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Boat Review - Sea Ray 250 Sundancer at Dockside Reports
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. Sea Ray 250 Sundancer. Many of our readers think that we knock Sea Ray too hard. Some ask questions like, You don't like Sea Rays very much, do you? Actually, compared to the competition, we like them just fine, albeit with some serious nitpicking. A little background: This boat was owned by a Palm Beach resident. Not West. There has been some improvemen...
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Your First Time Boat - Boat Buying 101 - by David Pascoe
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. By far, the most frequently asked question we get in our emails is the one by first time boat buyers asking about what brand they should buy. Bewildered by literally hundreds of choices out there, they have neither the knowledge to make an informed choice, nor any place to turn for answers. Outboard -vs- Stern Drive. Closed -vs- Raw Water Cooling Systems.
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Boat Specifications - Boat Buying 101
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. Length, Weights and Other Trivia. The length of a boat is one of the most important factors affecting the boat's price. Yet, the represented length does not always reflect the true size of the boat. Builder's Weight -vs- the Weight Now. Most others use what is known as length on deck ( LOD. That does not include the length of the pulpit. Some of these ar...
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Boat Review - Grand Banks 42 at Dockside Reports
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. A look at her bottom shows there's nothing trawlerish about it, other than a deep keel. A plane and simple planing hull. Yep, that is evidence of blister repair you see at upper right. As proponents of good quality, our answer is, of course! The aft stateroom is positively huge; with a full double berth, there is still plenty of floor space around it....
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Your First Boat Part III : Buying Boat 101
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. We made the recommendation that an used boat offers excellent value and good prospects for reliability. But how old of a boat? And how do you go about completing a deal? Outboard -vs- Stern Drive. Closed -vs- Raw Water Cooling Systems. Where You Use Your Boat. By Owner or Dealer. Therefore, my suggestion is to look in the two to four year old range, part...
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Boat Review - Blackfin 33 at Dockside Reports
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. Cockpit is what this boat is all about. All 20 feet of it. A good P/E ratio was something like 12, if you can imagine that. Even more incredible, people bought stocks because they paid dividends,. Cigarette boat performance with a nice roomy cockpit. Only 32 knots with 700 hp? Yep, those deep vee hulls create a lot of drag. But more than that, our ol...
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David Pascoe, Marine Surveyor (retired) - Biography
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. David Pascoe has performed over 5,000 marine surveys, both pleasure craft and commercial. Among his major construction projects were the supervision of the 106' Denison ASTRA DEE, the 96' Broward FELICITY and 98' Custom yacht BLACK SHEEP. In addition, he has been involved with refits on numerous smaller boats and yachts. David Pascoe has been a guest lec...
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Leaking Stuffing Boxes: Boat Maintenance and Repairs
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. How to Prevent $15,000 Worth of Damage. For $5 and 30 Minutes of Your Time. All because of a stuffing box throwing water and the lack of an ounce of prevention that costs no more than $5.00 and a half hour of time. This problem is so easily preventable, that no boat owner should fail to do it. Whether your stuffing boxes are leaking or not, or whethe...
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Your First Boat Part II - Boat Buying 101
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. We discussed the relative merits of buying a new versus a used boat. In this segment we'll take a look at the basics of trying to decide exactly what type, style and shape of boat that you think you need, versus what may actually best fit you purposes. Outboard -vs- Stern Drive. Closed -vs- Raw Water Cooling Systems. Where You Use Your Boat. Builders als...
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Sizing Up Serviceability
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Boats and Boating Articles. Visit for Over 160 articles. Boat Safety at Sea. Mid Size Power Boats": A Guide for Discreminating Buyers - by David Pascoe. The Little Things That Add Up to Big Dollars. Stern Drive Boats' Engines. Bilge Pumps and Float Switches. When sizing up that prospective new or used boat purchase, here are a few things to specifically be on the lookout for. Are you going to have to take apart furniture, move 300 lb. convertible sofas, pull up nailed down carpeting just to check the...