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MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 678
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 11:17 am: | 
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Upgraded to a new raft. 41' Maxum SCA. Not the brand or the salty looking boat I was after but the owner was very anxious and needed out "right now"... so the price reflected it. 115 hours on twin Cummins power.
Very nice inside with 2 heads, 3 TVs, 3 zone climate, gen, full avionics. Very pimpy to say the least! Not sure why i need a wahing machine on my barge but its got one!
Now who wants to buy the first tank of diesel!? |
Leonard Stielper
New member
Username: benny_and_the_jets
Post Number: 3
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 12:42 pm: |
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Sweet! Where was that top shot taken? |
MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 680
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 12:48 pm: |
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You recognize it?? Ping me via email!! |
Rod Stewart
Senior Member
Username: rod_stewart
Post Number: 1286
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 02:02 pm: |
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VERY nice David!
Congratulations.
You're in the big league of "yauchters" now.
Rod |
MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 681
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 02:26 pm: |
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Its quite a rig, Rod. And I'm not getting any younger! |
Troy
Advanced Member
Username: troym
Post Number: 504
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 02:37 pm: |
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Very nice... enjoy your time at the fueling dock!
Diesel around here is going for something around $4.50/gallon. |
MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 683
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 02:42 pm: |
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every vice has its price |
David R Cole
Member
Username: david_ray
Post Number: 80
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 08:20 pm: |
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Very nice. Enjoy the obvious envy.
You can keep it parked at my dock if you leave an "emergency" key in my office! |
Guy Gaspar
Senior Member
Username: guyjg
Post Number: 2013
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 11:35 pm: |
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MistaHays:
Congrats. on the home-away-from-home. Now be a good buddy and send us some more pics. w/chics. |
MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 684
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 07:56 am: |
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Guy - you know how we do it here in DC!! I can't top the boat girl pic i sent last year. |
Rick Root
Member
Username: rickroot
Post Number: 55
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 10:16 am: |
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that's no boat, it's a space station!
(nerd alert! nerd alert) |
Guy Gaspar
Senior Member
Username: guyjg
Post Number: 2023
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 07:36 pm: |
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MistaHays:
Tell the girls you bought a new boat and need their opinions about it. Send the wife to Disney World w/the kids first.  |
MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 691
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 10:34 pm: |
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Maybe we name it the "fannie magnet".
I do need to think of a name. The current name just won't due. |
Guy Gaspar
Senior Member
Username: guyjg
Post Number: 2026
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 12:21 pm: |
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Hot Derrieres Only |
Todd Moore
Advanced Member
Username: concritter
Post Number: 156
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 09:06 pm: |
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Your other condo was very nice.This is really sweet lookin.Have fun with her.I will take a guess the top photo is Balt.Inner Harbor...Todd |
PugetSounder
Advanced Member
Username: pugetsounder
Post Number: 179
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 11:18 am: |
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So does this mean you're abandoning the Mercruiser baord for the Cummins board? You'll be missed  |
MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 694
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 01:10 pm: |
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its a ghost town over there. Maybe that means there are never any problems with those Cummins 330's! One could only hope! |
Troy
Advanced Member
Username: troym
Post Number: 519
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 01:50 pm: |
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I think that means that the poeple that can afford to own them can also afford to have someone else do the work on them! |
Rick Root
Member
Username: rickroot
Post Number: 56
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 01:57 pm: |
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hah, that'z exactly what I was thinking.
(why did I say "thatz" instead of that's? Try following and single s with the word exactly sometime.. crazy!) |
Todd Moore
Advanced Member
Username: concritter
Post Number: 157
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 05:33 pm: |
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A few years ago lots of guys were switching from gas to diesel engines.Now gas is the cheaper fuel, if there is such a thing called cheap anymore.My guess is the soot boys only start them in the spring and fall creating your silence.Ya never know if its broke if it never starts.Would rather hope that its due to them never having any problems.So where was that photo taken at?....Todd |
Peter Chamberlain
Advanced Member
Username: ratmower
Post Number: 571
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 08:19 am: |
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Nice one Mr Hays, thats about the flashest weekend office I have seen for a long time, though compared to your old boat its sort of an old mans vessel.  (just kidding)
When I think about it though, you can fit alot more of those charming young deck ornaments that you sent the pictures of last year, on something that big.
There is no doubt about it, there is some great stuff on the market that is very cheap in your part of the world, I am currently doing a bit of reserch on buying a boat in the good old US of A and shipping it back to the land of Aus as deck cargo.
From what I have seen so far, depending on the boat I can save anywhere around 40 to 60% on what I would buy a boat here for and thats including the frieght.
I may just have to call on the members of this forum to inspect anything I look at over there, rather that or I have a study tour for work and head over myself.
Whats the fuel capacity and range on your new raft.
Cheers
Peter C |
MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 698
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 09:52 am: |
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It somewhat of an old guy looking vessel... but at the ripe old age of 38... I qualify. Besides, I need the office space, and a good place to play cards with my b-school buds.
There are some good deals on the market. This one was not on the market. In a sad tale, a wealthy man built it and named it after his wife. She loved it and unfortunately died suddenly. Its been sitting for 3 years since with all her stuff on board. He hasn't seen it since but has had a guy run it periodically. I asked him through a mutual friend if he would consider selling (at my price) and considering i'm a fix-it-up guy, he agreed. Doesn't need a lot. Needs to be buffed.
Bought it in baltimore, Todd. |
joe alongi
Member
Username: srdancer90
Post Number: 24
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 07:38 pm: |
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Congrads,
All the best enjoy the boat
SRdancer 90
1990 280 DA |
Peter Chamberlain
Advanced Member
Username: ratmower
Post Number: 576
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 08:35 pm: |
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Diesel Price in my area this week $1-67.5 per litre.
I will stick with the gas at $1-54.9 per litre
By the way Mr Hays whats the nightly rent on your barg, it looks like it would be a good place to stay for a night or 2 if I visited your good city, do you supply a hot breakfast.
Cheers
Peter C |
jeff dorman
Member
Username: perch_pirate
Post Number: 24
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 09:46 pm: |
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NICE, VERY NICE,
Pretty cool forum. The big boys and us minnow dunkers all with the same basic love of water and the mechanical means of traversing it. Yet none of the us vs them crap. If only our politicians were boat people......
Jeff |
Peter Chamberlain
Advanced Member
Username: ratmower
Post Number: 578
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 10:08 pm: |
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Jeff
Dont reck the dream mate, we dont want politicians as boat owners otherwise we
would have to have an idiots section added to the forum.
Although, maybe if we did get some politicians on board we may be able to loby for disscount fuel for boat owners. 
Cheers
Peter C |
MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 699
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 05:30 pm: |
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Pete - come and stay as long as you want. The fine print is that you have to fix things on the list. Just brough my rig 220 miles home. Things that broke: transmission, AC cond drain, one sump pump, hailer, radar issues, starboard voltage regulator, cabin door...
AHH THE JOYS OF BOAT OWNERSHIP! |
Peter Chamberlain
Advanced Member
Username: ratmower
Post Number: 582
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 05:56 pm: |
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Hmmmmmmm, a working holiday sounds OK.
I hate working on cars nowdays but for some strange unexplained reason I dont seem to mind being jammed upside down in a bilge working on a marine engine.
I think I should go and get some help
Nothing like that shakedown voyage to cause a few things to break, realisticaly when a boat hasn,t moved for a few years you almost expect problems but it sounds like you bought it cheap enough that you should still have a few penny's put away for repairs.
Problems aside did she handle OK on her first outing.
Cheers
Peter C |
MistaHays
Advanced Member
Username: mistahays
Post Number: 700
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 09:25 am: |
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She did fine. And the price was so favorable.
But i say this in front of all readers as a humble lesson from an experienced mechanic both car and boat: I screwed up!!!
I preach, "no matter what, keep fluids in it and its likely to keep running". But I didn't check the trans fluid after buying and before leaving on my voyage home. It was low - too low to run trough the cooler - and now one is toast and instead of $6 for two quarts of ATF, I get an expensive rebuild!
Makes for a long voyage, but I must admit - its nice to dial in your heading on the autopilot, give the helm to the first officer and go get a hot shower, make some tea and have a nap on a $1000 mattress! |
Todd Moore
Advanced Member
Username: concritter
Post Number: 165
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 04:10 pm: |
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It makes me smile to hear of someone getting a new boat for themselves and having the initial fun time.Along with all those smiles is also the gremlins in the back of your mind saying things like..."c,mon baby,keep going and don't let me down"...Deep down you also know there will be issues that pop up.Well sounds like one did and like all the others- you will overcome it and move on.But-just think of all the fun you just had-only you and those onboard know it.Enjoy the boat,sit back and wait for the next thing to break like any mechanical item....Have a GREAT summer,Todd |
Peter Chamberlain
Advanced Member
Username: ratmower
Post Number: 583
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 06:16 pm: |
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Unfortunatly some of the more memorable problems in ones life, in hindsight could have been avoided.
When I think back, one or 2 less beers all those years ago and I probably wouldnt have to put up with my mother in law. (just kidding ).
Not checking the oil was an expensive mistake but I bet you wont do it again, happy boating.
Cheers
Peter C |
Guy Gaspar
Senior Member
Username: guyjg
Post Number: 2087
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 11:26 pm: |
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Peter: ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Peter Chamberlain
Advanced Member
Username: ratmower
Post Number: 584
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 12:27 am: |
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Guy
Glad you got a giggle out of it.
Actualy I realy do love my Mother in Law.
I particularly love the way she spends alot of time away visiting other relatives.
Cheers
You Know Who |
