Affordable Water Jets?

Ordering all those replacement parts up front with the original purchase would be prudent, no?

 

It can be, but sometimes wear parts aren't obvious. One of my skiffs came with a nearly new complete jet (about 37k at the time). First season we robbed parts from it. 17 years later eve rotated through the same parts we robbed and 90% is still sitting in the shop. A good supplier would have a better idea on wear life but its often case specific.

One fishery has lots of wear ring and impeller and seal wear, another has near perpetual use of the bucket dump and often needs bucket parts with less impeller wear. After some time operating spare parts make sense can be costly up front.

I remember starting out, was hard to rationalize tens of thousands of dollars worth of parts that "might" be necessary.

 

That is what has me leaning towards Ultrajets - from reading their website, MJP allow individuals/owners etc to do their service technician courses, you can order parts straight from them, they have comprehensive parts catalogues online - everything suggests that they are really customer service focussed - even for people who are in the absolute middle of nowhere. Their website is the best I have seen of any jet manufacturer as far as the volume of information that you can get straight from it - all of the others that I have looked at leave you needing to contact them to get more information that you require but on MJP's website all of the information is right there and easy to find - I really like that!

 

Nothing is "overnight" in Egypt - even if it is just coming from Cairo By far the quickest way to get something from outside Egypt is to get it sent to a customer who is coming to a dive centre for a holiday and get them to bring it in their luggage - obviously there are limitations as to size and amount of things but for smaller parts it works well.

 

Absolutely - and do the service technician training.

 

I think that the best way will be to have a good discussion with MJP about what we are doing and so forth. We probably won't be quite as hard on parts as say commercial fishing, but using the boat in dynamic positioning will add some wear.

 

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