Matt Phillips
Jetboaters Captain
- Messages
- 1,076
- Reaction score
- 701
- Points
- 217
- Location
- Lake Tahoe
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2017
- Boat Model
- 242X E-Series
- Boat Length
- 24
Memorial Day ship would be tight as I want to install the following weekend!


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Weekend after, unfortunately as the boat doesn’t come out of hibernation until Memorial Day itself
Yeah...since I primarily boat up in Lake Tahoe (6200 feet), anything much before Memorial Day runs a strong risk of freezing temps. So I bring the boat at Memorial Day, go on a camping trip at a low-level lake, and then put it in Tahoe for the Summer about the middle of June. There is stays until Labor Day when we bring it back down and go on a couple more trips in the fall before it gets cold again. In that short session, we still manage to put 60-80 hours on it each season.
It was mentioned in a post, that you will need to call and there is a small up charge for Red or Blue.@JetBoatPilot for those that pre-ordered will there be a way to select which color we want?
Definitely....I'm in South Lake and at the Beach & Harbor Assn.
Tahoe is a Great Lake and very beautiful...definitely a bucket list lake to boat on. It can get busy though with lots of boat swell, and wind.
Make sure to look into how expensive the decontamination and inspection fees are. It's $95 for the sticker and $40 decontamination fee going both in and out. Otherwise a really cool lake. We watched a 28 foot Searay sink off Zephyr Cove when we were there. The owner had attached the anchor to the stern so it couldn't shift with the heavy waves and wind.I feel like Tahoe needs to be on my bucket list