89P270
Active Member
- Feb 2, 2017
- 215
- Boat Info
- 1989 Pachanga 270
1997 270DA
- Engines
- Twin Mercruiser 357 4V alpha's
ColoSR is right on the Vesselview. I just sold my 2002 Rinker 342 Fiesta Vee and bought a 1997 270DA. The Rinker was a fine boat. It had Mercruiser 6.2L MPI engines common to a lot of mass produced cruisers. But the Faria analog gauges (also common to a lot of mass produced boats) were simply crap. The Rinker only had 270 hours and those gauges were always off (when they actually were reading at all). Replacing analog with digital and using vessel view blue tooth would have been the ticket. Particularly if you get a soft alarm for something like a faulty IAC (meaning 2 beeps every minute not a continuous alarm). With Vesselview technology you can read everything from actual oil temps, water pressures, air/fuel etc and I think even Codes and know right away its a an IAC or MAP or?. I didn't upgrade the Rinker due to cost. Todays boat are set up with digital and vesselview (albeit it an option likely). For older technology you can sort of get the same bang for the buck with a Rinda Techmate. If the engines have an ECM with output dongle (I think 1998ish MPI forward) you can connect the Rinda and get all that information for 5 bills. Alas, the 270 I bought is 7.4L carb so no dongle for Rinda. Other modern (post-2000) technologies I can do without particularly newer GPS that almost requires a Masters to fully understand. The 270 has a good ole Garmin GPSMAP 180...…...