I have a Ray Marine 45 STV Satellite dome from a previous owner already installed on my 405. The antenna unit powers up and tracks DTV at this time. I am trying to figure out what is needed to make the unit work at the TV's. I currently have DTV but may switch to Dish network for the boat use as I believe that Dish receives both analog and HD signals where DTV does not. I contacted DTV and it appears that you need a D12 or H24 receiver, but they want $100 plus a two year contract that they don't ...

In the early 2000's vintage I am sure we all have similar speaker grills in the salon. I want to tale them off to clean them up and get rid of a bit of rust around the edges. How do, or do they come off.






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Fraser

After I got off work I headed down to the boat to spend the next 2 days here. A couple of projects to finish up. It is 50* outside with a pretty good north wind blowing. I got inside the boat and the temp was 54*. I fired up my 2 electric heaters one in the salon and one in the aft cabin to take the chill out.



Its supposed to get down to 46* so I think I will keep the heater in the salon area on tonight. I also have a reverse cycle AC/heat system but the electric heaters are a bit more quiet to r ...

We'll be looking at a 2005 360 Sport Sedan this Saturday. It has 327 hours on the Volvo 8.1s. This boat weighs in at roughly 22,000 lbs. Does anyone have this model with the big block engines? If so, what kind of fuel consumption could be expected at, say, WOT, cruise speed, and toodling along (technical navigation term) at 10mph? I think I read somewhere that max RPM is 5000 rpm for that engine and cruise speed is around 22 mph at 3500 rpm. No idea what range the rpms would be for 10ish m ...

Going to look at a 1993 350 aft cabin with twin 454's carbed.
Can anyone give me an idea of what cruise and top speed to expect, assuming engines are running properly?
Also what fuel consumption combined I should expect at a slow speed around 8mph, and cruise?
Any other things to look for?
Thanks!

Hi everybody-My name is Larry and I just had my potential new baby hauled and surveyed today and sea trial also. Mechanical survey on Friday. She is 2001 396 Aft Cabin. Twin diesel with only 100 hours on them! Selling my Sea Ray 2003 Sundancer 260. Love the lay-out of the cabin and fly bridge too. This boat is like brand new-really a beauty!

We do a lot of cruising and more and more we encounter digital cable systems that our existing Sole TV's will not recognize. One solution is to replace with new Sole units but of course the new models are of different size than mine!



Has anyone installed just an ordinary 110V TV like we would buy at Walmart? I understand the Sole units are built especially to withstand vibration experienced on a boat but I really don't need the 12V option. We only watch at a dock or with the genset operating.
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Some of you are following our new boat ownership tails and the Port engine that was previously working really well is not starting! It ran last week just fine while we were running both to troubleshoot the starboard engine overheat (which is now fixed yeah!). The port engine will crank but will not turn over. The starter solenoids were green so we replaced both of them. New spark plugs, and a new ignition rotor. We originally thought the fuel gauge was reading i ...

Well, this summer is shaping up to be the, "year of the battery", for us. Just two weeks after replacing our engine cranking batteries, we discovered our house batteries acting up. This is only our second summer with the '04 Mariner, and we inherited old batteries, so we expecteid most of this fun. But the following was interesting and dangerous.

I have (had) two Interstate SRM-29 deep cycles in parallel, as our house units. They worked OK last summer, and yes, I'm aware that group ...

Hi all - my wife and I bought a 1982 Carver Mariner late last season. We replaced the house batteries this spring ( 4 - 6 volt batteries in series / Parallel ). The boat has an original Pro Mariner 30 Amp Charger ( 3 bank - Ferro Resonant ). We have been on shore power since going in the water 2 weeks ago, when I turn the charger breaker to "on" - I can see the Amperage meter on the charger go from zero to maximum then back to zero , a few seconds later the same behavior zero to max then back ...