2018 Yamaha 242 Limited S E Series Review

• #1

Then I'm in the marketplace for a new boat and I'm curious if anyone knows when yamaha releases the 2018 models? I don't know if I should agree off to see what yamaha has to offer for the upcoming year. Then if anyone knows when the new line comes out that would be a great. Cheers

• #2

They are normally announced effectually August and they start to hit hit dealers end of fall/early on winter.

• #3

Do y'all know if yamaha has released any info on their boats however for 2018?

• #4

Yamaha stays tight lipped and won't announce annihilation until the annual dealers meeting.

• #5

Well it'south within the timeframe of when I'chiliad looking to buy. So I guess I will go along an eye out for the new model info. Thank you for the insight.

• #8

Considering the flagship 21 footer, the 212X, has the same engines that all the larger 24 footers have, AND Chaparral is winning pretty hands in the horsepower game, I'm hoping Yamaha will step up their game and evangelize some higher performance engines for the 24' class shortly.

I don't think winning the HP game is their mission. If you look at the speeds of Yamaha boats, they are slowing down. I doubt there are any plans to for whatsoever significant upgrades.

Besides boattest.com shows the top speed of the Chaparral 24' equipped with twin 250 hp Rotax engines as 54 mph. Yamaha is 50. That'due south pretty negligible. Y'all want them to slap on even more than to the MSRP to make upwards those 4 mphs?

The Chap 21' with twin 205 hp clocks in at 52.9, and the 250 hp nineteen' Chap clocks in at 44. That 250 HP xix' Chaparral speed #due south are comparable to the base level Yamaha 190 with merely 180 hp.

Winning the HP game isn't really getting them ameliorate performing boats. Not sure what a 21' twin 250 hp would do though they didn't have i reviewed.

• #nine

Considering the flagship 21 footer, the 212X, has the same engines that all the larger 24 footers have, AND Chaparral is winning pretty easily in the horsepower game, I'grand hoping Yamaha will pace upwardly their game and deliver some college operation engines for the 24' class before long.

I would also imagine that chaparral with twin 250'southward GPH must be pretty low. I don't similar paying fuel dock prices on long trips if I don't have to.

• #12

The 223 with the twin 250 wasn't tested, then you may be right near that. That'due south besides their 21' gunkhole not their 24', your original post was wanting more functioning out of the 24' line from Yamaha.

The twin 250 rotax in a 21' boat that the other jet makers offer may be where they dissever from Yamaha operation wise, only all the other boats seem to exist comparable, and some like in the nineteen' accept really poor performance for the amount of HP they are supposedly packing.

• #13

Last year I had a scarab 21 footer with twin 250. I could hit sixty+ in whatever status. It was cool every now and so but sucked the fuel.

• #xiv

Before i bought a gunkhole i always looked at top speed. After i bought a boat i discover us extremely rarely going wot... i still would not desire a boat tha maxs at 35 mph but i dont put as much value in the overall peak speed like i utilize also. (Thinks to self.... am i likewise former? Am i becoming my dad?)

• #15

Before i bought a boat i e'er looked at height speed. Later i bought a boat i detect u.s.a. extremely rarely going wot... i nonetheless would not want a gunkhole tha maxs at 35 mph but i dont put as much value in the overall top speed similar i utilise likewise. (Thinks to self.... am i too onetime? Am i becoming my dad?)

Same hither. Top speed is overrated. My wife hates going fast. She would rather cruise along at a comfy speed and anchor in a cove somewhere to sun bath. I don't retrieve of us as too terribly old nevertheless either at 33 and 34. I've been looking at wake boats and their top speed is lacking. I was worried at first simply the more than I call back about information technology I think it would be just fine.

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• #16

Same hither. Peak speed is overrated. My wife hates going fast. She would rather prowl along at a comfortable speed and anchor in a cove somewhere to sun bath. I don't think of us as too terribly sometime all the same either at 33 and 34. I've been looking at wake boats and their peak speed is lacking. I was worried at first but the more I think about information technology I think information technology would be just fine.

Equally a friend of ours who owns a beautiful Nautique puts it: "speed ways nothing" in a wake boat.
The just reason Yamaha would need more power would be if they make a truthful wake boat.

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• #17

If the history of Yamaha'south releases is annihilation, the 242 series is now "old" and will be upgraded/replaced shortly.

That's what I was thinking. I know a 24ft overhaul has to exist in the works. If not a 2018 model then 2019. The progression of yamaha over the years has been an real heart pleaser. Excited to see what's in store

• #eighteen

They may go to a 26 footer for the adjacent big modify before they go to bigger engines. Just a thought.

• #19

I'd like to see a bigger model equally well, at least 27ft.

• #20

at a piddling more 4000lbs in the 242x, Yamaha is at a point where they will need to do something in the ability range before long. I can noticeably tell a difference in my CARB 242x over my 232L-S when up at Lake Tahoe. The distance afflicted both boats (a drop of about 1,000rpm) however, I find the drop in horsepower more in the 242. It'southward that extra 700lbs over the 232.

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