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Hello all, one of the things why we fell in love of our 500da was the layout from the dashboard. It’s almost a cockpit from a plane. When we signed the owners contract I start to fantasise what I gonna do with the dash when our ship arrived in the Netherlands. Definitely it would be one of the...

Hello all, need some help with new gauge. I changed all the old gauges for the Lido veethree gauges. All gauges working except the tachogauge. It’s model nr 63524FE that should be wired to the alternator. The gauges work on 12v My system is 24v, therefore I use a reducer from Victron. With my...

When we did our own survey on our boat we noticed a soft spot around the windless and took that in our offer. Unfortunately after we transported the ship to Netherlands A lot of things suddenly broke. Finally, 1,5 year later, during the winter storage we had time to fix this soft spot. Almost...

Hello all, bussy with fixing a soft spot around windlass. I want to remove a hatch Bottom side under the anchor chute. There are 2 holes but no screws inside. Any thought would be appreciate.

Hello all, since we have our 94 500da with a tntlift we had many issues. The cilinders were rotten, seals were bad etc. I did tried to weld the holes in the cilinders but new once came. Now the boat is tucked in we ordered new cilinders. No more leaks. I noticed that port side goes down and up...

On our 500da we have a valve board that has a valve with return. This valve is next to the generator valve. Does anyone knows of this return valve is the return fuel from the generator or from engines or both? thanks for effort.

Old pump stopped working. Inside was rusty. Cleaned everything but the half of a special plastic seal was disappeared. Got it running but got oil leaking. Sometimes it’s better to replace the old for a new.For sure the pumps in Europe has different thread sizes so I ordered the reverso in US. 3...

Hello all. I have a problem with my generator. Already read a lot of post but now I am stucked. When survived the boat last year with previous owner the generator worked. Must say only tested short time. After our ship arrived in the Netherlands it didn’t work anymore. Last days I try to make it...

After a perfect weather day this evening is incredible. Temperature is good and the wind is blowing softly. Had to share this moment.

Just came to visit harbor ‘Vlissingen’ Port of Admiral de Ruyter. The boat in front of us is the Sea Ray 310. That type we had before. We were a bit shocked by the difference of size.

Hello all how are you? since we bought our boat in august 2019 we spend so many hours on fixing and upgrading that finally 3 days ago we went out for a two week trip. First thing we did was filling the diesel tanks. Already bought a new gauge and measured the sensors before. while filling...

Hello all, just upgraded my mastervolt system with a combimaster 3000. Already had a chargemaster 12/25 from advise from a local distributor I bought the smartremote control display. Awesome display but only could monitor the combimaster. The distributor says that maybe the chargermaster needs...

Hello all, I really need some advice about 2 options for bringing power to my bowthruster that I gonna install in about two weeks on our 500DA. Bowthruster: Sidepower SE120/215T 24V Option 1: installation of 2 230Ah batteries next to the bowthruster. Batteries will be charged by mastervolt...

Hello all, another big project: upholstery of the round sofa in the salon. 1 thing when you buy a used boat from 1994 is that you have to put a lot of work in it. The risk that al cushions are worn out is big. But with a little effort (read a lot) you can make everything new. This is the first...

Hello all, One of the first and best DIY jobs of our new boat was the customization of the tracvision tv4 and I think it’s a good thing to post this here to help many others so that they can use their tracvision tv4 for many more years instead of buying a €13k new tracvision. (In my story I...

Hello all, Past augustus we made our first action in our new 500da. We did a test trip to see how our boat goes in plane. On start we had some black smoke but that disappeared very fast (dirt in turbo). We heard on high rpm a high sound. After this trip we did some trips on low rpm with no...

Hello all, When you just bought your new ship and faced different numbers of problems in the first few weeks it’s always nice to make a trip with your family. Of course they are proud and curious too. In the harbor I always maneuver on my twin engines. I make sure my steering wheel is in the...

Really the first thing what we do when we buy a new ship is trowing the sleeping mattress away. When we picked up the ‘Summertime’ in Slovenië we brought a 8cm toplayer mattress with us and slept on that till last month when the new mattress was made. We love interior styling from the 90’s...

When we first wrote the previous owner of our interest the previous owner told us that the canvas need some attention. My father has worked all his life in the confection and still has sewing machines we thought that some reparations will do the job and next year we could get a new canvas. When...

Hello all, here another job that has to be done. Unbelievable how many things got broken in the first month after buying our dreamboat. The previous owner didn’t boat the last two years and we found out in almost everything that he didn’t lie. One of those bummers where the cushions. When we...