New to Jet Boats and this site!

[Charnldc]

Hello fellow jetboaters, as a newbie jet boater, I'm certainly not new to boating. However, my goal joining is that I can quickly obtain a lot of great advice and experience from all of you! Ill will be taking position of a Yamaha 195 Sport FSH on the 28th, seems like a good fit for my boating needs and was wondering if anyone has an advice, opinions, and/or suggestions about this purchase? My next big issue is fitting it with stuff e.g. chart plotter, VHF, charts, spare parts etc. and best places to shop and not get robbed?

Thanks,

Dave C

 

[Julian]

Congrats and welcome. We are also happy to help you spend your money! LOL

 

[itsdgm]

Welcome to the site. Congrats on the new boat. I don’t have any experience with that model so I can’t offer advice. But have fun with it!!

 

[Rustynuts1770]

Hello fellow jetboaters, as a newbie jet boater, I'm certainly not new to boating. However, my goal joining is that I can quickly obtain a lot of great advice and experience from all of you! Ill will be taking position of a Yamaha 195 Sport FSH on the 28th, seems like a good fit for my boating needs and was wondering if anyone has an advice, opinions, and/or suggestions about this purchase? My next big issue is fitting it with stuff e.g. chart plotter, VHF, charts, spare parts etc. and best places to shop and not get robbed?

Thanks,

Dave C

Hey Dave,
I too am new to this site also, i Live in Australia - so i do apologize to the Group for clicking on the Florida Area but Queensland (Australia) was not on my options list when i signed up.
I have a 14.5Ft Regal Rush XR2 Mercury Sport Jet with very low hrs (112) it is a great boat and does our family very very well.
We live in an area that has a great deal of tidal sandflats, Mangroves, Rivers and freshwater lakes - Google Fraser Island - Hervey Bay - This is my home town Down Under in OZ..

Cheers Rusty
Rustynuts1770

 

[Charnldc]

Congrats and welcome. We are also happy to help you spend your money! LOL

Thanks Julian! lol

 

[Charnldc]

Hey Dave,
I too am new to this site also, i Live in Australia - so i do apologize to the Group for clicking on the Florida Area but Queensland (Australia) was not on my options list when i signed up.
I have a 14.5Ft Regal Rush XR2 Mercury Sport Jet with very low hrs (112) it is a great boat and does our family very very well.
We live in an area that has a great deal of tidal sandflats, Mangroves, Rivers and freshwater lakes - Google Fraser Island - Hervey Bay - This is my home town Down Under in OZ..

Cheers Rusty
Rustynuts1770

Hello Rusty,
I visited Melbourne back in my Navy days and fell in love with Australia! Amazing country, and the people there are so friendly, had a blast! Do you follow SLV on YouTube?

Cheers mate,

Dave C

 

[biffdotorg]

I think electronic choices are really based on how you will use it. For that very reason the big MFG's of GPS/Plotters offer more inland specialized and offshore specialized offerings.

For example, Navico makes Lowrance and Simrad. Here in Minnesota, Lowrance and Hummingbird are king. They are the top of the market for inland navigation and fish finding. Advanced bottom scanning etc. But the Simrad version with similar interface is geared more for advanced navigation of open waters, and integration with external system like Radar and auto pilot, tides, weather etc. Both great choices, but different.

Same goes for VHF radios. The most popular brands will many time integrate with your sonar/gps choice for utilizing GPS for safety. So watch for that. Assuming you are asking for VHF, so you may be offshore more than I. Our boat came from the SC coast, and has a Simrad and Uniden. The Simrad is somewhat overkill, but I love everything about it. And it does what we want to do.

As far as spare parts, that will mostly revolve around maintenance items. Oil change kit, spark plugs, Silicone spray for cleanout plugs and salt away for flushing after use. Maintenance will be a much higher priority than spares. As you truly can only replace so many things while on the water. A seatow subscription may be of more value.

Good luck!

 

[Dean P]

@Charnldc, @Rustynuts1770 to the forum. Tons of great information as well as members to help keep you on the water. Please share pics when you can; we all love pictures!!!

 

[jdkaeser]

These boats are pretty reliable, but if you plan to do a bunch of off shore with a single engine I'd get Sea Tow.

 

[Charnldc]

Great information and encouragement, thank you!!!

 

[boatman1975]

Congrats and welcome aboard!! I am a newbie too but love this site already.

 

[Charnldc]

Thank you! This is already an amazing forum regarding answers to concerns with a new 2021 Yamaha 195 Sport FSH!

My latest issues are; where to mount a Garmin transducer on this boat?

And why is water filling up the clean out tube?

Thanks in advance for any advice!!

DC

 

[Babin Farms]

Welcome!!

Water filling the cleanout tube is perfectly normal for our boats.

 

[Krats]

Hello fellow jetboaters, as a newbie jet boater, I'm certainly not new to boating. However, my goal joining is that I can quickly obtain a lot of great advice and experience from all of you! Ill will be taking position of a Yamaha 195 Sport FSH on the 28th, seems like a good fit for my boating needs and was wondering if anyone has an advice, opinions, and/or suggestions about this purchase? My next big issue is fitting it with stuff e.g. chart plotter, VHF, charts, spare parts etc. and best places to shop and not get robbed?

Thanks,

Dave C

Welcome there are a lot of resources on this forum. Some may get you out of a jam or help you do or fix something you've never had to do before. Most will help you spend your money ?.

 

[Charnldc]

BOAT...Break Out Another Thousand is already in full swing!! Thanks

 

[Charnldc]

Anyone else having issues with fuel gage accuracy or lack thereof? My 2021 Yamaha 195 FSH sport fuel gage will read 100% until about 75% or less is there a way to correct this concern?

 

[Babin Farms]

Fuel gauges are not perfect. They are just a general guidance of roughly how much fuel you have.

 

[Charnldc]

I get it, but can you imagine if our cars were as inaccurate? Seems the boating industry would become as good as the automobile industry?!?

 

[212s]

I get it, but can you imagine if our cars were as inaccurate? Seems the boating industry would become as good as the automobile industry?!?

Unless you can come up with a way to keep the fuel from sloshing around in the tank as you move over waves, you can't get a really accurate reading. Even people walking around on the boat will cause the weight distribution to change and perhaps the fuel to move and change the reading. Cars are typically level and stable most of the time, so the readings tend to be stable and accurate.

 

[Charnldc]

My point is my digital gage does not move at all until it suddenly drops to below 70%. Cars move around as well...