ezmobee
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Hello everyone, long time no see. Been away from the site for a while but I'm back and I've got a "new" boat. We had some issues with the motor on the Starcraft last season and weren't able to get it running right. That coupled with the fact that it really gets beat around by the wakes on the lake we frequent prompted my wife to give me permission to upgrade. So in typical 2-foot-itis fashion, I got a 20'. It's a 2002 20' Hydra-Sports dual console with a 200HP Yamaha HPDI motor. I chose this boat because it has a 200 when most equivalent boats have a 150. It's a saltwater model which is tough to find in my area so I had to drive a good bit down to eastern shore MD. It's also rare to find one that wasn't bottom painted which is perfect for us since it won't sit in our slip for more than a couple days at a time and I definitely don't want to remove or maintain bottom paint. The motor has very low hours, under 300. That's the good. The bad is that although this boat wasn't abused, it wasn't exactly pampered either. So I have pretty big list of small fixes to complete before we take it up to our seasonal campsite the beginning of May. We only had it out a couple times before winter but it ran well, hauled a%$ and handled the chop very well. We're all very pleased with it.
The crazy part is that I still have the Starcraft and that's with spousal permission and practically encouragement. The final picture is of both boats docked. I'm still going to throw a few more parts at the 'ol Evinrude to try to get it running right. It's momentarily dropping a cylinder at speed. I've tried swapping 2 new coils around and swapping in a "known good" powerpack to no avail. I'm going to buy two more coils and one or two powerpacks and give it some more tries. The reality is that it will mainly be used for fishing now and it's perfectly fine for that even it's current state. We'll see how it goes owning two boats. The Starcraft is better set up for bass fishing with the front and rear fishing seats and bow mount trolling motor although there's a livewell in the HydraSports. If it becomes a burden to own both, I'll sell the Starcraft.
I have a thread up in the Yamaha section if anyone has any input on the maintenance of an HPDI.
The crazy part is that I still have the Starcraft and that's with spousal permission and practically encouragement. The final picture is of both boats docked. I'm still going to throw a few more parts at the 'ol Evinrude to try to get it running right. It's momentarily dropping a cylinder at speed. I've tried swapping 2 new coils around and swapping in a "known good" powerpack to no avail. I'm going to buy two more coils and one or two powerpacks and give it some more tries. The reality is that it will mainly be used for fishing now and it's perfectly fine for that even it's current state. We'll see how it goes owning two boats. The Starcraft is better set up for bass fishing with the front and rear fishing seats and bow mount trolling motor although there's a livewell in the HydraSports. If it becomes a burden to own both, I'll sell the Starcraft.
I have a thread up in the Yamaha section if anyone has any input on the maintenance of an HPDI.
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