rigging of a new boat?

[timdan94]

For those of you who do this for a living how long does it take to rig a new mercury 115 fourstroke outboard on a new boat that came from the factory wired for mercury motor. I've been waiting since monday when the engine came in and I called today and they said they have about 2.5 more hours to get it rigged

 

[TOHATSU GURU]

Re: rigging of a new boat?

It depends on how "rigged" rigged is. If it was pre wired, instruments set and wired and the box and cables were pre run:

Engine de-crating, hoisting, mounting, attachment of everything at the engine, battery, PDI check list, actual test run, running down why it runs like crap, fixing why it runs like crap, bitching at boat manufacturer because they had a wire hooked up improperly, another test run, running it again for you so that you can actually see that it runs, explaining to you what a marvel of mechanical engineering you have bought, hooking it up to your car and watching you leave, wondering how long it will be before you come back in because it runs like crap again....About 8 hours for a kid with a little aptitude to do everything twice.

But, crap happens all the time on engines. Little things that throw a delay here and there. Most service departments will tell you 24-48 hours from when they have everything available. That way if they need some $1.00 part to finish it doesn't make them look stupid. Five day's means they either had something better to do, had a major problem with some aspect of it or decided they don't like you

 

[timdan94]

Re: rigging of a new boat?

Supposedly the boat was completely wired and all gauges were installed. They have been very busy, every time I was there they had customers around. I was just wondering because I ordered this boat with a 90hp fourstroke on april 10. They had a hard time getting both the boat and the motor.. They were ordered as a complete unit but the boat showed up with no motor. It took them more than a week and a half to hunt down a motor for it and could only find a 115. Unfortunately I can't pick it up until the 27 of july now.

 

[rodbolt]

Re: rigging of a new boat?

many years ago I was working at a dealership in Norfolk VA, we sold Mako and carolina skiff as well as mariner,suzuki,Force,Go-devil and mercruiser.
Mako had a special promotion package on a 24 mako,trailer and 200 mercury for 28K or so out the door.
customer came in in early may and ordered it and paid in full.
told us to go ahead and break it in when it arrived as his brother was comig home on leave jun 28th.
we got the hull and trailer in mid may.
about jun 20th,still no 200 merc from mako, the customer told us if we could not deliver it by the 28th he wanted his money back.
my boss called mako,again, and was told your a mariner dealer you order one.
about the 24th he next day aired a 200 mariner from atlanta so I could get it hung,makos rigging bugs de bugged and the engine broken in.
so it happens and its not always the dealerships fault.