Bentwings
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hi, I’ve been away for a while hospital, injury, and wintering on my existing boat.
I really, really need a larger boat. I found a 2000 40 foot express cruiser right in my back yard almost. I know there is a special section for these but I thought it might be best here in general.
So this sweetly has only 400 hours on it and 1 hour on the gen. It’s wintered on shore and I think covered. I had not even considered these before as they are mostly gas boats up here. I really was looking for a diesel boat but after a lot of digging I decided for up here in Minn on the big river the gas boat is probably better.
So this boat seems to be a cream puff. It’s more money than I wanted to spend but if I don’t have to do a lot of updates it might be a Berber deal.
I know slip fees will be greater shrink wrap is more and these are gas hogs. I’m not a speed demon especially on the river. Hitting a log or anything at speed is going to be expensive. My neighbor hit a log last spring and wiped out a prop, drive shaft and strut. Several thousand to repair by the time he was done. I’ve hit one but at barely making headway o it just made a terrible noise. No damage. So anyway this boat looks pretty nice in the pictures.
Are these motors carb motors or EFI motors. 7.4 Mercury.
It says only one head. Is this correct?
It has mahogany colored interior. I looked at one a year ago that had serious delamination of the interior panels. Hope this is not the same boat. There aren’t many pictures of the engine room. It says 5 new batteries. Probably good deal there. The interior looks nice. It says leather seating. Electric bunk. Nice forward berth.
What kind of anchor and winch might this have. Foot pedal control? It’s got a huge gas tank over 300 gallons. You could easily put @$1000 in the gas tank here.4-4.50 per gal,in the summer. Yikes.
Would the AC have R22 refrigerant? Bad deal as it’s no longer even made so as supply’s dwindle the price will go up. It has dual AC I think. Would consider bargaining this point as the new units are very efficient. And easily serviced. My new one has built in Gages right on the unit.about 4 grand for two units.
I haven’t seen any 40-410 with washer dryer in them. Space would be an issue. This one doesn’t have an abundance of canvas. They do have a lot of space in the rear so I could live with what is there.
I’d like to hear what others think about these boats.
Thanks
I really, really need a larger boat. I found a 2000 40 foot express cruiser right in my back yard almost. I know there is a special section for these but I thought it might be best here in general.
So this sweetly has only 400 hours on it and 1 hour on the gen. It’s wintered on shore and I think covered. I had not even considered these before as they are mostly gas boats up here. I really was looking for a diesel boat but after a lot of digging I decided for up here in Minn on the big river the gas boat is probably better.
So this boat seems to be a cream puff. It’s more money than I wanted to spend but if I don’t have to do a lot of updates it might be a Berber deal.
I know slip fees will be greater shrink wrap is more and these are gas hogs. I’m not a speed demon especially on the river. Hitting a log or anything at speed is going to be expensive. My neighbor hit a log last spring and wiped out a prop, drive shaft and strut. Several thousand to repair by the time he was done. I’ve hit one but at barely making headway o it just made a terrible noise. No damage. So anyway this boat looks pretty nice in the pictures.
Are these motors carb motors or EFI motors. 7.4 Mercury.
It says only one head. Is this correct?
It has mahogany colored interior. I looked at one a year ago that had serious delamination of the interior panels. Hope this is not the same boat. There aren’t many pictures of the engine room. It says 5 new batteries. Probably good deal there. The interior looks nice. It says leather seating. Electric bunk. Nice forward berth.
What kind of anchor and winch might this have. Foot pedal control? It’s got a huge gas tank over 300 gallons. You could easily put @$1000 in the gas tank here.4-4.50 per gal,in the summer. Yikes.
Would the AC have R22 refrigerant? Bad deal as it’s no longer even made so as supply’s dwindle the price will go up. It has dual AC I think. Would consider bargaining this point as the new units are very efficient. And easily serviced. My new one has built in Gages right on the unit.about 4 grand for two units.
I haven’t seen any 40-410 with washer dryer in them. Space would be an issue. This one doesn’t have an abundance of canvas. They do have a lot of space in the rear so I could live with what is there.
I’d like to hear what others think about these boats.
Thanks
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