The Time has come…

Before I bought my current 250 i really didnt want the maintenance. Wanted a ‘rake the leaves out’ walk around with outboard. Wife looked at one. Sundancer or nothing.
No raking out leaves with mine. Full cover. The only way to go.
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Mines a single but with a good sized pump-out, macerated head. Stays under cover with a quality cover added for good measure. In less than an hour I'm in the water and tied to my dock.

Life is easy
 
Boredom won't be our determining factor. I'm sure it will be health/age that will do it for me/us. Unfortunately, that time isn't all thar far away. I wanted a decent sized boat before I got too old and found this one a couple years ago knowing it was going to be a reasonably short term toy.

Good luck with your sale.
Same with me. I too have recently been questioning how much longer do I want to spend the money to do this. I paid cash for the boat, so no liens or debts or loans, but the maintenance, slip fees and the cost of fuel sometimes is questionable. Plus we have no diesel mechanics around here so I have to jump in there and figure everything out myself, which I do enjoy, but it becomes a pain in the ass when you're 2 hours from the boat each direction.
 
Thanks guys! I used to enjoy working in the bilge. Learned on a 260DA. Then a 44DB and now 420DA. I am not as flexible as I used to be and I will not miss the maintenance. Not having all of the systems will be nice. The 420DA has been a project. We are 90% complete and will let someone finish it if they so choose.

Bennett
I can relate to this, I'm even dreading the oil change on my twin cats this spring. I think dealing with the overheating issue this past spring and summer emotionally and mentally wore me out, so much so I don't even want to go back into the engine compartment. I bought things over the past couple months to do small projects, thinking about returning those.
 
No raking out leaves with mine. Full cover. The only way to go. View attachment 141505
If the Admiral ever agrees to move to the coast in Florida, Georgia or South Carolina it will be a CC with at least twins for me. Preferably on a dock with a lift in my backyard.
 
She's beautiful, love the new upholstery, wrap and table's ect.
Oh, clean that engine hatch channel. Just bustin "Dawg" Lol

Going into cleaning mode tomorrow. I have everything to paint the engines as well, just need the weather to cooperate. Thanks for the compliments.

Bennett
 
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Rented this Class A to pull the Can am to Tenn in April do some climbing. Can’t wait get out there and do things we love our boating days too now we can move around that’s all this is a dream set up above super c with a stacker

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View attachment 141516Rented this Class A to pull the Can am to Tenn in April do some climbing. Can’t wait get out there and do things we love our boating days too now we can move around that’s all this is a dream set up above super c with a stacker

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The Super C's are bulletproof but as of maybe 5 years ago, they weren't allowed into a number of RV parks that only allow Class A's. I looked at them initially because I drove semis for a while and they put me back in the office for driving. But....none of it came to fruition.
 
The Super C's are bulletproof but as of maybe 5 years ago, they weren't allowed into a number of RV parks that only allow Class A's. I looked at them initially because I drove semis for a while and they put me back in the office for driving. But....none of it came to fruition.

I’ve heard arguments that super C’s are safer because of all the metal out front where as a class A has nothing to slow down a head on collision. I’ve driven freight liners and Mack’s in my career and I have to agree I like having a nose out front not a cab over.
 
Same with me. I too have recently been questioning how much longer do I want to spend the money to do this. I paid cash for the boat, so no liens or debts or loans, but the maintenance, slip fees and the cost of fuel sometimes is questionable. Plus we have no diesel mechanics around here so I have to jump in there and figure everything out myself, which I do enjoy, but it becomes a pain in the ass when you're 2 hours from the boat each direction.
2 hours? I thought you moved the boat from Kent Narrows to be close to home?
 
You must live out in the boonies of VA. I can sure understand. No way id have a boat if i had travel that far. Im getting po because nearest black powder range is nearly an hour away. When i lived ohio it was out my back door.
 
You must live out in the boonies of VA. I can sure understand. No way id have a boat if i had travel that far. Im getting po because nearest black powder range is nearly an hour away. When i lived ohio it was out my back door.
Richmond's not exactly a big city, but it certainly isn't in the boonies.
 
I live in the city, on the North side, and my boat is kept in Woodbridge Virginia, on the Potomac River, about 90 minutes away. I could have kept it 15 to 20 minutes closer to home, further south, but that would have been an extra 40 minutes or so on the water to get to our favorite destinations. Which means burning or fuel. I also wanted a covered slip.

I could keep it on the James river, which is about 20 minutes away, been there done that, not much to do on the James.
 

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