Wade Guisbert
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 36
- Reaction score
- 15
- Points
- 57
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2014
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 24
When I bought my boat used, a member from Jetboaters came along to help evaluate. He noticed the steering was stiff. I didn't mind too much, he suggested that I buy a steering cable that way, If a repair was needed I would have it on hand.
At the end of the boating season last year, I sucked up a dock line into BOTH impellers. Somehow that led to the cable to the buckets to break, and for the throttle to not work very well.
I waited till this spring to take my sx240 to the marina, otherwise I would have had to pay winter storage at marina rates (I shrink wrap my own boat and park it some little old ladies lot for $100 over the winter)
I left the boat with the marina in May, and since I was taking the boat to be repaired and had a replacement steering cable, I had them put that on, WHAT A DIFFERENCE!
They also did whatever was necessary to fix the throttle, and they replace the cable that operated the control buckets.
I live in Pennsylvania and have a vacation home on the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. 500 miles! I got the boat back when I went up in the beginning of July. They fixed it, and it runs great! The steering is so much more responsive, and the boat functions as I would expect.
In the past I have had work done at a different marina that charged me $1200 to fix a trim tab for the outboard on a Tracker Targa, and it lasted two weeks. I towed the boat home with a laundry list of things needing done, including the non-functional trim-tab. That bill came to $285 including the other stuff on the laundry list, after 7 years it still works great.
I appreciate that these people make most of their money during the tourist season, I'm OK with that. I expect to pay a premium so as to not have to tow my boat on a 1000 mile round trip. I estimate towing a boat those 1000 miles would cost me $200 more than the family car. Plus the wear and tear on my 15 year old Silverado 1500.
So...............I paid $1,800 U.S. Whaddya think?
At the end of the boating season last year, I sucked up a dock line into BOTH impellers. Somehow that led to the cable to the buckets to break, and for the throttle to not work very well.
I waited till this spring to take my sx240 to the marina, otherwise I would have had to pay winter storage at marina rates (I shrink wrap my own boat and park it some little old ladies lot for $100 over the winter)
I left the boat with the marina in May, and since I was taking the boat to be repaired and had a replacement steering cable, I had them put that on, WHAT A DIFFERENCE!
They also did whatever was necessary to fix the throttle, and they replace the cable that operated the control buckets.
I live in Pennsylvania and have a vacation home on the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. 500 miles! I got the boat back when I went up in the beginning of July. They fixed it, and it runs great! The steering is so much more responsive, and the boat functions as I would expect.
In the past I have had work done at a different marina that charged me $1200 to fix a trim tab for the outboard on a Tracker Targa, and it lasted two weeks. I towed the boat home with a laundry list of things needing done, including the non-functional trim-tab. That bill came to $285 including the other stuff on the laundry list, after 7 years it still works great.
I appreciate that these people make most of their money during the tourist season, I'm OK with that. I expect to pay a premium so as to not have to tow my boat on a 1000 mile round trip. I estimate towing a boat those 1000 miles would cost me $200 more than the family car. Plus the wear and tear on my 15 year old Silverado 1500.
So...............I paid $1,800 U.S. Whaddya think?