Marc Rainaldo
Active Member
Almost a year we have been busy buying this ship and I wrote a lot of emails with questions and we visit the boat in Italy and ask everything.
The bigger the boat, the more systems and complexer everything is. The previous owner also provides us with a lot of spare parts. For example there was a second card plotter on board, just in case the plotter would die underway. These things gave as a good feeling about everything. Main concern for me were the engines and they sounded great. I have pretty much experience with mercruiser engines and this is my first experience with Diesel engines but you can hear a lot when you listening good to the sound of the engines. Yes they were sweaty but that’s normal on Detroit’s what I read.
Strange though that we face almost every problem in the short time we own this ship. For example take the refrigerator. We checked is and it cooled. After two weeks in Netherlands it stopped cooling. I checked thermostat and saw they messed with the wires so that compressor was only on. Propably less fluid or something and they changed the wires. A new refrigerator has to be bought. Couple days After we had the boat in the water, wind was blowing and we heard a boom. The mariphone antenne broke on the plastic thread location. Lol what and how you can check all those things.
I know these things can happen, but I don’t like it when there are issues that kept silent. Also just found out that there is an issue on the oil changer pump. First I was surprised that there is an oil change pump, never had that before. Curious I am tried the switch but nothing. I checked the fuse but no fuse inside. Put a new fuse in and that plopped out. So another problem that kept silent. No fuse was inside because of a reason in my opinion.
But looking at the bright side, we did learn all the ins and outs from a Sea Ray 500 in a very short time
The bigger the boat, the more systems and complexer everything is. The previous owner also provides us with a lot of spare parts. For example there was a second card plotter on board, just in case the plotter would die underway. These things gave as a good feeling about everything. Main concern for me were the engines and they sounded great. I have pretty much experience with mercruiser engines and this is my first experience with Diesel engines but you can hear a lot when you listening good to the sound of the engines. Yes they were sweaty but that’s normal on Detroit’s what I read.
Strange though that we face almost every problem in the short time we own this ship. For example take the refrigerator. We checked is and it cooled. After two weeks in Netherlands it stopped cooling. I checked thermostat and saw they messed with the wires so that compressor was only on. Propably less fluid or something and they changed the wires. A new refrigerator has to be bought. Couple days After we had the boat in the water, wind was blowing and we heard a boom. The mariphone antenne broke on the plastic thread location. Lol what and how you can check all those things.
I know these things can happen, but I don’t like it when there are issues that kept silent. Also just found out that there is an issue on the oil changer pump. First I was surprised that there is an oil change pump, never had that before. Curious I am tried the switch but nothing. I checked the fuse but no fuse inside. Put a new fuse in and that plopped out. So another problem that kept silent. No fuse was inside because of a reason in my opinion.
But looking at the bright side, we did learn all the ins and outs from a Sea Ray 500 in a very short time
