Its a flush deck, engine is probably damn near mid ships center. I assume its also probably a nice boat to drift since it won't turn stern too like a lot of the big outboard boats to.

Not a lot of clearance between the deck and the valve cover, engine just fits.

I'm used to twin scew inboards, a single is going to take some practice.

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2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200

I would guess it might be a 4 cylinder cummins. Probably repowered to improve fuel economy. Here a couple of pics of a 4BT :

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Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
No longer selling Cluster Needles Paint
No longer selling New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

No its a 6BT5.9M with a twin disc transmission bolted on it.

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2023 Ram 1500
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2007 Tiara 3200

The 5.9 Cummins are great engines. The rear timing model is kind of a PITA but very reliable.

Sent by ESP

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Yeah they seem to be. On the boat forums the advice is to keep the oil changed, keep an eye on the heat exchanger, and keep the coolant changed.

Seem to be 8k-20k hour motors depending on how you run them.

200-300 off WOT seems to be where they like to cruise.

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2023 Ram 1500
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2007 Tiara 3200

Is the boat like this one?

http://www.boatingbay.com/listings/1988-Penn-Yan-Competitor-94225.html

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'46 Cushman Scooter
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I'm betting that's the boat!

If it is, he wouldn't even need to change the name.

At 900 hours it's barely broken in.

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'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Oh wow! It sounds like you've got a great engine/transmission combo!!!

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
No longer selling Cluster Needles Paint
No longer selling New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

Yep that's the boat, not to many of them floating around in CT.

We agreed on a price, and I put a 10% deposit down on her today. Sea trial is Thursday, if all goes well I should have her the week after next. All I'm asking for from them is an oil sample.

The motor has about 850 hours on it, and according to the owner the heat exchanger was done 3-4 years ago, by Cummins, and the PO had the Cummins 1k hour service done by Cummins as well. He spent a few bucks on it$$$.

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2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200

Oh this winters projects are:

Varnish all the wood.
Replace the 4 flush mount rod holders as they are original and not very shiny.
Replace the old Garmin GPS and flasher depth finder with a nice new Raymarine color chart plotter/ fish finder. Also I want to send the radar out to Raymarine to be fixed as its not that old and the screen is very hard to see.

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Bump:

Sea trial was bumped to today because of the storm and work on the owners part.

It went very well, she ran good. Only minor problem is whoever changed the fuel filters last fall didn't fully tighten the injector lines so two started to leak. Thought it was a major problem, but when we popped the hatch saw the fuel and tightened them right up. Ran much better after that!

The other thing which I'm going to have to play with is its not quite coming up to speed. I'm getting 2,450 and not 2600 out of it. We checked the tack on the dash and its surprisingly dead on, go figure. But we photo tacked it anyway and that's all you get. So I think I might send the prop out this winter to be tweaked a bit. I think if they take a bit of pitch off it and clean it up I might get to 2,600rpm's.

All in all its a nice boat, I'm going down their tomorrow morning to pay them and do the paper work. When I get back in from sailing later in the day were going to bring it over to the slip.

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2006 CL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200

Good deal.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Excellent! Guess the next NY/CT GTG will have to be down at the slip.

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1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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That's a great name, and Mermaid on the back. Congrats!

My father's boat (Formula 400SS) was nearly sunk a few weeks ago. Someone went WOT on the throttle and supposedly it stuck, ramming my father's boat in its dock and splitting the hydro-hoist it was sitting on apart. When the hydro-hoist sank the boat started taking on water fast. The port outboard was nearly sheered clean off. With the bilges running along with the help of another heavy duty one, it floated long enough for 2 crane boats to get there and drag it to the marina for repairs. Considering how big the hole was I'm shocked it didn't sink.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Sweet! Sounds like a re-pitch should to the trick. Might be why they weren't quite getting the speed out of the boat they should have.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)