Yes they are standard slide snaps that fit right into the windshield rail. Very easy to install. I did not want a permanent solution because 95% of the year I don’t carry this in the boat. I am sure you can find the snaps on iboats under the bimini hardware or the like.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Does nt Matter wrote:</div>
I am glad a few of you think it is funny.Keep drinking the Skeeter kool-aid. Every 1910 owner above has admitted they need a foil on a $50k plus brand new boat to get on plane.
1 person somehow found a way to fit an 8ft rod somewhere in this boat, yet everyone else admits it is too tight for their liking, or won’t fit. The problem isn’t getting rods in the holster, but a terrible design on getting them out. One way they either snag on the terrible rats nest of sloppy cabling or hoses, and the other you would need to take the back seat out or windshield off to get your rods out.
The other hilarious thing is when my trailer tire came off it’s axle and crossed into oncoming traffic. The trailer had less than 10 miles on it at this point.
I would gladly trade either of you for your used tin boat, cash or tow vehicle.
You might laugh now and be money ahead in the short term, but in the long run, I would have the last laugh.
Skeeter missed the mark on this one big time. I welcome anyone who thinks I am joking or is considering this lemon to take a ride with me.Of course if the wind blows, we won’t be going out and if we are trailering, you will need to sign a waiver.
Just curious what possessed you to buy the Skeeter in the first place. Your complaints sound just like a post from 2 years ago only it was on the MX1825. The guy’s dealer wouldn’t do a thing for him. Skeeter gave him a new boat but that didn’t cure his complaints either. Most of the complaints I see/hear about are on the ez loader trailers Skeeter uses. A good dealer is worth more to the boat buyer than any boat company.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Does nt Matter wrote:</div>
I am glad a few of you think it is funny.Keep drinking the Skeeter kool-aid. Every 1910 owner above has admitted they need a foil on a $50k plus brand new boat to get on plane.
1 person somehow found a way to fit an 8ft rod somewhere in this boat, yet everyone else admits it is too tight for their liking, or won’t fit. The problem isn’t getting rods in the holster, but a terrible design on getting them out. One way they either snag on the terrible rats nest of sloppy cabling or hoses, and the other you would need to take the back seat out or windshield off to get your rods out.
The other hilarious thing is when my trailer tire came off it’s axle and crossed into oncoming traffic. The trailer had less than 10 miles on it at this point.
I would gladly trade either of you for your used tin boat, cash or tow vehicle.
You might laugh now and be money ahead in the short term, but in the long run, I would have the last laugh.
Skeeter missed the mark on this one big time. I welcome anyone who thinks I am joking or is considering this lemon to take a ride with me.Of course if the wind blows, we won’t be going out and if we are trailering, you will need to sign a waiver.
Just curious what possessed you to buy the Skeeter in the first place. Your complaints sound just like a post from 2 years ago only it was on the MX1825. The guy’s dealer wouldn’t do a thing for him. Skeeter gave him a new boat but that didn’t cure his complaints either. Most of the complaints I see/hear about are on the ez loader trailers Skeeter uses. A good dealer is worth more to the boat buyer than any boat company.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Does nt Matter wrote:</div>
I am glad a few of you think it is funny.Keep drinking the Skeeter kool-aid. Every 1910 owner above has admitted they need a foil on a $50k plus brand new boat to get on plane.
1 person somehow found a way to fit an 8ft rod somewhere in this boat, yet everyone else admits it is too tight for their liking, or won’t fit. The problem isn’t getting rods in the holster, but a terrible design on getting them out. One way they either snag on the terrible rats nest of sloppy cabling or hoses, and the other you would need to take the back seat out or windshield off to get your rods out.
The other hilarious thing is when my trailer tire came off it’s axle and crossed into oncoming traffic. The trailer had less than 10 miles on it at this point.
I would gladly trade either of you for your used tin boat, cash or tow vehicle.
You might laugh now and be money ahead in the short term, but in the long run, I would have the last laugh.
Skeeter missed the mark on this one big time. I welcome anyone who thinks I am joking or is considering this lemon to take a ride with me.Of course if the wind blows, we won’t be going out and if we are trailering, you will need to sign a waiver.
Just curious what possessed you to buy the Skeeter in the first place. Your complaints sound just like a post from 2 years ago only it was on the MX1825. The guy’s dealer wouldn’t do a thing for him. Skeeter gave him a new boat but that didn’t cure his complaints either. Most of the complaints I see/hear about are on the ez loader trailers Skeeter uses. A good dealer is worth more to the boat buyer than any boat company.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Does nt Matter wrote:</div>
I am glad a few of you think it is funny.Keep drinking the Skeeter kool-aid. Every 1910 owner above has admitted they need a foil on a $50k plus brand new boat to get on plane.
1 person somehow found a way to fit an 8ft rod somewhere in this boat, yet everyone else admits it is too tight for their liking, or won’t fit. The problem isn’t getting rods in the holster, but a terrible design on getting them out. One way they either snag on the terrible rats nest of sloppy cabling or hoses, and the other you would need to take the back seat out or windshield off to get your rods out.
The other hilarious thing is when my trailer tire came off it’s axle and crossed into oncoming traffic. The trailer had less than 10 miles on it at this point.
I would gladly trade either of you for your used tin boat, cash or tow vehicle.
You might laugh now and be money ahead in the short term, but in the long run, I would have the last laugh.
Skeeter missed the mark on this one big time. I welcome anyone who thinks I am joking or is considering this lemon to take a ride with me.Of course if the wind blows, we won’t be going out and if we are trailering, you will need to sign a waiver.
Just curious what possessed you to buy the Skeeter in the first place. Your complaints sound just like a post from 2 years ago only it was on the MX1825. The guy’s dealer wouldn’t do a thing for him. Skeeter gave him a new boat but that didn’t cure his complaints either. Most of the complaints I see/hear about are on the ez loader trailers Skeeter uses. A good dealer is worth more to the boat buyer than any boat company.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Does nt Matter wrote:</div>
I am glad a few of you think it is funny.Keep drinking the Skeeter kool-aid. Every 1910 owner above has admitted they need a foil on a $50k plus brand new boat to get on plane.
1 person somehow found a way to fit an 8ft rod somewhere in this boat, yet everyone else admits it is too tight for their liking, or won’t fit. The problem isn’t getting rods in the holster, but a terrible design on getting them out. One way they either snag on the terrible rats nest of sloppy cabling or hoses, and the other you would need to take the back seat out or windshield off to get your rods out.
The other hilarious thing is when my trailer tire came off it’s axle and crossed into oncoming traffic. The trailer had less than 10 miles on it at this point.
I would gladly trade either of you for your used tin boat, cash or tow vehicle.
You might laugh now and be money ahead in the short term, but in the long run, I would have the last laugh.
Skeeter missed the mark on this one big time. I welcome anyone who thinks I am joking or is considering this lemon to take a ride with me.Of course if the wind blows, we won’t be going out and if we are trailering, you will need to sign a waiver.
Just curious what possessed you to buy the Skeeter in the first place. Your complaints sound just like a post from 2 years ago only it was on the MX1825. The guy’s dealer wouldn’t do a thing for him. Skeeter gave him a new boat but that didn’t cure his complaints either. Most of the complaints I see/hear about are on the ez loader trailers Skeeter uses. A good dealer is worth more to the boat buyer than any boat company.
Well that was me, and now it has been a few years later. I will say this my new Skeeter that came in was not right either. Though after another six months of the boat and trailer being shipped back to Skeeter and EZLoader and some intervention with Dean it is now what it should have been the first time.
The only way I would ever purchase another Skeeter is if I purchased it from a dealer such as SBC who has a proven track record of handling issues. My thoughts are Skeeter is not a turn key product, maybe some are, but my experience has been that they are not.
I am happy with my MX1825, it was a long road to get here though.
For anyone having issues with the side rod holster, the one thing that I have found is rod socks make it much easier to get the longer rods in and out.
Do you think the saltwater series II would be a good alternative for a 1825 running the F200? Considering the biggest difference between boats is the additional 2 feet and your added 100hp and weight. I was thinking maybe that 19 saltwater series might be a good rough water prop for the 1825. Thoughts?
Boy I don’t know where you guys fish at that you get ripped off so often, but around here you get caught messing with a mans gear you better be wearing a bullet proof vest.
Really i loved my little 2 stroke merc‘s. If you follow the startup procedure and change the plugs every year they run like a clock.
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Scrap the Ram and move to a large Johnny Ray.
Look luck with the boat issues.
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On your bilge pump make sure the pump itself on the back of your livewell is straight up and down. It mostly likely cockeyed and losing suction.
Well i am pretty sure if it is welded in place i could make it water tight and move all my emergency trailer stuff out of my truck and into the box.
Can it not be made water tight? Pretty useless to have a tool box that does not keep your tools dry.
We need a “like” button here. Glad to hear you got it figured out.
Venting is finished!
All I have to say is Noah built the ark with primitive tools, quicker than Skeeter/dealer are getting this done. Another week wasted with ineptness of a dealer who will not move unless the owner is in the building which they were out till Wednesday. Skeeter Chief of customer service who if worked a full week could have shipped the parts last Friday, but instead took off early and they waited till this week to ship, if that even happened.
This reminds me of when I was in the military and spent 28 days living in a hotel with my family on my dime because everyone needed to approve housing for me was out of town on back to back vacations. And nobody would move on anything till the next guy came back. That little episode cost me 3k out of pocket, plus the stress of living with a wife and 3 small children in a hotel while trying to go to work on a ship that got underway a lot.
Anyone considering a Skeeter should PM me, I will give you the unvarnished brutally frank truth about this company. I am not sponsored nor paid by anyone. Good dealer or bad dealer, you can not deny the inattention of the manufacture. The total lackadaisical attitude of Skeeter upper management. And the lack of quality control in Kilgore, TX.
Sounds to me like a used car salesman tactic, or a bad garage. Put on a non standard prop, then when you complain sell you your old prop for 150% of what it should be selling for. Or in your case 250% cause you should have never had to buy it in the first place.
For 60k on a tiller boat I would expect that thing to make me breakfast before I hit my first spot.
I would not mix them as a long term solution, the rest of your seals can be shot by this. But for the short term it will get you by.
If your planning on bleeding the system you might as well just replace the seal at the same time.
I agree the seastar hydraulic fluid is ultra expensive, the only property I see listed on the milspec for this fluid that makes it different than other is the fact that is rated for cold weather. If cold weather is not a concern for you I do not see any reason why you could not get away from using a less expensive hydraulic fluid. All of there hydraulic fluids they suggest are aviation milspec’s for the same reason.
Good Lord, $800 for a prop? That is absolutely insane.
Sounds like a head unit issue to me.
The battery is the weak point of this thing, for a black and white LCD that really does not need to be a battery hog it sure is short. You can buy spares from minkota for $10. Instead I installed a USB outlet in my boat.
I would think right after everyone is pulling there boats out for the winter.
Thanks, I needed to vent my frustrations and get some insight. My confidence is still pretty low. When i left the dealer i had not even spent 5 minutes looking over the boat in the prep bay. I wonder how much more i would have found if i spent more time and had it pulled out in the sun light.
I am going to talk to Mr. Young on monday and tell him they can deliver the boat to my house when it is ready. If it is not right they can haul it back on there dime. Will have to see how that goes.
I live in TN, my dealer is in Nashville. I will not go through all the issues I had with the first boat. But suffice it to say when I got to my breaking point with it I went on Skeeters facebook page and made a comment about how if they hired anyone that built boats with slightly better eye sight than Mr. Magoo they would be doing themselves a favor. I got a response, asking me to list the issues I was having. The next morning I sat down with a pot of coffee and listed them out, all of them.
Four days later I got a call from Mr. Young at Skeeter boats, he is there Chief of Customer Service. His first words to me were “How would you like a new boat?” I was pretty much blown away. The rest of our conversation centered around the quality issues I had faced and not having that experience again.
I did not take my first boat back to the dealer 154 miles away for it’s issues. Instead I would email/phone the issues to the dealer and back it up with pictures etc.. They would contact Skeeter and Skeeter would send me the parts to replace. Not a big deal, I have a 30 year retired USCG Master Chief mechanic to do my work. Anything he can’t do, I assure you the dealer can not do either.
To drive all the way out there to find the new boat did not match the invoice and with damage on it is unacceptable on every level and goes completely against the entire process and phone conversation I had with Mr. Young, who assured me this one would be the boat I should have had to begin with.
Dealer or no dealer, does not account for the fact that I have had less than acceptable boats from Skeeter. If these were 40k cars this company would be out of business long ago.
The part that gets me is when I think of quality on the water with outboards I think Honda, Yamaha, Merc, Evinrude. Skeeter being a Yamaha company is not doing the Yamaha brand any favors.
I hear what your saying. But the dealer was left out of this equation till the end. I have the invoice in my email from Mr. Young. The keel guard is in fact a factory installed option. I was told the boat had to be delivered to the dealer for rigging.
The dealer did not order this, Mr. Young did directly from his desk in Kilgore.
I am not a difficult person to deal with, i just expect to get what i paid for, and for it to be right.
And no my original problems went far deeper than some stains and pumps. It was enough that Skeeter felt the best way to handle them was to replace the boat.
The scratches if happened in transit would have had to been from a gremlin or animal that was shipped under the cover. They are on the gel coat under the wind shield in the bow area. This was not exposed in shipping.
I understand the hatches being adjusted, i was so frustrated with the dealers tech response i wanted to hit him.
The missing gauges, yeah i have an email from Robert Youngwith them in his hand asking me if they were the right ones (style).
Ineptness abounds, from a “Chief” of customer service. A Chief he is not. If he spent that last half a day visiting his shops and seeing what is going on there he might have much better appreciation for the issues people are having. I can’t be the only one.
Lets say the person who outfits there vessel with a different nav lights than what the manufacture put on there boat. And that person is subject to a safety boarding by either a USCG crew or a USCG Auxiliarist. And they ask to see there navigation lights energized. All they are looking for is the fact that they work, and provide the correct degrees of angle that is required for them. That is all. Now take the boat in the picture with what appears to be covered from the top navigation lights. I can almost promise those would end up on a written report and sent back to the CG sector office for review. At which time the owner of that vessel would most likely get a chance to explain why there lights are covered and have a chance to fix them. When the owner explains that it came from the factory this way. And hopefully the boarding officer has taken pictures and backs the owners story. Well then whoever made the boat gets a letter and a chance to explain how those lights are in fact within spec. Maybe the trolling motor has to be slid back for them to work, uncovering them? I have no clue. But there is not a boarding party out there that will ding you for changing the lights on your boat, as so long as you have functional correctly angled lights.
You can build your very own boat, and it can be a couple of logs lashed together with an outboard on it. You can set sail with your new boat and as long as you have all the prescribed safety equipment on board you are good to go. Lights, pfd’s, horn, fire extinguisher, throwable pfd etc… Just remember to also make sure you follow the rules of the road, and any local regulations for where you will be enjoying your time on the water.
Companies make boats all the time with screwed up designs etc.. They still have to follow a set of guidelines to do it. As manufacturing goes they are regulated, does not mean that they are always following the rules. Some are better than others. Usually lawsuits do not follow until tragedy occurs. I would not want to be in that vessel when it is ran over by something larger than it is at night because they could not see there bow lights. The stern light is great but without the bow lights it is extremely hard to tell which direction they are heading.
Well I am giving up on my Skeeter with the hopes they will buy it back, and this seems to be the closest thing Ranger makes to the MX line that I can find.
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It must have been Coast Guard approved to go on a production boat, but looks obstructed by the trolling motor to me…but I love the idea…
I like Ranger’s solution alot better though… Ranger Z521 Carbon
You can also see the bassboat trailer step, new jackstand and toolbox in the pic..
SBC – Could either the Skeeter or Ranger solution be installed on the MX series?
Just to clear up some misconceptions, the CG does not approve every boat design and configuration. What they do is define what requirements need to be met. All of these small vessels under 21 feet are hardly monitored at all. The individual components may be within the spec of the federal laws that are enforced by the CG. That in no way means they are actually CG approved. It is all marketing hype used by manufactures to make you the boater feel better and safer about what you are using and buying.
The picture you show is clearly does not fall into that category, if the bow lights are obstructed there are multiple issues with that design. Not something I would recommend anyone using.
By the way I am retired Coast Guard, I might just know a thing or two about this.
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When I purchased my skeeter with the f150 I did not buy a kicker. I do a lot of trolling and after a while I lost top end. I took it to my dealer and they said that I had carboned up the back side of the motor. They said run a bottle of ring free. It help a little but I still don’t get the top speed I used to. I also am looking at this package. Are there any changes on the f200 to prevent this? Or do I need the kicker.
I do not troll on the f150 a lot but I noticed after 30 hours (total) or so that I lost some top end as well. I chalked it up to the weather, additional weight in the boat etc. When I trolled on the 2 cycle I would change my plugs twice a season and keep a spare set in the boat. Also run seafoam through a tank every year. Keeping carbon out of an outboard mostly relies on running at WOT some as well to help blow out the carbon. If you spend a day trolling, you should spend time at WOT. Otherwise you might be better served with a kicker or just using your trolling motor.
If you add a little ring free or the like to your fuel that will help with carbon build up as well.
There wired wrong or a battery is dead.
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By all means tell us what you want to see! We have just completed our 2nd model year and the boat design itself was very customer driven.
For now you have the option of the 2013 or 2014 content.
Off the top of my head, some of these ideas are pretty much standard today (or will be soon) in most boats:* Built in Nav lights (like Ranger Z520 Carbon)
* A usable Bow console area (What’s the point of the current size plastic insert plate? it’s oversized for the plug-in and trim switch and not big enough for a flush mount option)
* Integrated measuring board
* Integrated tool storage/quick access location
* Some sort of daybox storage location for commonly used tools/lures
* Simple air flow fan system in storage compartments (new to FX series this year)
* Starter battery switch incase main goes dead, allows you to start from the trolling batteries (i beleive new this year to FX series?)
* Integrated Net storage location
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And the current tongue jack was not the right tool for the job.
My additions would be a better radio option and more space on the dash for electronics. The current one is very limited.
In my 2012 mx1825 I tried to get 7’3 in it, gave up cause I didn’t want broken tips and put my trolling rods that broke down in there
