Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

My 96 only has a tach and my first toon didn't even have that. I had a digital multi-function gauge from a dirt bike laying around so I made a bracket and mounted it.
Now in one fell swoop I had a monitor for everything + navigation. I didn't NEED any of it, but it was nice to have.

I kept it when I sold the old Crest and I've considered installing it on my current toon but it would mean fabbing a new panel bc of the large tach hole. Just haven't been motivated enough.

I'm just curious why the boating world hasn't embraced these?

Many (if not most) new pontoons have lots of data available either on the GPS/fishfinder (Garmin, Simrad, etc) or available through a multi-function gauge available as part of the engine package
https://www.mercurymarine.com/en/us/gau ... esselview/


My Yamaha outboard is connected to a NEMA 2000 network, which allows me to see RPM, water temp, oil temp and pressure, voltage, and a bunch of other data on my Simrad screen.

I have a G3 with full gauges plus a Simrad factory. The Simrad wasn't networked to the outboard and was just for nav but I connected it. The higher end models did not come with any gauges just a larger Simrad. Gauges are a lot cheaper than a nice sized Simrad or other unit. One thing I did find odd is that on the models with gauges, G3 did not install an hour meter tach.