Recent content by Skip

Thank you all-Jaybeaux, hold the aft cabin for me and the Asst. Sec. of the USAF....

Sad to report that TBIV is in brokerage. Between my wife’s new job, my growing Company, and our youngest son’s college prep baseball travel league, every weekend this summer is booked. When she sells will be the first time since I was 24 that I have not owned a boat, and the first time in 18...

Space in the ER between the MANs is tight. Access to the outboard side of both engines is also tight. In the mid Atlantic where I boat there are very few MAN trained technicians, so forming a good relationship with your MAN dealer is essential. We love the boat-it rides far better in sloppy...

Thank you all for your feedback. This is the best owners board - hands down. We ran TBIV 250 miles last weekend....down the Potomac and up the Chesapeake to Cambridge MD and return. Steep 4’ on the bay with spray over the hard top Friday morning (NOAA Forecast winds NW @ 7, seas 1-2‘ )...

Gentlemen, (you too, Carter) Am still running the original E120s and Raymarine AP and Radar in TBIV What, if anything, have you done in terms of replacements? Everything I have works, and we have bought the retirement home in St. Thomas USVI so the 58 will give way to a sailing Cat in 4-5 years...

We have a Nautica (11’LOA) with a 40HP Yamaha. I have to watch the OB lower unit in tight or windy situations but no big deal.

We love the 58....our floating home in the summer. The V8 MANs are a great match for the boat

Jaybeaux and I were recommissioning Truly Blessed IV yesterday and saw Truly Blessed II, our 03 420 DA, pull in to the Marina to pump out. We traded her in November ‘13 for the 52DB. I think she has had three different owners since that time. Still looking good, and she was the inspiration...

Hard to believe it has been 13 years and change since I started this thread. We loved our 03 420DA. We ran the 58 up to DC two weeks ago (just before the recreational boating ban..thank you, Chinese Communists) and saw the old 420DA (now on her 4th owner) going down the river. Sadly no longer...

So..it has been a while since I visited this board...my company went from 13 to 82 employees last year and even with the current virus shutdown I think 2020 is going to be another great year. Between the Company growing, sending our oldest off to College, and losing my Mom and Dad two months...

Circling back on this thread-my friend has a 2017 240 Sundeck, 6.2/BIII on a lift in St. Michaels. Needs annual services, winterization, and shrink wrap on the lift for the Sundeck, plus annual services on a 2017 70 Yamaha OB (boat is on a trailer)-and annual services and winterization of a...

Just replied to your email on oil pressure

Our 2007 52DB had leaking fuel tanks-identified during survey. The salon was disassembled. There is a large fiberglass deck plate that is screwed and caulked in place. That came out, then the MANs and transmissions came out, so we could get to the fuel tanks. Total repair cost to the seller...

Just had the same services done on my boat, Carter. This was a part of the sales contract that we negotiated......the dealer estimated 20K. I also had the port oil cooler gasket replaced. Starboard was done before we bought the boat, and having had the port gasket fail on the 52 (with the...

In my '03 420DA the fluxgate compass was mounted behind the glove box at the helm. I know this because in the process of troubleshooting the magnetic switch on the cockpit door (the one that, when working properly, prevents the hatch lift from engaging when the cockpit door is closed, thus...