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I have 3 boats and looking for my 4th... so there is my answer...

If you are a scrabbled egg purist that prefers only straight egg and cooked to order you are going to be limited to some of the ideas presented above. I am not so here are my "pre-cooked" gotos for eggs that I prefer over egg only 1) Scrabbled egg casserole, pre cooked in the oven with bacon...

I hung a friend from his feet, head first, from a fork lift to get to the bilge pump on an early 90s sundancer once.....

The common practice at Lake Powell with sportier boats is to lower the pitch to deal with the extra elevation at Lake Powell. Does that hold up with twin engine cruisers also, like a Sundancer 290 with 5.7L mercruisers? Anyone have any experience with Powell in this regard. I figure fully...

penetrating oil and heat... If that doesn't work real easy then I have drilled a hole in the center of the plug, which is really easy on a brass plug. Then repeat oil and heat...

On the two batteries that are wired together for starboard/house/generator, how to you ensure that if the batteries are drained you can still start the generator? Can you set the battery selector or some other method where overnight, you would only run down one of the batteries for house power...

I don't anymore, but the regular sunscreens are still bound to end up all over the place with nearly naked bodies covered in lotions. Arizona sun will burn you in about 20 minutes without them... We are in the 80s now with 90s on the forecast next week.

Its not the swimstep, its the greasy sunscreen that people have all over them when they sit/lay back there. They get in and out of the water all lubed up and it makes it super slippery back there. The spray on sunscreens are the worse because they go every where with a thin sheen of...

That is not my boat. It’s a picture from the swim step manufacture of a 2006 sundancer. Several boats in my marina have them since it’s a local company.

While it is not OEM. This aftermarket makes a really nice swimstep that most people would not recognized as not factory.. http://www.swimplatforms.com/showImages.php?mk=367

I did teak and caulk in my runabout/tender. I started with a rough beam of material and planed and sliced it into 2 1/4 by 1/8 thick strips. I was working in an open boat with all the interior removed from inside a closed shop. I lost track of hours long after I hit the 100 hour mark. I...

Here in AZ at least, if you wanted to be legal towing, its pretty simple. A "WideLoad" banner across the transom and pay 15 or 30 bucks... All done online. Oversize single-trip: $15 Oversize 30-day: $30

I might have removed the bottom seat cushion, but that would have been it. I don't think I fully removed the gunwale insert. I was able to work around it all. I had to do the same thing when I replaced my marine radio antenna. I don't remember how I got the part numbers, I either got them...

What happened to mine is that the cables got stiff and then that caused the control to get weird. I replaced the cables and which was pretty straight forward. I opened up the gunwale insert that holds the whole controller assembly during the process. That allowed me to fully service the...

my sundancer is on the trailer. I unplugged the shore power for 5 days. When I plugged it back in the gauge didn't come up to 120v but I had 120v at the outlets etc. I came back about 6 hours later and now it's reading 80v? Shouldn't the voltage be 120 as soon as it's plugged in? Batteries...

Wow... that is crazy, I will definitely keep this in mind if I am considering SEI vs OEM rebuild. Without hitting something, I would not expect the prop to be able to get enough purchase in the water to twist a driveshaft? Hopefully its behind you from hear out. Here is what my Alpha's with...

Interesting to hear you experience, which helps understand the desire for the bravos! I always hypothesized that water is a constant and prop slip should be relatively constant, so the drives should be sized accordingly without issue regardless of weight. Boating out here in the southwest is...

Curious why would you love bravos over alphas behind 300 hp small blocks? My boat sits in a fresh water slip 8 month a year and on the hard for 4 months. I do all the annual maintenance, down to full rebuild if necessary. Given 5.7L EFI motors at less than 300 hp I can't think of any reason...

I really like the performance of small block v8 twins in a 12000 lbs boat, but I can honestly say that I have never met a person with the twin 4.3s who wasn't happy with them overall. There will be some slight compromise with top end and torque out of the hole when fully loaded, but the v6...

Twin 5.0 and twin 5.7 are the most common around my lake. I have twin 5.7 Alpha Gen 2s. Having owned and maintained both Alphas/bravos to the point of full tears downs, seals, bearings etc... I prefer the alphas for ease and lower cost than the bravos, assuming you are matching alpha drive...