New '20 AR240 owner - ideas for mods?

[Julian]

We love this topic on the forum.....we call it....."Lets spend other people's money!". It is about the only complaint I've ever heard about the forum.....it can be costly when you see all these mods that people do and you want them too!!!!

Here is my mod list on my 242X (this is also linked in my Signature):

• Xintek Fume Detector with blower control - my favorite safety mod
• 60" CE Smith Guide posts for trailer (needed these brackets to make them fit)
• 48" pads for guide posts
• Garmin GPSMAP 541 (now replaced with a Garmin Echomap Plus 94SV)
• Garmin Transducer mount and installation
• RAM mount for GPS
• 4 New Taylor Made blue swirl fenders and 4 blue fender lines
• 4 new dock lines
• New Anchor line (x2 now...since I donated one to Zeus in Bimini)
• Deluxe Yamaha mooring cover
• Vinyl boat name (dimensions for my boat) from doityourselflettering.com
• Jetboaters.net spare tire cover (had to give the old one away to the new owner!)
• Stoltz bow roller
• 2 Dual USB charging ports (one at helm, one at passenger chair)
• 2 Blue Sea ST Blade fuse blocks-one for behind the helm, one for the battery compartment
• Wet Sounds HT-4 Amplifier for mid cabin speakers and also connected the sound bar too! (also covered some in this thread) -eliminating the speakers in series stopped the amp from cutting out!
• Pair of JL MX 650 Speakers for the mid cabin.
• Blue Sea Systems Common 150A BusBar with Four Terminal of 20 1/4-Inch Studs with Cover, & lots of wire, ring connectors, and fuses!
• Helm storage Rod for hanging life jackets
• Target garbage can for copilot bungee spot
• 2 Flag poles and holders for the tower (Kwik Tek FWT-1 Wakeboard Tower Flag Holder)
• Mesh pocket organizers for storage closet
• 2nd table leg that I insert the grill into on the stern
• Guest Dual bank onboard charger
• Cable wrap to make cable runs look stock
• Paper towel holder in storage area
• 2 Amarine-made Stainless Tournament Style Clamp on Fishing Rod Holder for Rails 1-1/4" to 2"
• 2 Amarine stainless gunnel rod holders (30 degree...I'd go 15 next time)
• 25 Watt Standard Horizon Explorer GX 1600 marine radio, and Shakespeare Stainless Steel Quickconnect rail mount antenna - photos here.
• External VHF Speaker
• Portapotti (never been used...hope it stays that way!)
• Made my own windshield/Rainshield...and it got tested in Ft. Lauderdale and worked well!
• Stern Seadek added to cover more of the stepping points than stock.
• Inexpensive Ballast bags from Aerial ( I have their 500lb bags too)

 

[Karma_Train]

You might want to run a larger power supply line to the helm if your going to run amps later on. A small kingsford Kaddy works great for trash, nothing blows out.

Totally agree on the power run - I'll likely run a 2/0 or 4/0 dedicated run for amps later on.

 

[\\\Wolverine///]

• Wake tower flag holder from Tower Flags

@Karma_Train
Hadn't discovered these yet. When you get them would love to see a photo? Going to buy their screw in poles for the holders as well?

 

[Karma_Train]

@Karma_Train
Hadn't discovered these yet. When you get them would love to see a photo? Going to buy their screw in poles for the holders as well?

For sure! I've been working with Ian over there and he can custom fabricate for most model years and manufacturers. I picked up the screw in flag pole too.

 

[Karma_Train]

We love this topic on the forum.....we call it....."Lets spend other people's money!". It is about the only complaint I've ever heard about the forum.....it can be costly when you see all these mods that people do and you want them too!!!!

Here is my mod list on my 242X (this is also linked in my Signature):

• Xintek Fume Detector with blower control - my favorite safety mod
• 60" CE Smith Guide posts for trailer (needed these brackets to make them fit)
• 48" pads for guide posts
• Garmin GPSMAP 541 (now replaced with a Garmin Echomap Plus 94SV)
• Garmin Transducer mount and installation
• RAM mount for GPS
• 4 New Taylor Made blue swirl fenders and 4 blue fender lines
• 4 new dock lines
• New Anchor line (x2 now...since I donated one to Zeus in Bimini)
• Deluxe Yamaha mooring cover
• Vinyl boat name (dimensions for my boat) from doityourselflettering.com
• Jetboaters.net spare tire cover (had to give the old one away to the new owner!)
• Stoltz bow roller
• 2 Dual USB charging ports (one at helm, one at passenger chair)
• 2 Blue Sea ST Blade fuse blocks-one for behind the helm, one for the battery compartment
• Wet Sounds HT-4 Amplifier for mid cabin speakers and also connected the sound bar too! (also covered some in this thread) -eliminating the speakers in series stopped the amp from cutting out!
• Pair of JL MX 650 Speakers for the mid cabin.
• Blue Sea Systems Common 150A BusBar with Four Terminal of 20 1/4-Inch Studs with Cover, & lots of wire, ring connectors, and fuses!
• Helm storage Rod for hanging life jackets
• Target garbage can for copilot bungee spot
• 2 Flag poles and holders for the tower (Kwik Tek FWT-1 Wakeboard Tower Flag Holder)
• Mesh pocket organizers for storage closet
• 2nd table leg that I insert the grill into on the stern
• Guest Dual bank onboard charger
• Cable wrap to make cable runs look stock
• Paper towel holder in storage area
• 2 Amarine-made Stainless Tournament Style Clamp on Fishing Rod Holder for Rails 1-1/4" to 2"
• 2 Amarine stainless gunnel rod holders (30 degree...I'd go 15 next time)
• 25 Watt Standard Horizon Explorer GX 1600 marine radio, and Shakespeare Stainless Steel Quickconnect rail mount antenna - photos here.
• External VHF Speaker
• Portapotti (never been used...hope it stays that way!)
• Made my own windshield/Rainshield...and it got tested in Ft. Lauderdale and worked well!
• Stern Seadek added to cover more of the stepping points than stock.
• Inexpensive Ballast bags from Aerial ( I have their 500lb bags too)

@Julian This is an awesome list! What I love most about this forum is how awesome and welcoming the whole community is! It's been a gold mine of info as I look to get the boat ready for summer.

 

[PJ73]

 

[Karma_Train]

2020 nav is also pretty useless. Might be nice to have on an unknown lake, but for actual navigational duties, nope. Reminds me of what auto navigation was when they first came out.

One nice thing about our situation is I know the chain so well that it's rare that we use nav anyway - mostly it's a "now where was that channel opening again" helper than anything, plus the occasional depth chart consultation. I think I'll stick with stock to start, but if it's not working out I'll look into some sort of in-dash mount to take up some of the empty space to the left of the 7" Connext.

 

[agannole93]

I bought a danforth anchor to put in the anchor well, it was too small, so because I needed another anchor, I purchased a box style anchor. Will be testing that out soon. You may consider some stretchy dock lines - I've got four of these and they work really slick when docking for an hour at a restaurant. Another hack I found was go to your local big box hardware store and look for land anchors. Buy the tallest ones you can get and you can use those to screw into the sand at a sandbar and run your stretchy dock lines to them. Nice, easy way to keep the boat secured, and cheaper than the $100 per anchor kits on Amazon.

Amazon.com : AIRHEAD AHDL-4 Bungee Dockline 4 Feet : Dock Lines And Rope : Sports & Outdoors

Amazon.com : AIRHEAD AHDL-4 Bungee Dockline 4 Feet : Dock Lines And Rope : Sports & Outdoors

www.amazon.com

@anmut do you find the 4' lines are long enough? Looking at a couple of these for our 232 but can't decide between 4 and 5 footers