The biggest thing that pisses me off about my boat is not having a windlass, and not having a Jenny. Horrible; however, after a lot of research, there isn’t a cost effective solution. After that, the worst thing about my dancer 240 is going to bed in the v-berth and having the table top support fall out, and/or the cushion slide off. It makes me want to scuttle the boat.Looks like DaveS has started the 260 thread so I'll follow in his wake and start the 240DA thread.
Chime in all you 240DA owners and talk about your boat. If you don't have one and maybe interested in buying one, ask your questions here.
The biggest thing that bothers me about my boat is that no anchor roller came with it. A big over-sight on the design of that boat. Other than that, I wish I had a bigger motor.
It's a great boat for us!
-Mike
Ya, is it 260hp or 300?
All good arguments. My biggest grind is lack of genny. We typically dont even try the v-birth. We sleep in the aft cabin. The windlass can be done and there are a few posts in here where folks have done it. Expensive if you aren't an electrician/fiberglasser/contortionist, however. We have already figured on our next boat. We have also understood this is an entry level. Didnt realise going in. But, we have learned a ton to make good decisions on what our next boat will look like.
All great points. When we were looking to move up, my admiral was between wanting a cruiser and wanting a tritoon. When we found our 240, she knew this was the route she wanted to go and indicated this would be our “trial” boat to see if we both liked it - through I already knew this is the route I wanted to go. She’s already talking about our next one in a few years (probably 5) and wants to settle in for somewhere in the range of a 320 Dancer and a 350 Dancer Coupe. If I had endless buckets of cash, I’d go with a L650 and be done with it but that isn’t in the immediate future! LOL
It's good seeing this forum back as I also have a 240. Maybe we can get more 240 specific stuff on here.
Yes all the other 12v items are working while the battery selector switch is on. I did have it surveyed and the surveyor said for the age of the boat it was "1 out of 100" so I was really happy about that. For the outdrive section it just says "Good condition, no damage and serviceable" It had 81 hours when I got it. After I put 5 or 6 hours the fueling issue popped up. My mechanic just gave the boat back for the cfm and we're going to service the outdrive soon. He said we may need to look into the gimbal bearing and there is a tiny leak of drive oil but he wanted to do it all at once. Not hearing any grinding with turns or high pitch squeal so not sure. Keeping close eye on the drive oil in the meantime. The drone is only at low rpm mainly hear it in the cockpit with hatch closed not necessarily behind the boat (like when I put the ears on). High rpm sounds like a champ.
For the outlets, I'd focus on the fuses now. Reminds me of an issue I had earlier this year where everything 12v was working fine and then I lost the cabin lights. Nothing else...just the cabin lights. In my case, the fuse was fine and they still weren't working. I was getting frustrated so I started tracing the wires to the fuse box under the helm and as soon as I touched the wire for the cabin lights they came on again. Wiggled the wire a bit more and they turned back off, then on, etc. Basically, it came down to the connector on the end of the wire being loose and I just crimped another on.
While in idle you won't have much water coming out of the props, IIRC it comes out of the gimbal housing through idle relief ports. At least thats where mine comes out when on the muffs.
Thanks, I'll check this weekend.
Makes me wonder how well it gets flushed. I guess it needs to run longer with some throttle.
Most likely you will need to have it recovered by a local canvas/upholstery shop.
