Official 330 Sundancer Thread

has anyone ever removed the engine hatch. was going to pull by generator and do some maintenance would love to be able to jump right in.. yes I miss all the room my 390 had
Just pulled both engines and generator last week. Did not remove engine hatch. Only disconnected the ram and open hatch 90 degrees.
 
I'm currently shopping for a '96 - '98 330DA and have looked at several. I looked at a nice boat yesterday but what struck me was the A/C location and the generator switch on the electronic panel. My question is, were those kind of options installed at different locations in the factory or maybe these are dealer installed? The boat I saw yesterday had the A/C control and a vent on the stb aft facing bulkhead between the hanging locker and the settee. The A/C control and ducting take up some space inside the locker. Other control locations have been to port over the galley sink or under the cabinet below the TV. Same thing with the generator switch. This had a rotary switch on the electronic panel. Others have a toggle under a slide. Why all the differences between the same model?

Hey Play Dough,
I have a 1997 330DA 7.4L with V-Drives and I have noticed other owners of the same make and model have slight differences, as you noted. Mine is in fantastic condition and I just put it up for sale. We are about to retire and move to a 40'+ trawler (slow boat). Anyway, Judy Ann is a freshwater boat I piloted from our home base in Chattanooga TN to Palmetto FL last year. Here is the link....https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1997/sea-ray-330-sundancer-3249399/?refSource=standard listing
Listed by All Captains Yacht Sales.
 
Anybody know of a good online synthetic teak source for a ‘95 330DA? I know material is of abundance but a pre-made template would be great!
 
Hey Play Dough,
I have a 1997 330DA 7.4L with V-Drives and I have noticed other owners of the same make and model have slight differences, as you noted. Mine is in fantastic condition and I just put it up for sale. We are about to retire and move to a 40'+ trawler (slow boat). Anyway, Judy Ann is a freshwater boat I piloted from our home base in Chattanooga TN to Palmetto FL last year. Here is the link....https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1997/sea-ray-330-sundancer-3249399/?refSource=standard listing
Listed by All Captains Yacht Sales.

Looks and sounds a little too used for my interest, but thanks for the input.
 
Hello - currently own a 270 dancer - looking at a 1999 330 dancer this weekend - any advice as to what I should be looking for - both engines have been overhauled, they have 150 hrs - the boat has 900 hrs. Fresh water boat, bottom painted.
 
Hello - currently own a 270 dancer - looking at a 1999 330 dancer this weekend - any advice as to what I should be looking for - both engines have been overhauled, they have 150 hrs - the boat has 900 hrs. Fresh water boat, bottom painted.

Check for soft spots on the deck. Known spots are the base of the windshield, around the windlass, around the windlass foot controls if it has them, around the hatches, and around the bow rails. Basically anywhere. Soft spots indicate rot in the balsa core from water intrusion. That’s the main issue specific to the 330. The rest is just like any other boat.
 
Hello - currently own a 270 dancer - looking at a 1999 330 dancer this weekend - any advice as to what I should be looking for - both engines have been overhauled, they have 150 hrs - the boat has 900 hrs. Fresh water boat, bottom painted.


Make sure all the pads are there they go missing. the cockpit converts into a large sunpad and the couch turns into another bed
 
Hey Saverio - not to sound stupid - but how does fresh water cooled work. Is it similar to a car radiator system. With my single 454 and outdrives my system is cooled with an impeller.
The boat I am looking at is fresh water cooled and I see your is also.
 
Hey Saverio - not to sound stupid - but how does fresh water cooled work. Is it similar to a car radiator system. With my single 454 and outdrives my system is cooled with an impeller.
The boat I am looking at is fresh water cooled and I see your is also.
Fresh water cooled is not similar to a car radiator system. There is a seacock(s) in the bilge that supplies water to the engine. The water travels through the tranny cooler, engine etc and discharged through the exhaust manifolds. This means you must winterize your boat in the winter so that the water does not freeze, expand and crack the blocks. This is typical in all inboard boats that aren’t inter cooled.
 
Fresh water cooled is not similar to a car radiator system. There is a seacock(s) in the bilge that supplies water to the engine. The water travels through the tranny cooler, engine etc and discharged through the exhaust manifolds. This means you must winterize your boat in the winter so that the water does not freeze, expand and crack the blocks. This is typical in all inboard boats that aren’t inter cooled.

Not quite right. You just described raw water cooling. Fresh water cooling has antifreeze running through the block and manifolds and a heat exchanger that takes raw water from the lake/ocean and uses it to cool the coolant. Like a car rad but cooled with raw water. The raw water then exits through the exhaust elbows and out the exhaust.
 
With the antifreeze in the coolant, does a person still need to winterize/drain the block. We do get a few nice days in TN during the winter and it would be great to go cruising in January.
 
Over the past weekend I looked at a 1999 dancer 330 - great boat, but the head liner over the bed needs to be replaced. Is this a big issue/hard to do??
 
Over the past weekend I looked at a 1999 dancer 330 - great boat, but the head liner over the bed needs to be replaced. Is this a big issue/hard to do??

I would be more concerned with understanding "why" it needs to be replaced. That is a big red flag to me of a possible leak, major deck repair, or other issue.
 
I passed on the dancer 330 - I agree with you guys once I looked a little closer - why the damage. Thank you for your input. I search continues!!
 
I passed on the dancer 330 - I agree with you guys once I looked a little closer - why the damage. Thank you for your input. I search continues!!

You will find one. It was one of the most popular cruisers and Sea Ray made a lot of them. Just watch for soft decks and around deck hatches and base of the windshield. And the Horizon engines with the original log mufflers have water inversion issues that would probably have been resolved by now, but may be out there. Other than that there are not that many issues with them other than the normal wear end tear applicable to any boat.
 
hi all, i am buying a 330 1997 and the hin is not visible on stern because a new swim platform was put there. I understand there is a "secondary hin" hidden in the boat. any idea where? I went to the sea ray co site and no email or contact information is available so impossible to contact the company?
 
hi all, i am buying a 330 1997 and the hin is not visible on stern because a new swim platform was put there. I understand there is a "secondary hin" hidden in the boat. any idea where? I went to the sea ray co site and no email or contact information is available so impossible to contact the company?

Doesn't the owners title give the HIN?
 
After two years of being out of the cruiser world, I'm back in the game. The trailer boat just didn't satisfy the boating appetite. It's been a couple months of negotiation and working through a couple issues revealed in the survey, but I've finally completed the purchase of a 1997 330DA. I'm looking forward to the next chapter in my boating life.
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