Recent content by Jakester218

As far as I know everything is stock. With more than 5 people I have a little trouble keeping it on plane in rough water. I suspect it has to do with all the crap guests tend to bring. With limited gear and a normal amount of beer you should be able to cruise at 25-29MPH easily in my opinion...

Brando I have not had issues restarting and the engine never seems to get over 173. I have bottom paint and can get it up on plane at 3800 ish RPMs with a little trim I back it down to 3500 RPMs and cruise at 28 ish MPH. The temp gauge seems to sit a little over the 170 mark. I'll be...

Engine overheating or my paranoia - help appreciated. Team, I have had my 2000 Sea Ray 270 Sundancer for about 3 years now. It has the Bravo 3 outdrive and the single 7.4 Mercruiser V-8. I have bottom paint and typically have 3-4 passengers and a cooler with a few brews on board with limited...

Team; I found a screaming deal on some bow-rail fender mount/brackets and am told that they will fit 3/4" to 1" bow-rails. I have scoured this site and "Google" but have not been able to determine what the diameter of the Bow-Rail is for these boats. Does anyone know? Thank you.

Anyone install a sub-woofer on one of these boats. I'm debating getting my audio re-done professionally and the guy says that you lose out on approximately 30% without a sub. I can't imagine where to put one though. Any ideas or pictures of a sub on the deck of this vintage of 270 sundancer?

Man, what a difference the tune-up and bottom job did. The boat is faster now than I though it would be. I could barely get 3500 RPM before, and now I top out at almost 45mph at 4500 RPM (according to the now functional speedo). I was a little skeptical of the performance of this boat when I...

I found a website called Boats.net. You just put your engine serial # in and you can click/pull all of the necessary parts in minutes. The prices were reasonable too. Pretty simple.

Howdy everyone. I'm looking to get ready for a little end of the year maintenance and had some questions that someone on here might just know off of the top of their head. I need to tune the engine up and was wondering what plugs/cap/rotor and wires were good. I have the 7.4 MPI Mercruiser...

Team, I have a few burned out light-bulbs in my boat. West Marine has them, but their hours are awful for a workin man (literally 9-5 M-F). Does anyone know what the model number or identifying number is for the bulb that goes in the bathroom and the bulb that fits the small directional lights...

Would somebody mind shooting me a picture of the Zip-Tie P loop, so I can re-work my correctly next time I go up. I honestly don't remember which way it went. Thank you;

Howdy yall, just a few musings from last weekend, that I figured may entertain some. I have had my new to me 2000 270 Sundancer for a few months now and decided it was time to try the Kenyon Butane stove out to cook some eggs on. I had previously purchased some Butane and I put a can into the...

Well gang, I was able to take the boat out last weekend. What a blast. The weather was in the upper 60s with a little rain at night. Spent the whole weekend up at the marina. Coming into work was a little rough this morning, but, the inagural voyage was a success.

I don't know why the marina won't allow a boat to stick out a little bit. They say its because the anchor sticking out beyond the slip creats liability/injury/damage problems/possibilities. I'm going to go and look around to see if other boats are sticking out, because I want to make sure they...

Just a little FYI to anyone, but I kind of found out the hard way that the advertised length of these boats seems to be a little short. I rented a 30' slip for my new to me 270 Sundancer thinking it would not be a problem. Found out today that due to the extended swim platform and the big...

Any word on those measurements team?