Malibu Boat owner for 26 years, but only two: a 1998 Sunsetter and currently a 2008 VTX.

Reviewing most of the thread pages here, it feels like many haven't taken the time to read the filed lawsuit and all the allegations - google it, you can find a copy to read.

Maybe because this thread is called Tommy v Malibu not much shade is being tossed towards Malibu. However, make no mistake, Malibu is culpable. As of May 3rd, there is a shareholder class action suit filed against Malibu. Next is likely an SEC investigation. This entire situation is a classic pump and dump fraud.

This controversy and the slowing of boat sales does not bode well for the future of Malibu. The worst thing that can happen is there is no more Malibu Boats Inc. Or even worse, Brunswick Corp buys Malibu for pennies on the dollar and Malibus are built next to Bayliners.

25 minutes ago, MikeR397 said:

Frankly, I find this mandatory 10hr service quite annoying as I can do it at home in less time than it’s gonna take pulling it out of the lake and trailing and relaunching all to be in warranty compliance for a simple job I could prove I did myself with parts receipts. I guess they want to look things over and make sure they are breaking in properly, but I am skeptical much of that actually happens anyway. 

That's exactly what they do, it's more than an oil change.  It's to document the trans/Vdrive aren't wearing excessively after initial break in, that alignment is good, that motor mounts are right, etc.    

I would think it is an Indmar part as opposed to a GM part.

16 minutes ago, MikeR397 said:

Ya I called to schedule my 10hr service and they said they are not taking appts for it and to just drop it off and wait in Que. I said I’m not comfortable leaving it overnight and will wait and help or at least pick it up same day, but they didn’t seem to like that idea and I got nowhere. I’m only at 4hrs so far and it’s cold here for a bit in MI so have a little time but feel I’m gonna have to got there in person and put my foot down a bit.
 

Frankly, I find this mandatory 10hr service quite annoying as I can do it at home in less time than it’s gonna take pulling it out of the lake and trailing and relaunching all to be in warranty compliance for a simple job I could prove I did myself with parts receipts. I guess they want to look things over and make sure they are breaking in properly, but I am skeptical much of that actually happens anyway. 

I'm sending you a PM

Me again...

So, the shipper heads out, and, careful fellow he is, checks the rig after about 50 miles.

Oops.  Hot hubs.  Back to the broker, who takes it to a tire joint; shipper goes on to other adventures, mebbe back in a couple weeks or so.

Sigh.  To quote Emily Latella, "It's always something!"

But, in 2013, after over a year's work on our Morgan 461 sailboat on which we lived and cruised, I called it the Shake-and-BreakDown cruise, as literally every stop resulted in a problem which prevented our moving on without remedying whatever problem it was which arose.

So, no biggie; even if it's new bearings, and I've asked for Bearing Buddies to be put on at the same time, we'll have it soon enough.

However...

(You knew I'd get there, right?)

We don't need any form of tower since the boat comes with a Skylon pole. Which means that the extra-large bimini required by the son's wife has no place to live - and likely would have to be dropped to use the pole, to boot, as its strain relief is via a cable to the bow, with a strap over the sides, and a clip on the eye.  I expect the aft-mounted Skylon isn't tall enough to avoid contact with the bimini if it's any taller than the windshield-ish.

Musing:  On Flying Pig (the aforementioned sailboat) we had a very large bimini, as well as full enclosure windows, making foul weather interesting rather than uncomfortable.  We aren't voyaging in this boat, but for cooler weather, having some form of enclosure, or even just an added-height windshield, might be nice, when we figure out the bimini.  The boat has the center air dam under the folding center windshield...

Which brings me to the point: Has anyone done a free-standing bimini with a Skylon, particularly with a Sunscape 21 (or Wakesetter, as the configuration would be the same)?

And, in a thread long ago, and far away, I'd asked for gunwale and front-of-windshield spreads, in order to figure out the size of the tower I'd need to order.  That's now moot, but the circumstances are the same, as that likely would be where the bimini bows would mount.  Stupid me, I neglected to bring a tape measure to my survey - because I was focused on seeing into difficult spaces and got a flamethrower flashlight and a mirror, only - to make those measurements myself.  And the boat's apparently not yet back at the broker's as we've heard nothing from him, or I'd ask him to measure.

So, adding another beg to my askit, would someone measure the centerline of the gunwale-gunwale distance behind the windshield and the deck in front of the windshield on a similar boat?  And the distance between those points fore/aft?

TIA, as this group is KILLER for newbies like me.  So much that I ordered another long sleeved promo shirt to proclaim to those who didn't see the sticker(s) on the cars enthusing over this site ☺

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