Question regarding VE walk through transom cushion

[Razzman]

Ahh bite me! My boats too old to have a walk through anything more less a transom! Hmmm ... there we go! A new reason to buy a new boat! Yeah that's it!

She'll never go for it ...

[G-MONEY]

Long live the "V"

[G-MONEY]

Ahh bite me! My boats too old to have a walk through anything more less a transom! Hmmm ... there we go! A new reason to buy a new boat! Yeah that's it!

She'll never go for it ...

She might ...just ask.....


















Then run for your safety.

[Razzman]

Hey G-Money, saw on another board last night where this dude orders a new boat (Nautique and way over priced imo) without telling the wife! The dealer calls and said your boat is being delivered three weeks early and he panics and tells her, now he's on the board whining that he's in deep shitz! LOL! It either takes some big cajonés to do that or a lot of stupidity, not sure which! LOL!

OK ... back on topic!

[G-MONEY]

You should just do that and see how she reacts, it could would be one of those priceless moments .........or a life lesson

[G-MONEY]

Now back on topic...

[G-MONEY]

The door opens the same amount....I like the Ve style because people don't have to walk all over the cushion on the back and get it dirty.

The hole is smaller on the Ve's and RZ2

[Timmy!]

Oh, didn't realize the RZ's were different. I knew they had different coolers in the back but not compartment covers.

[Razzman]

You should just do that and see how she reacts, it could would be one of those priceless moments .........or a life lesson

Momentary DUDE! I've been married 29 years! I haven't survived that long doing stupid things! Well maybe not THAT stupid ... there was a motorcycle once while the wife was giving birth ... DOH! Lucky to get away with my skin!

Back on topic ... So how ABOUT those cushions huh? What's a guy gonna do?

[talltigeguy]

Hey G-Money, saw on another board last night where this dude orders a new boat (Nautique and way over priced imo) without telling the wife! The dealer calls and said your boat is being delivered three weeks early and he panics and tells her, now he's on the board whining that he's in deep shitz! LOL! It either takes some big cajonés to do that or a lot of stupidity, not sure which! LOL!

OK ... back on topic!

I did that. It was all I talked about for 3 months so I couldn't believe she was surprised when I pulled in the driveway on Christmas day with a new 2002 21V. We had some major issues with that. We have been married 17 years now. The worst part was me telling her how fun it WAS GOING to be while it was 45 degrees outside, and waiting 6 months before she actually agreed the boat was the best family tool we have.

[da.bell]

Too many kids in my household so we don't even us it. It gets cleaned ever weekend but never used when the children are around.

I agree with everyone else: LONG LIVE THE V!!!!!

[scoot18]

we leave ours on while driving the boat but we have had it come off in bad water but it falls off becouse our locker keeps poping open. the latch isnt holding very well. anyone have this problem

Yeah I had this problem. The day I took delivery of the boat it popped open several times on the tow home. I got tired of pulling over to close it. I did fix it however. Very easy. Let me know if you would like to know what I did and I will share, take a pic and send it too you. Since the repair it hasn't popped open once. "Very easy fix."

Regarding the cushion, I have only drove the boat once with it in place and had no problems. It seems to spend most of its time stowed on port side forward locker or in the garage.

[wakeboarder247]

hey Scoot I would love to know how you fixed it! PM sent

[scoot18]

hey Scoot I would love to know how you fixed it!

I used two rubber plumbing faucet washers. Just remove the two screws holding the striker and install to small plumbing washers or equivalent and reinstall and problem will be solved. I used the rubber washer because the have some give and won't induce any rattles. Anything like that, that you can place in behind like a shim to move the striker more inboard to give the latch more to hold onto. See attached pic. Estimated repair time. 1 min.
It has worked great for my situation.

[wakewilson]

Great idea, mine opens too.

Does anyone have problems with the other side locker latch? Mine turns so hard and the set screw never holds the latch in the correct place. I was thinking about using another bolt and a couple of lock washers. Anyone have any other ideas?