Recent content by O!Richard

Try Technographics in Fort Lauderdale or Flounder Pounder Marine in Cocoa Beach. Technographics made many of the panels for Sea Ray and FP has many used ones available

Failured part is out to lab for failure analysis

Our Vetus stern thruster failed after 39 months. The bolts (2) that hold the drive unit together failed - the heads of the cap bolts sheared off. Has anyone has a similar experience? The repair was more than 5K out of pocket so I am not a happy camper.

We went with Odessey AGMs Reason is it uses the same chargers a that are on board and that they are exactly 1/2 the size of an 8D.

I would recommend that you go full width with the spacer piece to avoid stress. This will spread the force. Regards Richard

We raised platform on our 580 Sedan Bridge by two inches toward bow and raised the back by 7 inches. Underway platform is now level and no longer scoops water Regards Richard

Thank you all. Listed on Yacht World

I guess the day had to come. Today I put my 580 on the market and will start the search for a boat in the 30 foot range. The 580 is a bit much as a day boat. We loved her and spent many an enjoyable summer in the Bahamas and the Cheaspeake aboard.

Good Morning, We have a Sea Ray 580 and replaced our M5 with the HD7 which has worked flawlessly for the last 2 years. We have 5 TVs and also display our Simrad NSO thru the same TVs and can display TV on the 15" NSO displays. Regards Richard

We redid our whole boat with IMTRA replacement LED bulbs in warm white and blue. For NAV lights we used the HELLA LEDs units which fit perfectly. Also we have had no dimmer issues

Brian, Good practise would be to isolate each battery and charge seperately (not parallel other than thru an Isolator). Typically batteries are not identical and charge at different rates. An exception of course is when the are in series. I also in my boat switch to AGM Odessey Batteries...

Hi Brian, Do you have a 24 vdc system on the boat? If so it could be the battery equalizer (Vanner) having gone bad. We had this occur this spring.

We owned a 1998 480 for 6 years. Went through one repower, had major failure while in Bahamas and one lost summer. Replaced turbos every 250 hours. Went thru about every recall know from turbo studs, and 3 generations of aftercoolers. So I am not a good 3186 reference. It is Sea Ray who...

Typically this is a bad thermocouple which is a plug-in and easily replaceable. Try Cruisair SE at: 954 920 0300

Yes, It is with Gulfstream Marine; Contact Susie at 727 546 5029