+1 We have lake at the house, just need about 200 ft of dock now :lolhit:

Yes.

Never got instructions on how to work it so I just use the gps. :lolhit:

Was the flybridge added later? Seems like you want your radar up high with the least amount of obstructions (obstructions = blind spots on a radar). You are even looking down on your anchor light! :)

Baja calls it a 38 Special, LOL!!!
Here's a link to some pic's and questions I had about her during our negotiations with the contract.
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/b...know-boat.html
It hasn't made it out of the indoor starage yet in New Hampshire for the vessel/powertrain surveys and the sea trial.
The insurance I was quoted came in a little over a 1000 per year.
It really sucks that I talked to the seller Saturday and he said they'd had 18 more inches of snow the night before, now it could be mid May before it's available to be gone over.

4bus, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to go off topic and hijack your thread. Personally I'd love to own a 40'+ diesel Mainship performance trawler and any 35'+ OL. NorTech, Cig etc.. to truly enjoy both worlds in.
But, I sure don't see that happening, LOL!!!

See ya,
Kelly

Funny you mentioned, heard someone just requested to have one built.
Think it may get done with staggered 1350's.:drink:

You obviously married the wrong women :lolhit:

Luckily for me, my wife can't stand cruisers .......

phuck yeah it matters:drink:

Not enthused about the side view, but the cockpit and cabin made me interested. Love cockpit galleys. Sleeps six, not bad for a 30

http://www.fourwinns.com/model/V305/photos_video

Love the layout

It's a standard Sea Ray fly bridge boat.. I dont have a radar arch which would be ideal I grant you that. But like I said I never us it and never needed to.

Now thats a ride......... That 47 in the classifieds got my eye.

HAHAHAHA....that had to be one of the best post's so far this year.... We did the cruiser thing too...bought the wife a 280 Sundancer a couple of years ago to keep her happy.... All I have to do is keep it clean and stocked up...

It worked great for me I didn't hear a peep out of her when I bought some new Eddie Young motors last year for mine....although she does make a few snide comments about my "girlfriend" from time to time....lol

I would have waited on the Sonic......sorry for your loss.

Everytime someone mentions moving to a crusier, I have to post these pics. This Doral was a sleeper!!!!

'03 Potomac River Poker Run

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...am/doral01.jpg

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...am/doral02.jpg

What did you do to that thing?

Not mine, I'm the driver in the pic in my Checkmate.

Has this ever happened to you???

Here's the scenario.....

You stop at a red light in your brightly painted, loud, hot rod Mustang GT or Camaro - girlfriend in the passenger seat. A Saab turbo pulls up next to you with a yuppie driver, window up and AC running. He gives you the eye just before the light turns green...You figure this will be easy and you let the yuppie jump you out of the gate. Then as he's pulling you hard through second gear you grind the crap out of third while sweating bullets trying to get around the guy. Finally you barely pull ahead just before you get to the next light. Then, you make up some mechanical BS story to your girlfriend on why you didn't blow his azz clean off the road.

My dad was riding on the back seat that day on the poker run and he's 260#
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I can't believe the bow lift on that thing, did he have surface drives?

Part of the reason I like the idea of a cruiser this year is I hope I won't have to wrench on it.....that one looks like it requires some wrenching

Nolan.....how the hell you been? Don't think I won't run this pig in the swamp run :) hahah

I thought this one would be great for Florida all the way up here. Close to 60 mph with twins, it's a bowrider, cockpit galley, pretty large cabin.

The last two years, some of these builders have done some serious rethinking. I love the cockpit galley, and what they done for cabin room.

http://www.boatingmag.com/boats/crui...7-ssx?page=0,1

She is not a big fan either, and no disrepect but I see you have a 26 outlaw in you profile. Not sure if you still have that, but for us that size go fast is our all time least favorite boat. No room and they don't stay in the water. Have been down that road twice.

At least someone is getting some Big Daddy

No worries, I hijack threads all the time :grinser010:

Cool.

Not that I would spend 300k plus on a cruiser, but this is the most use of space I have ever seen, and twin BBC. Full bow rider, deck boat with a real full size cuddy underneath.

http://www.chaparralboats.com/2011/c...13&page=images

I see we had our eyes on the same boat .

I'm dying to see one in person. Nice to see someone's actually thinking outside the box at the boat companies now. For more of a cruising and sleepover boat, the new Four Winns is also pretty fantastic. Huge cabin/cockpit for a 30'.

Ya neat idea, just too much beam. I don;t ever want to lose the ability to trailer.

Waiting for someone hear to chime in a tell me to go somwhere else to chat, like bigfatuglycruiser.com :eek:

Somebody done scared her so much she jumped plum out of the water.
Mat, was it your boat that instilled so much fear in her that she jumped out of the drink and ran for her life, LOL!!!

Way to go!!! That is certainly one wicked cool pic of a cruiser at speed.

See ya,
Kelly

Don't feel like the Lone Stranger, one of my bud's welcomes me there while the other laughs at me, LOL!!!
And in the meanwhile I'm stuck somewhere here in the No Mans Land in between them.

See ya,
Kelly

4bus- go to www.bigfatuglygalsncruisers.com :lolhit:

P.S. Call 272bajadriver. He has a sweet GREEN 330 for sale that would
look great in that turtle you just bought. :eek:

Mine has a 10' beam and trailered no problem.

HA! Pretty much the same thing happened to me. I know you all hate jet skis, but I took a girl out one afternoon on my Sea Doo RXP. I thought this was the fastest thing on the water! We used to meet by the damn near the evening and race at our small lake and nobody was even close. Well this one day I was hanging at the beach with a girlfriend and this lady who was probably 40+ and portly came up on some 3 seater sea doo. She kept checking my ski out and then asked me if I wanted to run them? I kinda laughed and said, I guess? So we pulled around by the dam and I thought I would be nice and give her a little jump and just blow her doors off. Well, she launched and I couldnt catch her! So we turned around and I told her lets race back, figuring I would launch hard and smoke her. We both left at the same time and she beat me by 3 lengths! I ended up cruising back to the beach with my tail btw my legs. That night I ordered a bigger SC and some other equipment but never saw her again.:eek:

I have 18 foot of beam on mine the hull is certified for 49 passengers. For go fast, I can pull the 18 Donzi up on the lift. Who needs a little stabbin cabbin when you have 3 staterooms anyway?

For the engine buffs, it has 2 1271 TI's and 2 15kw gens in walk in engine rooms.

I would not apologize for having a cruiser.

Can't we just have the best of both worlds? http://www.thelifeofluxury.com/the-w...-luxury-yacht/

Yikes, mine is burning around 4 gallons a mile on plane. Hell, I am proud it will plane. Those big high speed yachts......unreal. I guess that if you have one of those, fuel is a small concern.

You need to stay on this forum till I get my 32' all fixed up:)

I was looking at an '89 272 Formula and went with a '90 270 Sundancer (290 by todays standards) and I now have an arch!. The 272 had small blocks and the 270 has a single 454 Bravo1. My wife really liked the cruiser and the cabin is awesome. The open deck space is very nice too. We still have three boats and the Carlsons still get used for skiing and tubing. We hope to travel this summer and spend some days living on the Sundancer and relaxing. I said I would give it a try and we now spend twice as much time on the water and nights out on the hook. It all depends on the lifestyle you want, Mike.

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...16_Running.jpg
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...3/MVC-013S.jpg
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...0703001633.jpg
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...70Interior.jpg

I had a chance to buy this 272 a few years ago....it has a nice home now I've been told! The seller was in MI and my tow vehicle then was too small! One of my favorite factory paint jobs.
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...hedriveway.jpg

I used to hang with a bunch of cruiser guys....said "used to" because almost all of their boats are now either dry docked or sold.....but what I find with those things is their just waterborne mobile party platforms.....you can eat/sleep/party on them really well but they are no fun to drive whatsoever.....take a fast corner and there is s hit flying all over the place.

They used to say that my boat "is too one dimensional"...I would say "NO....your boat is too one dimensional....the only thing that thing does well is party".....theres no comparison between going for an all day cruise (actual boating!) in my boat compared to a cruiser....the speed/handling/acceleration, no comparison.....in actuality they almost never went on an all day cruise.....their idea of a "run" would be to cruise out to the various nearby party spots (no more than an hour of actual "boating") and party all day then come back...it gets old.....in reality many cruisers in our Marina never leave the dock.....we have a lot of water up here and my idea of a run is to be out for 9 or10hrs with at least 5 or6 of it underway, the bulk of it at my economical 35 - 40mph cruise speed taking in the sights with occasional blasts to 65....actual boating!...the cruiser guys would do something like that once a summer and it would be their "big trip".....we do this every weekend

They overnight more comfortably than me but as my wife once said "its not about how much stuff you can bring its about how much stuff you can leave at home....."

OR....you could buy mine and be done. Where else will you find a 32 with AC and heat, not to mention all the custom made pieces parts. :evilb::drink:

You would be surprised how much that has changed. I just left working on private yachts, but still have many friends who do. This winter my friend went to the carribean from florida on the yacht he works on. It cost $38000 in fuel each way, for the owners to have a one week vacation. Many yachts are sitting now since the cost is so high. Now I am not saying that it is a big concern, but for the price of fuel, anyone of these people can fly anywhere they want and have the most bad azz hotel penthouse around. So people really are not using the yachts as much as previous years.

If you think going fast is expensive .
Buy a Cruiser use it for a year or two then sell it because it wasn't what you thought it would be .
I found out .

Paul

I sure hope my wife doesn't find this thread.:lolhit:

No, they are not an alternative to a place to stay. My wife and I like to run to Chatt for an evening of dinner and drinks. We can jump in the Donzi, dock up downtown and rent a hell of a suite for far less than taking the Roamer.

That being said, I would not trade that for an overnight on the big boat. The trip is half the fun.

Many don't get the cruising thing. Those that do, love it. I always have and will. I don't really see them as an alternative to fast boats, just another dimension.

Me, I just love being on the water. Taking a slow cruise down the gorge is great. I also had a great time blasting down the gorge at 85 last weekend.