Gidday Mayal, Welcome to the Forum and thank christ there is another Aussie here. Now we will be able to talk some sense.!!
Thats a bloody long way to tow your boat! There are companies that put on plastic covers to keep stones from chipping the gel coat from your back tyres.
If you ask the dealer I am sure he will get that sorted for you. The boats that arrive here in Perth are just about always totally covered in white plastic, so perhaps yours will too.
As far as the qauges are concerned mine are Fariah ones with Mariah embossed on the speedo and rev counter and look really nice.
I have these gauges fitted as standard on my '06 model - Fuel, Volt meter, Speedo, Compass, Rev counter, Oil Pressure, Engine water temp, and Trim indicator. - Check out the pic I have attached.
2 gauges that are optional extra are the depth gauge and Hour meter.
I recommend getting the depth gauge fitted, with the lakes and rivers around here running aground can be easy to do.
Although with the 'standard' fittings, I am unsure of the new '08 models, I do have the brochure for '07 that was sent to me direct from Mariah in the states, so perhaps you can check with them.
www.mariah-boats.com - you will see my setup on that site too in the owners showcase section.
I know there is another SX18 identical to ours on the Gold Coast, cause when I was over there last year I was sitting at a set of traffic lights when the wife excitedly pointed it out to me. Bugger me if it wasnt the exact same as ours!!
When you do pick up your boat the Mercruiser manual says to keep to certain rev limits and speeds etc for the first 20 hours. I hope there will guys here who can let you know if this is correct and whether to strictly adhere to it. (I bought mine with about 35hrs on it so dont know if the previous owner did this or not).
If you are in a lake then your anchor rope shouldnt be fully used, just check to make sure that the end is tied off in the anchor well otherwise you might just loose the lot one day if you are in real deep water. I managed to check mine before making this mistake ( surprise surprise
) but my mate didnt!!
Have fun with your new boat, and yeah please post some pics for us to enjoy.
I spent 4 or five days on ours over the past 3 weeks, up rivers out on the Mandurah estuary, we also watched the Red Bull Air Race in Perth a couple of weeks ago on it. Last Saturday we went to Fremantle down the Swan River
and went out to lunch, it was fantastic - we had the boat up to 52 mph with 4 people on board, just hammering - awesome
Bayliners are a dime a dozen around here and I like to think of them as the Fords
of the boating world, where as the Mariahs are more like the Ferrari's.
Keep that in mind when people are asking about your new toy. They are as rare
as rocking horse s**t in Oz, and thats how we like it!!
Looking forward to your input on this great forum.
First Mariah
. There is some confusion in Aus about the standard dash instruments on the new model sx18 ( tacho, speed, fuel, ect, doe's anybody know for sure what instuments it comes with standard. Thanks for any help
Merria Christmas
