JackLabs
New Member
- Apr 24, 2020
- 23
- Boat Info
- 300 Sundancer
- Engines
- Twin 5.7 Mercruiser w/Bravo III
Greetings,
I took possession of a 16 year old 2004 Sea Ray 300 over this past weekend.
So many more questions then answers at this point but I have a couple that caused lack of sleep last night that I would enjoy getting input on. I will be a weekend summer boater with the boat located about 45 miles from the house at a marina with water and shore power hook ups. I no doubt have some issues with some systems on the boat to work through (fix). I have been around boats but this is the first ownership of a boat of this magnitude.
1. "Seacocks" keeping in mind that the boat is new to me - Do I close seacocks upon leaving the boat for the week? To include engine, raw water, generator?
2. I left Shorepower hooked up but turned nearly every switch off. On the AC side I left the outlets and fridge and AC convertor on. On the DC side I left the fridge on. Left the panel of course switched to AC / Shore. I did NOT however turn the two large battery switches in the aft port distribution box off (which was my cause for poor sleep). The air conditioning is currently not functioning (lost prime I THINK) so there was no need to leave it on.
If need be I can break away from work, make the drive, and correct these but would like to save the trip if able. Thanks for input.
I took possession of a 16 year old 2004 Sea Ray 300 over this past weekend.
So many more questions then answers at this point but I have a couple that caused lack of sleep last night that I would enjoy getting input on. I will be a weekend summer boater with the boat located about 45 miles from the house at a marina with water and shore power hook ups. I no doubt have some issues with some systems on the boat to work through (fix). I have been around boats but this is the first ownership of a boat of this magnitude.
1. "Seacocks" keeping in mind that the boat is new to me - Do I close seacocks upon leaving the boat for the week? To include engine, raw water, generator?
2. I left Shorepower hooked up but turned nearly every switch off. On the AC side I left the outlets and fridge and AC convertor on. On the DC side I left the fridge on. Left the panel of course switched to AC / Shore. I did NOT however turn the two large battery switches in the aft port distribution box off (which was my cause for poor sleep). The air conditioning is currently not functioning (lost prime I THINK) so there was no need to leave it on.
If need be I can break away from work, make the drive, and correct these but would like to save the trip if able. Thanks for input.