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Rod27

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  1. I have a brand new DRS4a open array radar....it was delivered with the boat from the factory brand new. It was on for 3 weeks and i used it twice....works perfect. But i realized i need something bigger so i had to upgrade. Asking $3500 obo...includes open array 3.5ft wand and DRS4a gearbox and cables. Will deliver free in South Florida area. Email me if u want to see pics at tcalea@yahoo.com

    bump.....$3000 obo

  2. I have a brand new DRS4a open array radar....it was delivered with the boat from the factory brand new. It was on for 3 weeks and i used it twice....works perfect. But i realized i need something bigger so i had to upgrade. Asking $3500 obo...includes open array 3.5ft wand and DRS4a gearbox and cables. Will deliver free in South Florida area. Email me if u want to see pics at tcalea@yahoo.com

  3. Hate to rain on your parade, but this is probably a four cylinder engine--you didn't mention, but I am assuming since most of them were--and this boat is notoriously underpowered with that engine. The seller may have forgotten to mention that to you.

    With the perfect prop and full rpms, you'll still probably have to ask people to go into the front of the cabin to get her to plane and then you'll have to run her in the kitchen, probably at least 38 or 900 rpms to keep her on plane. Just the nature of the beast and one in a long line of underpowered boats by Bayliner.

    If it should happen to be a v-8, you have a simple prop problem.

    did it get on plane when u seatrialed it?...how long have u had the boat and when did it start doing this?

  4. fished the boat for the first time today.....ive never felt the sensation of slicing a wave like a knife thru butter before today. Seas were 20-25 knots from the NE but the seas had not turned around yet from yesterdays ESE 20-25, so the seas were 3-5 confused early. Later in the day they were 2-4 from NE. I have alot to learn. Subprime/Blue Bayou....i need some help with the livewell setup and to pick your brain a bit.

  5. I completely disagree. Although the youth towing the boats without lights was a major factor contributing to the mishap, that in itself did not take the lives of the others. What did take their lives was the vessel riding up and over the other vessel. If you are traveling at night or in limited visability you are supposed to post a lookout at the bow and proceed with all due caution. What if it were your boat and you lost all electric power, would that give someone the right to plow over you. I don't think so.

    There are no accidents, only mistakes. Just my opinion.

    I agree, no one should be driving fast enough at night to launch their boat over another. While the lack of lights was a major factor, the Intrepid never should have been on plane after dark. I am always amazed at how fast people will go at night. Boats don't have headlights! If we still enforced maritime law, I bet the Intrepid owner would have been in some deep doodoo.

    i had the unfortunate duty to take care of one of the kids that was hospitalized.....a teenage kid from PR with multiple injuries and a severed finger if i remember. The PTSD was worse. I myself was almost run over in the bay a year after that happened. I had all my lights on and was running on a new boat. Now i wont run that slow at night and run around 30-40mph with the radar kicking, and it lights up lobster or stone crab buoys. How can a 35ft Intrepid not have radar?

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