Our season is pretty short up here. We have a 4 season home on Lake Winnipeg, but we don't really start using it until the start of July and the season wraps up when the kids go back to school in early September. Being on a large lake, there are some days when the wind (wave action) makes boating unpleasant, so we ride the Sea Doo. My two kids will waterski, but typically like to head out on the boat to so some tubing or drop an anchor and go swimming (or just listen to music or read a book), so we spend a fair bit of time at anchor. I guess all of the above results in low engine hours (18/year average).Krob1114 wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2024 5:53 amBob, we bought our boats at the same time:300 hours.jpgBobRae99 wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 12:55 pm I purchased a 2019 R3 new (in 2019) with a VP350. It has been an excellent boat (now with 108 hours). It has not needed any repairs and the build quality is rock solid. You won't regret purchasing a Cobalt. As to engine power, the power curves for the VP 300 and 350 are pretty similar until around 4,500 rpm, at which point the 300 flattens out and the 350 keeps rising a bit, providing a few mph of top end. If memory serves an R3 350VP hits about 52 mph while the 300 tops out at around 48 mph. The time to plane for both is around 2.9 seconds. Good luck.
I guess it's our longer season. I got YouTube TV so I can watch games on our boat. We may have 2 or 3 more trips to the lake.
