Cobalt Boats Forum

I have an R8 surf edition that did not have the RGB light option selected. The challenge I have is that the tower accent lights which were included are defaulting to blue. In Wisconsin there is a law that blue lights are reserved for police… kid you not, we got pulled over. The boat is on a high ...

Sorry for the delay in responding. I had a similar issue with our boat.

If you go through the Garmin screens, look for settings, and find GPS Antenna. My boat had two of them listed there.

The one the boat was setup for used to take a long time to lock on the satellites. I did two things to ...

What kind of issues have you had?

I have spent a bunch of time customizing mine but I have never had the surf settings disappear.

My screens now have a shortcut in the corner to bring up the Surf screens.

We have an R8S, not sure if these settings are best but typically just select the largest wave option in Garmin and set at 11.3. Seems to make everyone happy

Thanks, going to go with the Volvo.. first year with the Monsoon and not sure it makes sense to try out anything different than what worked earlier.

We are ordering a new R8 Surf in the next few days. We had an R8 Surf last year that had the Volvo with 380hp; was great. As we are ordering this new boat and it appears that there is an option for a 430 hp Monsoon engine.

I was going to upgrade to the 430 Volvo.. but are there any perspectives on ...

Thank you, super helpful. Will try the ballast settings you suggest,

I’ve been tweaking the surf setting on my R8S all summer and found the best wave is full ballasts, 11.3 mph, and +3 trim angle. You do need to turn off the Trim Assist. Effective for both right and left sides.


When you say “turn off trim assist”, what does that mean? Does that mean simply ...

Appreciate the inputs on the surf wave.

We have been going full ballast, -2 TPS, 11.1 on the port side and the wave seems decent but I am not really sure what perfect is yet.

I did fight with and I think “solve” two issues with the boat this weekend for surfing:
1) The water sports mode speed ...

Thanks, that is how I could get to the Nautique center bolt.

They said there were two options:
"· Have the pedestal returned for rework to disassemble and add a weld

· Send a replacement if we have one of the correct height in stock"


Hope that helps

My dealership did an alignment and got the wheel straight, unfortunately they didn't show or tell me the process. It was straight for a bit, now it appears to have drifted.

My expectation is that the wheel does move at different speeds based on prop rotation and torque so straight at high speed is ...

Agree, Cobalt is fixing it under warranty.

Overall they have been good to work with to fix things under warranty (which they should). That said, I had asked for it to be fixed prior and it wasn’t. I decided to do my own research and reach out to Springfield as I was unhappy with the first repair ...

I don’t know if a R4 is the same as an R8. That said, on my R8 there is a knob which can tighten to increase swivel resistance, that may help. For the lack of locking, check the cable. On my R8 it looks like a bike shifter cable that is attached to the pull lever and then a metal bar that inserts ...

I reached out to Springfield Marine and they mentioned there was a known issue. I am currently working with my dealer to figure out how to get a new post put into place.