New2Yak wrote:
Hmmm... Revo11 doesn't appear to have the Lowrance ready option. I'd love to hear why they decided to leave it off this one, given the mold had to go through lots of changes for the new seat. An oversight on Hobie's part? Intentional product line tinkering to better differentiate the 11 and 13? What a shame.
First, one must realize that the molds have a top and bottom half; the tops were modified to accommodate the new seats and scuppers, not the bottoms. Even the smallest modification on these molds is a time consuming and difficult job.
Secondly, those boats that have the Lawrence mod were likely chosen based on the percentage of fishing usage they were sold for rather than indiscriminately deciding to make all Hobies Lawrence ready. In other words there are certainly some fishermen who use the Revo 11, but the Outback (by way of contrast) is used by a lot of fishermen. Several models do have the mod to make sure fishermen have a good selection,
Interesting how quickly our standards change. A couple of years ago none of the boats had it and it didn't seem to be a big problem to mount a depth finder anyway. Maybe in the next year or two they will modify the rest of the line. In any event, I suspect it was a matter of allocating resource priorities than oversight.