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I have a 205 Sport and didn't want to pay the ridiculously high price of a factory/dealer installed depth finder. I bought a Faria depth and temp (both air and water temp) on amazon and installed myself for a fraction of the price. It shows the depth at all speed and has been a good unit so...

I would like to add some LED courtesy lighting to my 2011 205 Sport. Has anyone added courtesy lighting to a Sea Ray Sport Model that can share some install info? Also, I am looking to add some dock lighting to the factory tower. A couple of forward lights and one back and down for general...

Do you put your coats of wax on back to back or do you allow cure time between coats? I already bought the transom mount depth sounder. Wanted this one because it gives water and air temp along with depth. Time to make swiss cheese out of my new boat!

Thanks for all the great suggestions and all the responses. Looks like I will be spending some time under the boat waxing this weekend. Good to see someone for the Pacific NW on the forum, I did buy at Trudeau's. I will be keeping her on Hayden Lake instead of CDA which is even cleaner, so...

Hello, I am picking up a new 205 sport on friday. This is my first brand new boat and I have not owned a boat in over 15 years. I am going to keep it in a slip on a fresh water lake. Are there any recommendations on what to do before putting the boat in the water for the season. Do you...

I spoke with the dealer and he confirmed that it does in fact have a stainless prop. Thanks for your replies.

Thanks for the info. I will see the boat on Saturday and now have some good info from the manuracturer's website showing the stainless prop as ammo if the prop is aluminum.

I have not taken delivery on the boat yet (will be here on Friday) but the dealer sheet that lists all the options and equipment lists an aluminum prop. So you think that the 4.3 comes from mercruiser with stainless? If you you have any info along these lines it would be great because I would...

Thanks for the replies. Sounds like I can be happy with the factory aluminum prop for now.

How many of you are using a stainless prop? If you have one do you think it's worth the investment right away or wait till I ding the factory aluminum or skip stainless altogether. I have a '11 205 sport with 4.3 MPI. Any prop recomendations? My use is water sports and mostly wake sports. I...

Thanks for the replies. I had heard that you could run newer engines at WOT for 30 minutes and that mercrusier backs it up. As long as you are running under the rev limiter max rpm you are safe as far at they are concerned. Not sure if this is just a rumor. Maybe I will give them a call and...

I was just wondering because I owned an I/O about 20 years ago and the rule then was that you didn't run WOT for long periods over about 5 minutes. 2 stroke outboards you could run all day at WOT. With the new technology fuel injection and 6 cylinders I was wondering if things have changed and...

Hello. First post on this board. Just bought a '11 205 Sport with 4.3 MPI. Does anyone know how long you can run this engine at wide open throttle safely after it has been broken in? I could not find anything on the Mercruiser site and I searched the forum here with no luck. Do you ever...