38EC Shore Power question
 

I'm preparing my boat house for a 38EC and need some clarification on the shore power requirements. From what I've been able to find so far, (a 38EC brochure) indicates it requires two 120vac/50amp shore power lines. A total of 120v/100 amp shore power requirement for this boat? Is this correct?

Yep! if you want to run the whole boat a/c and all the cabin acc microwave ect you will need to plug in both shore power cords, you wont draw 100 amps as you wont be useing all the options at the same time 50-60 amp draw would be your max spike at any one time.

I have a 2006 EC with two 30 amp /120 volt ac lines, not 50's. I have most all options including the single burner and I can run everthing on the two 30 amp cords. 60 amps total should be fine. If you want to put in a 100 amp panel at the boathouse, that would probably be appropriate so you have extra power for lights and such. Have you purchased the boat yet? Have had ours for four years and it has been a great boat for Florida boating, use 365 days a year. Good luck.

38fountainecman - Thanks for the help. I wasn't 100% sure but it seemed like two 50 amp circuits would be excessive even with everything turned on. Think I'll tap off our panel with two 30 amp circuits as you recommend.

No, I haven't purchased an 38EC yet, but hope to soon. My wife and I just finished building our home in Belhaven, NC (not far from Fountain Factory), and we're in the process of getting our pier and boat house built now.

We just started looking around for a good used 38EC and hope to find one sometime this winter. I assume we'd need a good survey but any suggestions on what to watch out for?

Wow, 365 days of use per year?! Do you live on your EC, or use it for work?

on the 365 days a year, I just meant we boat all year long, not necessarily everyday, wish I could. Fountain supposidly improved the hull in 2007. The 2006 and back have a front stateroom with a cabin door that separates the galley, where in 2007 the front berth is separated from the galley with a curtain. The bravo 1 boat with the 500/525 efi would be a faster boat. Our boat has the 496 mag ho and runs 60+ with the bravo three and I actually put bravo 1's on it to try them and it ran 64 without fine tuning the prop size. We also really like the extended platform, it really makes a difference if you hang out on the back of the boat like we do in Florida. If the windshield frame is corroded, it is an easy fix by removing, sandblasting off the powder coat and paint. We did that and painted the frame red to match the hull sides. Also, Fountain had some issues with the generators getting water forced into the cylinders while running at high speeds. We haven't had that problem. Make sure the generator works. Don't count on the Fountain anchor being easy to use, we ended up just putting a fortras in the front locker, works fine. We love the boat, these are just the usual picky issues that are not uncommon to all brands. I also noticed a staggered 2007 for sale in the NY area on the OSO classifieds a while ago, put bravo 1's on it and it might be a pretty fast boat. Finally, if you can get one with the bow thruster, that may help in docking, it's a pretty tall boat. Good luck in finding one.