Interesting that you ended up with a Predator. I'll have to take a look. I'm a year or two from my next boat and have been really looking at the Princess V series and newer Searay's. I want to be in the mid 50 to 60ft range without pods. That's a great looking boat!
How did you get this panel out?
I did’t... I cheated and put a hole right through the bulkhead behind the TV and used a waterproof bulkhead fitting. Let me know if you figure it out because I pulled and pried but felt like it might break. I would love to see it apart as I heard it is just Christmas trees holding it. I just can’t seem to find the leverage points without damaging the wood.
I'm back....I've had a crazy past 2 months working everyday 14hours a day due to rolling our Cloud Solutions for the Pandemic. My company has been rolling out a number of applications including contact tracing for the State of Ca so I haven't had much downtime. Things are starting to slow so I can get back to working on my boat.
I ordered all the Vacuflush components from Marine Sanitation & Supply which was the bellows, 2" duck bills, and O-Ring kits. I ordered 100" of SHI-1011120 sanitation hose HD 50 Roll 1-1/2" from Jamestown Distributors. That's 2 - 50 foot rolls. For the toilet bowls I ordered the Dometic 385318162 Ball/Shaft/Cartridge kit and the Dometic SE341549 385310063 Floor Flange Kit's from Amazon. The upholstery came out amazing and I'm really happy with this boat. It's a great, somewhat easy boat to work on. I was really glad to get all this work done over the past winter.
I figured in your line of work you got caught up in all this crazy... I was the opposite, couldn’t travel and stuck working from home. Gave me lots of evenings to work on the boat as you can see lol...Now tomorrow I am actually taking my first trip and heading to Georgia. I am so looking forward to this crap to end soon and get back to some form of normal.
I've been working from home as well so I'm looking forward to getting out on the boat....Hell I can do zoom meetings from anywhere, lol. It's great to see all the work you've done on your boat.
Main difference with the sunseeker is galley down vs Searay and newer princess v series is galley up.
Yep, I really like the galley up. I'm pretty impressed with the newer Searay 510 Fly and the Prestige 550 with a few years on it, it's a lot of boat for less than $1M. I'd really like to stay with a shaft drive if possible.
I'm a big fan of the 55/58 Sundancer as well but in my area, MAN mechanics are non-existent and it seems like all MAN maintenance is 2 to 3x that of Cummins or Volvo.
I had my entire aft redone and I had new carpet done with the Corinthian Marine teak look. Here's a shot of the carpet when I had the upholstery out.
We had parts of our cockpit upholstery re done and it matched perfectly.... The captains chair had the arm rest section redone and the rest is original. The passenger seat beside it is original and so is the vinyl on the arch....the U shaped cockpit seating is all new...you can not tell the difference at all... The guy that did it knew exactly where to get the vinyl and knew it would match.
I had the same concern on how good it would match. I just figured if it didn't match and I wasn't happy then I would do it all. I think it looks great and matches well and I'm pretty picky. If your potential canvas/upholstery guy is telling you to do it all it's probably because he wants a bigger job.
