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I made the move into a 2001 Sunseeker 44’ Camargue this year. She’s optioned with the 450hp Cat 3208s with roughly 850 freshwater hours. The reason I made the move is because the previous owner was meticulous with maintenance and upkeep and I can literally eat off the bilge floor it’s so clean...

We’ve thoroughly enjoyed this vessel and we’ll be sad to see her go. But we have the opportunity to upgrade to an absolutely mint Sunseeker and we’d be remiss if we didn’t try to make the move. So we’re listing this tastefully updated 400DA for $114,900 and if we get an acceptable offer we’ll...

I have a 1997 400 Sundancer and I’m trying to re-bed the deck hardware due to concerns about minor moisture intrusion caught via survey last summer. The windlass, anchor roller, and hatch were very easy to remove and the core was dry on those areas. So now I’m hoping to find a way to loosen the...

I’m ready to sell our freshwater 1997 400DA with CATs, and I’m struggling to justify the seemingly-standard 10% sales commission with a broker. I understand that a broker has costs and overhead and time, but $11-12k seems steep for a roughly $110k-$120k vessel. So I’m considering listing it...

I spent the better part of my day commissioning all systems on our ‘97 400 Sundancer and found some electrical issues. I believe I have a bad port battery bank, but I’m looking to the forum for some clarification and assistance. The boat was plugged into power and the A/C converter has been on...

My wife and I have a 1997 400DA with the 3116 CATs, and with a new baby and desire to travel more, we're starting to entertain the idea of getting rid of the boat. We've upgraded all the cockpit upholstery, canvas, glass, installed full cockpit SeaDek, baselined the engines, etc. It's in about...

My wife and I love our current 1997 400DA with diesels. We’ve poured a ton of cash and time into upgrading the canvas and upholstery, restoring the gelcoat shine, installing SeaDek, baselining and maintaining the engines and systems, etc. But I always seem to have the itch to move to a 420/44...

My wife and I absolutely love our 1997 400DA. It’s basically the perfect boat for us and how we have traditionally used it. But we recently had our first child, and now we’re looking around the docks and realizing that there are certain items that would really come in handy with a growing...

My father just bought a Regal 2700 bowrider with a double axle trailer. I’m not quite sure of the total weight with fuel and goods on board, but I’m hoping to tow it twice a year (launch in spring and haul-out in fall) with my ‘17 Yukon Denali. Is anyone on here towing something similar in size...

I understand why buying a NEW boat with diesels is considered an upgrade, and hence more expensive. Demand and marketing play a large role in that increased purchase price, but it's also usually a 10-20% price increase on a new boat. But I've always been curious about why a repower with...

This summer, one of our shower sump pumps died. I installed a brand new Sahara 750, but the new one kept kicking on periodically (roughly every 10min it would turn on for less than a second). I assumed it was probably a bad check valve and water was slowly trickling back down the hose into the...

This is a long story, so bear with me. But we bought our 1997 400DA three years ago. It's a freshwater boat with ~1400hrs on both engines. We had the after coolers removed and cleaned when we bought the boat, and baselined all fluids and filters. All the original hoses were replaced last...

So we were out for a sunset cruise tonight and everything was running fine for about 45min. We were mostly cruising between idle and 1300; cocktail speed. After about 45min, the port just died in the blink of an eye. No loss of rpm, no strange behavior, no warning, just dead. It'll turn over all...

My wife and I are FINALLY considering a trip from Sandusky, OH, up to the Detroit Yacht Club or even somewhere on Lake St Clair this August/Sept. Although we're enjoying historically high water levels right now, I expect that will taper off into the fall. So what courses are recommended for the...

I just launched this morning and so far the only thing I can't get working is my A/C raw water pump. It kicks on and spins but you can tell from the sound that it's dry. I have water pouring into the strainer, but a seemingly dry pump. This seems impossible to me. Could I be missing something...

My wife bought me a DJI Mavic Pro for Christmas, and I've had a blast practicing with it and flying it around the neighborhood the last few months. But I want to eventually get proficient enough to hand-launch off the boat, make videos of the boat running at speed, orbit, follow us into a...

We moved slips last year and now we only have about 12" clearance on either side. We back into our own well with a fingerdock on both sides, and after one full season I never really got into trouble with it. But I also know that a strong crosswind will essentially make this an effort in futility...

We have a 1997 400DA with what I believe to be original electronics. The autopilot (Raymarine type 100 with RayPilot 650) seems to have died, and I'm struggling to get it functioning again. The radar is the original Raymarine open-array with Pathfinder RL80C and the GPS is a Raymarine RN300. I...

Long story short, I'm having a heck of a time diagnosing the issue with my autopilot setup. I lost the rudder indicator a few months ago, and then a few weeks after that the whole RayPilot screen went blank. The local Raymarine tech got it powered up only to diagnose the original problem as a...

I have a '97 400DA with a RayPilot 650 autohelm. After a bit of diagnostics, I have come to the conclusion that the computer is shot. I can find a Raytheon Type 100 or Type 300 computer on eBay, but I can't find my own computer to save my life! It's not down in the engine compartment (at least...