2000/2001 380DA thoughts, opinions, reviews

douglee25 said:
I predict your offer won't be given much thought... I could be wrong!
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My 13% below their asking price is only 7% off of what the broker mentioned they would take. "We have an offer of X from someone local who needs to sell their boat first....." Also mentioned the current owner is looking at a 60'+ SR for about 1.2mil. So what's 20-30k when you are in the market for a boat that expensive??
 
My gut tells me they are not ready to sell. We could split the difference, I go thru the time/resources to get to closing, then they change their mind again.
SeaNile said:
My 13% below their asking price is only 7% off of what the broker mentioned they would take. "We have an offer of X from someone local who needs to sell their boat first....." Also mentioned the current owner is looking at a 60'+ SR for about 1.2mil. So what's 20-30k when you are in the market for a boat that expensive??
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The fact that a broker is actually COMMUNICATING with him is amazing, and shocking. Nice job @SeaNile !

The way brokers work these days reminds me of trying to buy a car when you used to sit in front of the sales guy and they'd say "Let me go talk to my manager" after you made an offer, they'd come back "this is what he needs for the car", you counter, they'd say "let me go talk to my manager...". I always thought to myself "Just get the manager our here to talk to me!"
 
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mrsrobinson said:
My gut tells me they are not ready to sell. We could split the difference, I go thru the time/resources to get to closing, then they change their mind again.

The fact that a broker is actually COMMUNICATING with him is amazing, and shocking. Nice job @SeaNile !

The way brokers work these days reminds me of trying to buy a car when you used to sit in front of the sales guy and they'd say "Let me go talk to my manager" after you made an offer, they'd come back "this is why he needs for the car", you counter, they'd say "let me go talk to my manager...". I always thought to myself "Just get the manager our here to talk to me!"
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Funny thing is, they never really talked to the manager. They usually just sat their and BSd each other for 30 min. while you waited. Then the guy claimed "he was really working hard for you." Complete scam. And very irritating, which explains why I am driving a 2014. :)
 
This site just isn't the same without hourly updates on this thread! Anything new transpire in the last 24hrs?

I'm still waiting for the records to be sent to me on a specific boat. I have years of the oil change records but waiting for the real stuff to be sent.
 
Waiting, waiting, waiting to hear back from the selling broker with a counter offer. I came up on my offer against my better judgement. I have too much time/resources wrapped up in this to walk just yet.

Or is that a counter to the counter to the counter agreed price we already reached? ;-)

Wow, you have an oil change service history? Impressive (sarcasm)
 
mrsrobinson said:
For those following along at home...I just got a contract, signed it and returned it. Sellers turn.

I ran a boat history report that showed the boat spent it's first 14 years in Illinois, fresh water I assume. Good news.
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Or raw sewage, take your pick. :)
But do you mean the sellers haven't signed yet. What the hell was the broker waiting for.
 
mrsrobinson said:
For those following along at home...I just got a contract, signed it and returned it. Sellers turn.

I ran a boat history report that showed the boat spent it's first 14 years in Illinois, fresh water I assume. Good news.
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Where at in illinois?
 
mrsrobinson said:
For those following along at home...I just got a contract, signed it and returned it. Sellers turn.

I ran a boat history report that showed the boat spent it's first 14 years in Illinois, fresh water I assume. Good news.
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Where do you get the boat history?
 
I don't know where in illinois, just shows Illinois with the boats name at that point in time. The name was 'Wet Ever II'.

I never put much value in these reports until one showed a boat I was interested in had been in a fire.

Boathistoryreport.com
 
Winterizing question on these 3126 CATs: On my 7.4s I would close the engine raw water seacock, fill a bucket with pink antifreeze, remove the raw water hose at the seacocks, put the end of the hose in the bucket, bumped the engines until I saw good flow of pink out of the exhaust and then pour antifreeze into the seacock/strainer. Is it that simple on the 3126s? Anything unique to this with the 380s?
 
I was excited to learn this boat has auto pilot from the factory (Raymarine factory unit). I have never had one before. Yesterday I learned it does not integrate with the newer Raymarine GPS/Chartplotter the owner installed about 4 years ago, a Raymariene FLIR aSeries.

Does anyone know if the two can be integrated? if not what will I have to do to get the auto pilot communicating the the GPS/Chartplotter?
 
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mrsrobinson said:
I was excited to learn this boat has auto pilot from the factory (Raymarine factory unit). I have never had one before. Yesterday I learned it does not integrate with the newer Raymarine GPS/Chartplotter the owner installed about 4 years ago, a Raymariene FLIR aSeries.

Does anyone know if the two can be integrated? if not what will I have to do to get the auto pilot working again?
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shouldn't be a problem. I have my a128 and a98 both on an nmea2k (seatalkNG) network which is bridged to the old seatalk1 network that was factory, the AP works great. You likely just need the converter. Do you know if the new aSeries is on a SeatalkNG or N2K backbone? Those two are the same they just use different connectors.

something to be careful of, only one of the two networks needs power. I chose to move the power over to the N2k network and remove it from the original ST1 but it should work either way

https://www.raymarine.com/view/index-id=1597.html
 
mrsrobinson said:
I was excited to learn this boat has auto pilot from the factory (Raymarine factory unit). I have never had one before. Yesterday I learned it does not integrate with the newer Raymarine GPS/Chartplotter the owner installed about 4 years ago, a Raymariene FLIR aSeries.

Does anyone know if the two can be integrated? if not what will I have to do to get the auto pilot working again?
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There’s a difference between not integrating and not working :):). Does the pilot still function? It should. It does not need input from a plotter.

My two cents - for most users the integration doesn’t add a ton of value. Heading hold works like a dream whether or not the plotter is part of the game.
 
So this is where I need to learn how to use an auto pilot. It powered up during survey. Surveyors never test electronics from my experience, just check that they power up. Per the seller it works. Per the broker he used it recently when he moved the boat.

So I can use the auto pilot on it's own, without the GPS/Chartplotter?
 
FYI, for those following at home. To make the deal work because of the sellers reneging, my buyers broker offered to step aside and the sellers broker, allegedly, took 2 points off of his commission. I came up a little on my offer as well.
 
mrsrobinson said:
So this is where I need to learn how to use an auto pilot. It powered up during survey. Surveyors never test electronics from my experience, just check that they power up. Per the seller it works. Per the broker he used it recently when he moved the boat.

So I can use the auto pilot on it's own, without the GPS/Chartplotter?
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Yup, the pilot only needs its compass. I use my Ray pilot independent of my newer Garmin gear. Works like a charm.
 
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