lb adults and a couple big dogs!!
I agree as well, but until they have any considerable amount of new carry overs, they are pricing what the market will bear. It's disappointing, but good business on their part. What get's me is the naming convention does not change for these models. Which makes sense, since they are not major changes that would justify it. The issue is the guy with a 10 year old 242, thinking it was a $70K boat when new. It makes the used market just crazy with a few boats priced correctly, and piles of them over inflated as they are basing their value on the cost of a new boat with the same/similar name.
Exactly, I hear what you are saying. So it's obvious, they were not shooting for you as a target market. There is no real reason to make you want to upgrade. And why would you, you have a great boat. Unlike cars/trucks, which so many folks replace every 3 years or so, boat owners may tend to get more years out of this purchase. I am making a horrible generalization of course. But you get the idea. They never want to be in the position of you buying a new boat, and then spending thousands in the aftermarket to make it usable based on previous owners experience. So they truly did address many items, without making the current owners feel bad about their decision.
Older boats aren’t going to go up in value, but will hold their values a little better. New model cars increase in price each year too while older ones depreciate. Some just depreciate a lot slower.
Recreational boats are by definition a luxury item but the good news is that there's a robust used market which means there's a boat for everybody who wants one. If Yamaha is really pricing too high and not satisfying some demographic then others will come in to capture that lower end at some point.