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New 302 Owner

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:09 pm
by kep5niner
Greetings,

I'm glad I found this forum! It seems to be a great community, eager to help, and I've learned a lot from here before I pulled the trigger on a 2012 Cobalt 302. I've been boating my entire life, water skiing until after college, then got hooked on cruisers after that. We also had an 18' runabout to get the kids water skiing as well. Now they're off to college, my wife and I treated ourselves to the Cobalt.

The fit and finish of this boat is impressive, as well at the performance with the twin 5.7 GXiC-320-R. A few upgrades have found their way into the boat, including a dual 10-amp battery charger, Pender Pro clips, and I'll be installing a SeaLux marine flag pole and base. I'm currently researching fridge options to install in the factory location - more to follow.

I look forward to getting this boat where it needs to be - 100% - and will share what I can with the forum in the process. And of course - pics...

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:10 pm
by kep5niner
More pics

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:17 pm
by AsLan7
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Love those pics!

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:32 pm
by kep5niner
Thank you sir!

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:44 pm
by Big Block Power
Welcome what a sweet bow rider,

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:31 pm
by kep5niner
Thank you! I was shooting for about 10,000# to not get tossed around like a wine cork on Lake Ozark. This 302 handles magnificently!

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 12:05 pm
by kas232ca
kep5niner wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:10 pmMore pics
Nice boat...but...

Is that a Cessna 310?

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:50 pm
by TX777
Congratulations! Beautiful boat!

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 7:02 pm
by kep5niner
kas232ca wrote: Sat Aug 20, 2022 12:05 pm
kep5niner wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:10 pmMore pics
Nice boat...but...

Is that a Cessna 310?
Good eye! Yes one of my other toys. Makes boating seem cheap.

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 7:09 pm
by AsLan7
Beautiful K5!

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2022 11:29 am
by kas232ca
kep5niner wrote: Sat Aug 20, 2022 7:02 pm
kas232ca wrote: Sat Aug 20, 2022 12:05 pm
kep5niner wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:10 pmMore pics
Nice boat...but...

Is that a Cessna 310?
Good eye! Yes one of my other toys. Makes boating seem cheap.
Very nice. Do you have the Garmin in it?

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2022 11:34 am
by kep5niner
Airplane - yes, GPS400W. Good enough for my purposes, but I could easily throw $100k at the panel if I won the lotto. That’s another forum.

The boat - just a huge standby compass staring at me. Need to look at updating to a chart plotter for that as well.

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:21 am
by Krob1114
Wow....really nice. Welcome.

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:39 am
by kep5niner
Thank you!

Re: New 302 Owner

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 4:35 pm
by BIGGUSBLOCKUS
Beautiful. Hope to see you out on the lake at LOTO!