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I had the opportunity to test drive the new FX boats at the tourney today.

 

I already am a Skeeter guy so I tried to keep my mind open on this. But I gotta tell you the throttle response is incredible! Now Four Strokes are supposed to have a butt load of Torque and this one does not disappoint at all. The top speed I got with the 20 foot boat was 75+ and the 21 footer 74.4. That was with 2 people and in the 21 foot boat it was me 250 and Alex 305lbs. So it was loaded a bit.

 

I was worried about the top speed in these boats being they are four strokes but that just left the building. Hole shot, throttle response and top speed all are better than my boat (05' ZX-250). I was completely impressed with these boats. Now all I need is money!

 

Anyway thanks to Jeff and Bob for letting my crazy ass drive them around.

 

 

Mike  

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Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to come out and drive the new hulls and Yamaha f250 SHO's and thanks for your accessment of the boats and motor. I gave approximately 20 demo rides to various anglers and all seems to agree with your results although load conditions may have varied a bit. Best speeds I got was 77 on the 21fx and 79 mph on the 20fx with full fuel and 4 batteries. Thanks again for your feed back. Sorry my wife won't let me loan you the money.
Those are awesome numbers Mike, looks like you're going to have to make about 10,000 trolling motor nuts to get that bad boy :)
Good stuff Shawn! Man would I love to buy one! Guess I should not have bought my new truck last year. Damn it!
what is the first years maintenance schedule on the new yamaha four stroke
now is that for the standard four stroke yamaha or the sho four stroke?

daniel iwamoto(bassboattech) said:
20 hours,break in oil and filter change, after that 100 hours or every year which ever comes first

Ryan Gates said:
what is the first years maintenance schedule on the new yamaha four stroke
So are you guys going to be able to do warranty work on any motors?

daniel iwamoto(bassboattech) said:
20 hours,break in oil and filter change, after that 100 hours or every year which ever comes first

Ryan Gates said:
what is the first years maintenance schedule on the new yamaha four stroke
THE REASON I AM ASKING WAS CUZ I AM THINKING OF PURCHASING A Z 521 WITH A SHO 250 WHAT DOES THE SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE COST ROUGHLY? sorry hit the caps button by accident

daniel iwamoto(bassboattech) said:
ryan, this is for four stroke models, merc,yamaha,honda ect.(sho included)
Ryan Gates said:
now is that for the standard four stroke yamaha or the sho four stroke?

daniel iwamoto(bassboattech) said:
20 hours,break in oil and filter change, after that 100 hours or every year which ever comes first

Ryan Gates said:
what is the first years maintenance schedule on the new yamaha four stroke
I really wanted to test drive that Skeeter 21FX and the Triton21X3, and compare them to my TR196, but can't afford to upgrade this year, so held off. Afraid that If I had driven that Skeeter 21 FX, it would have become an obession. From the reports and speaking with others who did drive the FX series, it sounds simply amazing!


Any other input or reports from the test drives?

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