Cobalt Boats Forum

Seems like perhaps there's an opportunity to refresh the A series as a deep-vee luxury boat and keep the R series as a shallower-vee watersports boat? What I would love to see is the A29 scrapped and restyled exactly like the A28, but with A29 beam such that it can fit twins. Basically the Cobalt v...

I sold my flawless 2014 R5 with 200hrs on a VP380 this summer for 85k without a trailer. Mine was white without a tower.

This boat is still for sale but it’s being listed through Erickson Marine in Hastings MN now.

I just sold our beloved R5. When we decide to get back into boating I will be looking for another R5 or even a R7 but I will not be purchasing an R6 or R8. I don’t like the lines on them and the build quality. IMO Malibu ruined Cobalt.. I will also be looking at a Formula or possibly Chaparral. I wo...

Kate wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:52 am Any tips on dealing with biting flies while on a boat? Getting ready to use a .38.

Let me know how that .38 works for you! A little piece of advice, don’t aim at the floor!

After owning an R5 for nearly 9 years and my uncle owning a 226 for the same time the 226 is a great boat! But it is nothing compared to the R series. I would agree with BBP and either plan on putting 20K into your 226 or buy an R series. Especially if you get into rough water! The R’s have a higher...

You can keep those temps! We just had 102 degrees on Thursday with a dew point at 78 degrees.. that’s hot enough to melt this snowman!!

Good to know about the tongue weight, I would guess I’m at or over 1000lbs too, it will squat my F150 without any air in the air bags.

We got the boat on the new trailer this weekend and took the boat out for a bit. The lake was packed. I still have to dial in the position of the boat. I want to find a scale so I can figure out the tongue weight as the truck squats quite a bit more than with the old trailer. But, the old trailer m...

Excavate down? That’s exactly what I did for a few summers with my R5. I have a gravel floor in my shed so every spring I would just use a skid loader to dig the gravel down 6” in one of the door openings. Then after the boat was put to bed for the winter I would fill the hole back up until spring....

The truth? Chop off a couple feet from each advertised length, because the swim deck is included in the overall hull length. My R7 is a 27 1/2' boat with a 2' swim deck? It's actually a 25 1/2' hull. . I can’t remember the year manufacturers switched this spec but our 2005 263 is a 26’3” hull rough...

OK. I have a 2014 R5 and love the boat, but I just posted a comment on another thread about how it handles the chop at our lake. Boating in Texas has been a real learning experience. The wind is almost constant here, but especially in West Texas where our lake is. So, most days are windy and the ch...

Hello Again, So boat was delivered to Sparrow Lake Ontario, and here is the update. Overall amazing boat! I do love it. The power is incredible compared to my previous V6 Chaparral. It's spacious and luxurious. There have been a few growing pains so far. 1) Delivery person neglected to tell me that...

Everybody asked for pics here. I knew what you were getting at LOL. I'm having a hard time getting my trailer plates from Utah transferred to Montana. Bummer can't put it in the water yet without taking it chance of a ticket. Look forward to help from this site. Been lurking a while while I was sho...

That’s a sharp looking boat! Maybe a 272 will replace my R5 someday??

I am listing this for my uncle. It is ready for a new lake home and needs nothing. He just replaced the impeller and bellows this spring.


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