45Gunner
Active Member
- Sep 22, 2019
- 191
- Boat Info
- 2000 460 Sundancer. Garmin 8612 XSV, GHC 20 Autopilot, GMI 20, 215 VHF, GC 12, Fantom Radar.
- Engines
- Twin 450 Diamond Series 6CTA 8.3M Cummins.
This coming Tuesday is the Survey and Sea Trial of a 2000 460 Sundancer with twin Cummins Diamond Series 6CTA 8.M engines. This boat shows nearly new and has only 750 hours total time. I am concerned about the low usage but I'm told it spent most of its life on a lake in Colorado.
I'm very comfortable with the Surveyor but would like some input from 460 DA owners as to what to watch out for. Any shortcomings you may have found/discovered with your boat that you may want to pass on? What to watch out for? Things to avoid? 8KW Westerbeake generator with 350 hours also very low time. What we do know for sure is that it is due for bottom paint and the cockpit ice maker apparently failed some time back and was never replaced. We will most likely replace it with a refrigerator and I have already lined up a yard to do the bottom paint. We did not "steal" the boat but I think the owner is happy to get what I'm paying and I'm happy to pay it if the survey proves the boat to be in as fine shape as it looks.
When we did our first inspection of the boat we discovered the electric sofas would not retract back into the sofa position from the bed position by themselves. Forum members have told me that it needs a little "help" to retract. Has anyone had the motors for the sofas fail completely?
I'm having the pre-purchase jitters as the broker is different from all the brokers I have used before. He is more like a used car salesman or a snake oil salesman, always in motion, always talking and moving very fast, whereas all the other brokers I had dealt with were low key, mellow guys.
We have looked at not less than 50 boats up and down the east coast and I have researched maybe close to another 1000 boats via Boat Trader, More Boats, and etc.
My wife and I had put a deposit on another boat that looked to be well kept and maintained. The survey discovered a major termite infection which resulted in structural damage. We walked away from that boat. We were dejected and disappointed yet happy and elated that we had a good surveyor. (I would have liked to used that same surveyor but he was not available on the day everyone else was.) We are trying not to get excited about this beautiful boat until after a successful survey. The suspense is making us crazy. Any and all input is appreciated.
I'm very comfortable with the Surveyor but would like some input from 460 DA owners as to what to watch out for. Any shortcomings you may have found/discovered with your boat that you may want to pass on? What to watch out for? Things to avoid? 8KW Westerbeake generator with 350 hours also very low time. What we do know for sure is that it is due for bottom paint and the cockpit ice maker apparently failed some time back and was never replaced. We will most likely replace it with a refrigerator and I have already lined up a yard to do the bottom paint. We did not "steal" the boat but I think the owner is happy to get what I'm paying and I'm happy to pay it if the survey proves the boat to be in as fine shape as it looks.
When we did our first inspection of the boat we discovered the electric sofas would not retract back into the sofa position from the bed position by themselves. Forum members have told me that it needs a little "help" to retract. Has anyone had the motors for the sofas fail completely?
I'm having the pre-purchase jitters as the broker is different from all the brokers I have used before. He is more like a used car salesman or a snake oil salesman, always in motion, always talking and moving very fast, whereas all the other brokers I had dealt with were low key, mellow guys.
We have looked at not less than 50 boats up and down the east coast and I have researched maybe close to another 1000 boats via Boat Trader, More Boats, and etc.
My wife and I had put a deposit on another boat that looked to be well kept and maintained. The survey discovered a major termite infection which resulted in structural damage. We walked away from that boat. We were dejected and disappointed yet happy and elated that we had a good surveyor. (I would have liked to used that same surveyor but he was not available on the day everyone else was.) We are trying not to get excited about this beautiful boat until after a successful survey. The suspense is making us crazy. Any and all input is appreciated.