16 Hemingway
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- Oct 3, 2018
- 81
- Boat Info
- 2013 370 venture
- Engines
- mercury verado's
pretty big to trailer. I own one, but never intended to trailer.
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I bought my Venture 3 years ago in Pompano Beach. I had it transported on a trailer from there to the Panhandle. They removed the anchor light mast (laid it down) and the radar dome only. It may have been over 13-6, but most bridge clearance today is considerablely over that. You need an over width permit to haul anyway and the route can be planned to check overhead clearances.Do any owners out there trailer your Venture? If so, did you have the radar arch hinged? Or, do you take the arch apart at the seam with the hull structure and lower it? In talking with trailer manufacturers they say there isn't enough clearance to trailer below 13' 6" w/out doing one of the above. Curious what you all do?
Thx. -A
. Do the battery covers completely cover all that exposed metal? I’m guessing they will, I know my boat was dinged twice during the survey for not having boots on a battery cable and on one of the starters.Have a little more clean up of the cables and have to install the battery covers .
My boat did not have battery covers either . They were the original batteries . Here is the picture with the covers.
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Exciting times. Looking forward to pics and hearing about your experience.Getting close to owning a 370 Venture! Both surveys went well. Sea trial is next Saturday. And financing is preapproved. 1 week to go and I can't wait for this week to go by! I'll update next weekend.
so we have agreed on price and terms , looks like this deal is going to happen . I really like this boat . I'm a performance guy , everything i own has been modified and so will this boat . Here are a few things i have planned . First , i'm in the Lithium battery business , so this boat, like my other, will be getting a set of custom built lithium batteries . I have to decide how i want to build them . Option one would have the same useable capacity as the boat currently has . Option 2 would have 3x the house capacity . This would be if i decide to install a huge inverter . Probably start with the smaller pack and then increase if i go the inverter route . Battery pack will 200lbs lighter than what is in there .
Second thing is a reflash of the verado's . This is a popular thing here in florida . Increasing torque in the 3500-4500 range . This will make the boat get on plane much faster . Top speed will be faster but i wont use it . 40mph is fine for me .
Third , new props . Going with more blade surface area . This boat has high prop slip , part of that is to make up for lower hp . With the increased hp should be able to go up 1" of pitch . Combined with the lower slip ,rpm's at 31mph should drop from 5,000 rpms to 4500 . Or at the same rpm cruise at 36mph . The newer props also have vents in them which make getting on plane even easier .
That will get me started . Open for any improvements others have done and recommend .
5/17/19 Go with a BRAND NEW SET OF 370 SDA 18"x22" Light Cup I do Have setso we have agreed on price and terms , looks like this deal is going to happen . I really like this boat . I'm a performance guy , everything i own has been modified and so will this boat . Here are a few things i have planned . First , i'm in the Lithium battery business , so this boat, like my other, will be getting a set of custom built lithium batteries . I have to decide how i want to build them . Option one would have the same useable capacity as the boat currently has . Option 2 would have 3x the house capacity . This would be if i decide to install a huge inverter . Probably start with the smaller pack and then increase if i go the inverter route . Battery pack will 200lbs lighter than what is in there .
Second thing is a reflash of the verado's . This is a popular thing here in florida . Increasing torque in the 3500-4500 range . This will make the boat get on plane much faster . Top speed will be faster but i wont use it . 40mph is fine for me .
Third , new props . Going with more blade surface area . This boat has high prop slip , part of that is to make up for lower hp . With the increased hp should be able to go up 1" of pitch . Combined with the lower slip ,rpm's at 31mph should drop from 5,000 rpms to 4500 . Or at the same rpm cruise at 36mph . The newer props also have vents in them which make getting on plane even easier .
That will get me started . Open for any improvements others have done and recommend .
My broker provided me sakes data when I bought my 320, not sure how accurate it is. Others have said its all on the sellers to be truthful, no verification.I'm thinking of selling my Venture. Want to go to a bit smaller day boat. Does anyone have recent sales data?