RenegadeBassin

Is it ok to have some water ripple around a little behind where my prop is after I run it, or should I lower it? Its hard to decribe what I am talking about, but it makes a little noise like if you ran your hand through the water, or like what's behind your paddle when you are paddling in a kayak. Water displacement...?

Mine are group 27's and I had to hang them over the bildge area on a custom tray that I made to fit. They were to long to fit in that way with the back walls.

I am running 3 fishfinders, two powerpoles, and anything else as needed such as the aerator etc. on the cranking battery and I haven't had a dead battery yet. You just need to be smart about it and keep an eye on your voltage on your fishfinder, turn off stuff you aren't using, and charge your boat when its not in the water. Is it ideal? Maybe not for some people, but it works for me.

I am not really sure how 4 batterys could fit in there unless they upgraded the compartment? There's no way I could fit 4 in mine! And thats before I rearranged it all to fit two power pole pumps

Aside from this incident the fortrex has been good to me, but I think if you get a fortrex you will regret not getting the ultrex. Its basically the same mount and there are times almost every time I go fishing where I think, man, spot lock would be nice right now.

While I'm here, I have story/warning for you new boat owners like me that I don't think I've shared with you guys yet. Some of you may already know to do this but I didn't and its got my boat currently somewhat out of commission. A couple of weekends ago I was fishing a tournament and the wind was really blowing for the morning blast off. I'm talking about 3 and 4 foot waves. I drew number 1 so I got to go first when we started and so I didn't really have anyone to watch in front of me to gauge just how big those waves were for Maine. I haven't experienced anything like that around here before. I took off across the lake at a speed that I thought was safe, but would also get me to where i wanted to go without getting passed by the entire club behind me. Well, little did I know, in situations like that you want to have a stabilizer bar under your trolling motor. I've seen them before but mine did not come with one from the factory so I didn't think I needed it. If you are going to be going through waves, GET ONE. My fortrex mount basically snapped in half from the force of those waves. Luckily, minn kota is fixing it for me under warranty since I was not abusing it or mistreating it, I just was going through some unavoidable waves. I haven't been able to go fishing for like 2 weeks though and its driving me crazy. My advice, if you don't have something to support the head of your trolling motor, I would seriously consider getting one. If I had had one I wouldn't be in the situation I'm in now.

Don't worry about that! The more the merrier

I'm hoping to eventually see this thread turn into a place where more renegade owners can also share their experiences and help other people looking into the boat as well. Congrats man that sounds like its going to be awesome, can't wait to see it!

If you do end up putting poles on and you have any questions about brackets and stuff I can help you. It gets a little confusing if you aren't bolting to a jackplate because you can't use sandwich brackets with mercury's warranty.

Yeah I got a deal. I think it was a combination of the dealer already having the boat on the lot for like 4-5 months and the fact that we were going into winter. There are a lot more cold water fisherman around here than bass.

I guess that would depend on your dealer, but I think generally speaking prices typically will go down a few thousand if the dealer really wants to get rid of the boat before the season is over. Most dealers have whats called a floor plan. It's sort of like a loan. The brands that the dealer sells send them the boats that they put in their inventory, and for a period of time they don't have to pay any interest on them, but if that time period is up and they still have the boat, they have to start paying interest, and that makes them more motivated to sell, which can bring the price down.

BBG Marine was where I got all my networking stuff. They may be able to help.

My ethernet switch is in behind my dash inside my console. I was going to have it mounted underneath the console, but when the guy who installed my dash unit took the dash off we discovered a nice open space in there so that's where it ended up. All you have to do to get to it is take the four screws out of the dash with a screwdriver and pull the dash out towards you. For my bow unit, I used a 15' ethernet cable, and for my other two at the console I used 2' cables. The reason I could do that was because the adapter cables you have to get for the helix's are a foot long or so so they give you some extra length.

I agree with what Tim is saying. I think you would be just as well off in the Lund in those waves as you would be in most other boats, while fishing. Like any other mod v, it won't handle the waves as well as a v-hull when running through them. I was in quite a few waves yesterday and it wasn't a big deal. We had to do an idle only blast off because there was severe fog. Pretty hilarious...it was a turtle race across the lake. Anyway, with everyone going around 8-10 mph and throwing huge wakes there were still quite a few waves when I started fishing. It is much more of an up and down motion than a rocking back and forth motion if you know what I mean.

Exactly. Thats why I don't want to just go and say its a stable boat, because I have no idea what type of wakes he is talking about. Could be the wake of another small boat, or it could be large ship going up the channel for all I know

Thats a tough one for me to answer. What I may consider to be stable may be different than what you consider to be stable. I think its plenty stable, but I also live in an area where I don't have a ton of boat traffic. I may be able to give you a better answer on Monday. I am fishing a tournament sunday which will be the first one out of this boat for me, and I am sure I will encounter some wakes. I'll get back to you!

I have a dual pro 2 bank that seems to work great! Can't give too strong of an opinion since I got my boat in September, but it's really simple and easy to use/read. I do wish I had a three bank for all three of my batteries though because right now I have to hook my cranking battery up to another trickle charger that plugs into the wall as well.

If you are going to leave the batteries in the configuration they are in, you won't be able to get anything longer than 11.5 inches. That is one issue I have run into with this boat. I wanted to get a bigger cranking battery to support all the toys I added, but I found out I was constrained to 11.5 inches and they only really make 24s or 34s that fit in there.

So I measured over from my cranking battery to the opposite side of the compartment. It was 28". I did move the cranking battery over a little bit to make more room, but it seems like you should be able to fit everything in there.

Yeah those are 27's. I think the tape is a bad representation of the actual length because it is closer to the camera than the batteries are. I would just ignore it and go by online specs about the batteries.

For trolling motor batteries right? I can measure when I go home to eat lunch. In the meantime I have a picture from before I rearranged everything for my pumps that may or may not help.

Yeah I see they only list a few options on their website...I wonder if those are really the only units they will do or if they just don't have a very updated list of choices online?

I chose to do it all myself to save money and because I enjoy projects like this. I don't know what the scoop is on talons, what I did was emailed Lund about the power-poles to make sure it was ok to do, and I would suggest doing the same. One thing to consider is that talons are really heavy. I don't have anything against them, but they will probably slow the boat down quite a bit if you get 2 12's and they may make it sit bow high. I have heard that buying electronics through the dealer can be pricey, but it may be a good idea to try to get them put on the boat at the factory if you order it, because then you wouldn't get charged for labor if you had them put on at a shop after the fact. Some of the other guys on here may be able to give you better advice on this. I didn't have that choice because I bought mine like a day after seeing it on the lot. Heres a picture of how the boat sat in the water before the poles. Haven't had a chance to see from the side since i've put them on, but I doubt they did much they aren't heavy. This thread has been seeing quite a bit of attention lately! I am glad I can help people who have questions about the renegade. I just want to repeat what I said before about how I am definitely not an expert on boats, just doing what I can to help from my personal experience with this model. That being said I am very happy to answer everyone's questions. Thanks guys

You will need one ethernet cable per unit, along with one adapter for each cable if you get helix's, and then the ethernet switch to connect them all. I have mine setup so the two console units run off the mega si transducer on the transom, and the bow unit is obviously connected to its own transducer on the trolling motor.