Holy Crap, I got a new BOAT!!!!

[Jetboat_Long Island]

I Feel your pain about a long winter! I bought my new 2024 222SD Sept 19th, did a quick walk through when I closed on it, then right into storage. I’m counting the long days until mid April here in NY! BUT . I did save $5,000 on the final price at the time of sale.

 

[Fishbehavin]

Beautiful boat! Welcome!

 

[BumbleBee255]

Well, finally got the boat out of my barn (4 miles away)! I started to take care of a few things.

1 - Fixed anchor locker drain. Re-located the anchor hold-down latches to fit my anchor.
2 - Installed anchor assembly.
3 - Resealed transducer (very poorly installed from factory. would have leaked for sure).
4 - Mounted VHF radio.
The antenna mounting location has me baffled. I don't want to just slap the mount on the roof and add to the clearance ht.
How is everyone passing the antenna wire into the hardtop?
I'm assuming the random electrical plug laying behind the hardtop access cover is for the radio? Need to test it.
5 - Put on/took off the Yamaha factory cover. (very nice cover, but need 3 hands to install!)
I think, like others have said, my rear anti-pooling poles are messed up. Straps don't lay out right.
6 - Fixed the poorly angled mounts for the trailers ratchet straps.
7 - Adjusted many of the door latches.
8 - Drank my first beer on the boat......
9 - Vacuumed out all the crap from Yamaha assembly (found enough hardware to build another boat).
10 - Cleaned up first spilt beer....

Many more things to do today to get ready for the water. I will get some pics of what I have done.

I hope to take it out for the first time next week sometime!! Scared/Excited to get it in the water and start the break-in.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Well, finally got the boat out of my barn (4 miles away)! I started to take care of a few things.

1 - Fixed anchor locker drain. Re-located the anchor hold-down latches to fit my anchor.
2 - Installed anchor assembly.
3 - Resealed transducer (very poorly installed from factory. would have leaked for sure).
4 - Mounted VHF radio.
The antenna mounting location has me baffled. I don't want to just slap the mount on the roof and add to the clearance ht.
How is everyone passing the antenna wire into the hardtop?
I'm assuming the random electrical plug laying behind the hardtop access cover is for the radio? Need to test it.
5 - Put on/took off the Yamaha factory cover. (very nice cover, but need 3 hands to install!)
I think, like others have said, my rear anti-pooling poles are messed up. Straps don't lay out right.
6 - Fixed the poorly angled mounts for the trailers ratchet straps.
7 - Adjusted many of the door latches.
8 - Drank my first beer on the boat......
9 - Vacuumed out all the crap from Yamaha assembly (found enough hardware to build another boat).
10 - Cleaned up first spilt beer....

Many more things to do today to get ready for the water. I will get some pics of what I have done.

I hope to take it out for the first time next week sometime!! Scared/Excited to get it in the water and start the break-in.

Love all of it except the spilled beer LOL!

 

[BumbleBee255]

Are these the crap tires everyone is talking about?

 

[Babin Farms]

Are these the crap tires everyone is talking about?

The Carlisle tires are usually what you hear about. If those are new I’d run them for a couple years before replacing. How far are you normally trailering? If not far I’d definitely run them.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Mine came with a Carlisle tires… looks like those are hecho en chino… and I do not see a R designation on the side wall,… I do see they were made in May of 2023.

Having run the Carlisle’s and the Goodyear endurance tires, I’d run these tires for a bit while you look around for maybe a Memorial Day sale on the Goodyears.. unless you just want to get it over with and move on.

@Babin Farms makes some good points there.. I trailer short and long distance… I ran my Carlisle’s until they went out of round and were shaking like mad.

If those tires are not balanced at the very least take them and get them balanced.

 

[BumbleBee255]

Welp, just performed the maiden voyage!! Great day! Had some small issues. Super hard starting for both engines, but finally got them both running. I assume it was because they haven't been started since assembly. And the Simrad/transducer refused to show water depth. It may be because I didn't set it up correctly (may start a new thread if this doesn't produce some fixes). Performed the correct break-in and even added some heat cycle (cool downs) in there. This thing is great!!! One thing I wanted to say,,, I have read here and in other sites that the Helm Master doesn't perform "crabbing" or side shift well, Wrong!! This thing walks to the side perfectly! You may need to correct your "yaw" every 10 - 12 feet, but it works GREAT! It's not going to move at 2-3 mph, but it shouldn't, it's for small maneuvers. And,,, It hauls A$$! 58mph! Love the engine sound. Sounds like power to me. On off trailer was like butter. No leaks. Very small amount of water in the clean out ports, and about a quart of water came out of the drain plug when back on the trailer. Happy camper!! AND,,, my wife didn't go with me, so, WIN, WIN in my book!! Don't tell her i said that....

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

When you say the engines were hard to start, do you mean they’d start but then quit running? What was the ambient air temp when you started them?

Sounds like you put about five or six hours on it today? 58 mph is moving right along !

Check your Simrad and make sure your transducer is enabled. If you mess around with the Simrad on the trailer and the transducer is on or pinging, I’d limit it to no more than 30 minutes lest the transducer get too hot. If you can find how to turn the transducer off then do that if you’re not in the water and you want to play around with the Simrad.

Glad your first outing was a success!

 

[BumbleBee255]

Yes, start and fire once or twice then die. Temp was right around 70. As far as the transducer goes, I think I’m going to do a factory reset on the Simrad and then let it reconnect to all of the components again. Does anyone know what brand and model transducers are on these FSH boats? I was also told that depth doesn’t show on certain screens.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Yes, start and fire once or twice then die. Temp was right around 70. As far as the transducer goes, I think I’m going to do a factory reset on the Simrad and then let it reconnect to all of the components again. Does anyone know what brand and model transducers are on these FSH boats? I was also told that depth doesn’t show on certain screens.

@TeenGee and @MilesPrower have a lot of know how on these Simrad MFD’s.

So that start scenario is common I think, it certainly is with my engines. It usually happens when there is a big change in the previous operating conditions compared to the new start up conditions. If the previous running conditions were hot the ECU will have pulled the fuel back to match those conditions. When you go to start the engines initially the ECU still thinks it’s where it was at, from what I understand the ECU will batch fire the injectors on a cold start but there is no “cold start” aka fuel enriched cycle until the engine warms up. To compound this, the engines are under load when you start them in the water.

One thing you could try is to turn the ignitions on before you launch the boat, like you’re floating, this may let the ECU read the MAP (manifold absolute pressure), IAT (intake air temperature), ECT (engine coolant temperature) sensors and change the fuel delivery plot before the first start up of the day, that depends on how the ECU is programmed to behave once it’s energized. On my fuel injected dirt bike, I bump the starter and this initiates a fuel pump run of a few seconds then stops, as well as waking up the ECU, most of the time the engine will fire and stay running if I do that. So perhaps even bump the starters before you launch to wake things up? When my friend is with me and he’s in the boat when we launch, I’ll pause just before putting the transom in the water to let him start the engines, once they’re running he gives me a thumbs up and then I launch the boat with a gentle push to get off the trailer.

 

[CastawayRK]

Lack of depth reading happens on mine randomly - the Simrad "pauses" itself. Temp still displays. Make sure the echosounder screen is selected by tapping on it if you have split screen. Go into Settings then "Other" or "Advanced" settings (I forget which) scroll down and if you see "Pause" checked uncheck it. Mine pauses itself randomly. I started a thread on it but nobody seems to know why.
Congrats on the Boat!
Cheers

 

[BumbleBee255]

Thanks for the replies! I will try both of the above the next time I go out. I was just checking the weather forecast, and we will be getting a couple of nights at or just below freezing. Should I be concerned? Should I fire up the engines for a few seconds to blow the exhaust cooling water out?

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Thanks for the replies! I will try both of the above the next time I go out. I was just checking the weather forecast, and we will be getting a couple of nights at or just below freezing. Should I be concerned? Should I fire up the engines for a few seconds to blow the exhaust cooling water out?

How long will it be below freezing? If it’s only going to be a couple hours I wouldn’t worry about it, there’s a lot of water in those water locks. You may want to make sure the raw water wash down system is pumped out out.

If you’re gonna blow out the exhausts I’d put the engines on a hose and warm them up for at least five mins before rapping them a few times. Remember, engine on, water on, water off, engine off.