hwkeye1911

You are correct, if there is no one at the helm she needs to stay off. All of our boats handle neutral a bit differently depending on the lift gate adjustment, mine is a very slow creep forward, but if I was tied up at only one point it would definitely swing it right around. I just consider the slow crawl out of the no-wake zone my warmup before playing for the day. My steering centers just fine when at speed, but you will find that it takes some getting used to at very slow speeds, lots of full turns on the steering wheel just to hold it straight against any current or wake. I know my boat came with docking mode, which just limits the rpm's of the engine preventing you from panic throttling and making a having a very bad day.

Unfortunitly neutral is something that doesn't really exist on our boats, it's must more of a really slow forward movement. I thought the same thing when I got into the world of jet boats but because your impeller is constantly spinning and moving water you will always expierence some sort of movement. Best advice, practice practice practice, took us a full summer of playing with it but we don't even notice it anymore. Have fun!

Terri,
We actually had a Islandia and one of your covers and as long as the ski pole he is talking about is the one that installs into the swim platform on the back of the boat we both remember your cover going over it just fine. The original cover from SeaDoo required that we removed the pole prior to installing the cover though. I'll look around my other computer and see if I can find any pictures to post.