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Enjoy your time out today. I can feel your passion and excitement all the way from Chicago. "Garage boating" huh? Now that is a new term to add to my thesaurus-I know...old school.
I use the bungee dock lines and I love them!
When I took my SX190 home from the dealer my cushions almost flew out twice in the highway. If you leave the walkthrough window closed its better. also after using them a bit they seem more secure.
Good eye! And yup they are awesome!
Good comment. You should always tow with the windshield closed.
More importantly...with the window open, seats can blow out of the boat and never be seen again.....
Yamaha should just give everyone hinged seats from the get-go years ago and not just the 24 footers. They address a lot of little details in the design of their boats that otherwise go unnoticed unless you own one of these boats, but they really missed a huge bonus by not having hinged seats. Hinges are not expensive! When they added it in 2015 on the 24' boats should have been added across the board IMHO. Then we wouldn't have to worry about blowing out expensive seat cushions in 2016.
Even the 24' boats have a free floating center cushion that could blow out....
I know the feeling. That funky spring that Yamaha uses on my glove box has everyone baffled on how to close it the first time they use it. Of course once I tell them how to collapse the spring they think that means judo chop to the spring thus slamming my dang glove box lid! I guess I need to add another Yamaha warning sticker that occupants may be tossed overboard if they slam my glove box!@haknslash Hinged seats do rock!!!! Now I just need to teach my family not to slam them!
I was looking at it and I think if we could find a really small gas strut you could secure it to the fiberglass using screws and then make a "foot" on the end that would attach to the glove box side. Maybe use some good 3M adhesive tape or something like quality hook and loop 3M Velcro to secure the foot so there wouldn't be any exposed screw heads or fasteners on the glove box lid. If it's not the slamming the gets me its my fingers end up taking the blow sometimes
. I have a SLA 3D printer in my office and I could design and print something I'm sure if we can source a short gas strut.