Hey everyone
Can someone with a 380 possibly tell
Me the gypsy size for the chain please? I want to upgrade to all chain and not at boat for a week and want to get the correct chain diameter.
Thanks
We are in the process of buying a 2001 Sea Ray 380 and upon sea trial (after structural inspection I might add) I noticed water coming into the bilge through the fibre glass that encapsulates the stern tube tunnel. After a new inspection and amazing advice from Club Sea Ray members here, we...
Ok so final update. Firstly I wish to thank everyone’s input, it’s these kind of threads that become an invaluable source of information for many people.
we had a well known and respected glass fibre repair specialist take a look today. Everything is as reported in this thread.
The cracks...
Your input is invaluable, as a novice just getting our heads around it all. we are waiting to hear from glas shop if can be left for winter, they just looked at it, waiting for report.
My only concern is the crack around the pod on the inside. As you say this is where it attaches to the boat and it’s cracked 3/4 way round internally under the engine.
Thanks for the great write up, unfortunately as you can see from the photos the shaft log is actually spitting from the hull (just in bottom right of photo), it has actually cracked 3/4 the way round and the underside of the hull has matching cracks. There are spider cracks around the Port side...
Apparently known issue. Due to proximity of the shafts to the tunnel and years of vibration and any period of miss alignment coupled with water pressure within the tunnel can cause this. It’s a weak point where the tunnel which kind of looks like and upside down boot with a tube out the tube...
The surveyor is refunding so I am not going to publish his name. But the boat was out the water there was zero excuse to miss this. But I do suggest other 2001 380 owners to check their prop tunnels where the tunnel is joined to the hull both bilge side and hull external side. This is solid core...