Imagine yourself on a cool sunny day with the wind in your hair and your girl at your side the water is calm the engines humming along and you have no particular place to be in your $100,000, depreciating by the day, 40 foot boat. Now imagine you only paid $25,000 for the same boat only older but very well taken care of and the depreciation is over your investment is sound and you have lots of money left over for that girl at your side. You feel peaceful and smart you didn't waste all that money and you could afford to buy this one for cash instead of making payments every month.This 1982 SRV 360 (Sea Ray Vanguard) Express Vanguard is in excellent condition. As an ocean boat it was made to last but this one never made it to the ocean. It has only been in freshwater and it shows. For the last five years it has been in an undercover slip and I think because of the lack of wear it has been in a covered slip or stored prior to that. At a loa of 40+ feet and a beam of 14 feet this boat is huge but surprisingly easy to drive and park. This is not a fixer upper, its ready to go.The 340 mib 454 MerCruiser engines have about 1600 hours on them, with the starboard engine being rebuilt 2 years ago. Both engines are strong and both water cooler impellers were changed about a month ago. Both have new fuel filters and oil, and oil filters. The engine bays are very well lit and have lots of room to work in, unlike most newer designs. With two 150 gallon tanks you can go where ever, both are about half full, the gas gauges are not to be trusted as in most older boats.It has direct drive shafts (both recently repacked with Teflon packing) not V drives which deletes a drive box where v drives sometimes have issues. It is so much easier and cheaper to have and maintain than Inboard /Outboard it is ridiculous! Nothing to winterize, no gears to lubricate, no hydraulics to fail, etc... This is an ocean boat with that needed reliability and overkill sitting in a lake.The generator, with 600 hours, is an Onan 6.5 kw Genset and just purrs along running the entire boat with no problem. The heated water tank works. The freshwater tank holds 100 gallons and is plastic so no rusty tank.
The radar, auto nav etc. are state of the art for 1982 and obsolete today. I suppose if you can find a cartridge to fit the auto nav it would work but I don't have one. The depth finder works well and is really the only think you need on a lake. The other gauges, besides the gas ones, work well and I especially like the engine sync. The night time navigation lights all work except for the light on the compass, I haven't gotten around to fixing it, I don't use it at night.The interior is really nice its so big it's like a small apartment. I can walk 5 steps from the couch to the sink in the main room. There is a huge difference between a 10 or 12 foot beam and a 14 foot beam, no comparison and 30 foot boats and even 33 foot boats are small comparatively to this boat. And there are doors! Not one big room with a bed in the front and back and where everyone has to look at each other with no privacy. Each room has a privacy door, just like on a real ship. There is a flat screen TV with a DVD player, stove, microwave, refrigerator ($1200), two air conditioners, three sinks, cutting board, drawers, little closets and more storage areas than you will ever need. The bathroom is nice and big, there is plenty of room to sit on the toilet and not feel claustrophobic. The toilet is vacuum, you turn on the vacuum then flush and then turn off the vacuum, very simple. There is a separate shower with a bench to sit on. The couch turns into a double bed, the front bedroom has a large oddly shaped bed, and there are two bunk beds in total sleeping 6. The vinyl seating outside is in great shape and well taken care of. The beautiful wood trim is in good shape.The exterior or the fiberglass is in good shape with the typical cosmetic blemishes you find in an older boat, scratches, chips no structural issues. The windlass is electric and works the beam light works. There is a front center windshield glass that is out for much needed airflow. The windshield wipers don't work, I haven't gotten around to them because I don't take the boat out when its raining, its in a covered slip in a marina and again its on a lake. There are snap covers for the T Top but I don't use them. There is a ripped cover for the back that I saved for a template in case someone wants to get one made. There is a large chest that comes with the boat that is very handy for storing whatever on the slip.This is a great boat especially if you have kids and want something reliable. When people walk by or come in they are amazed at how wide it is. You could spend 80 to a 100 thousand and get so much less its ridiculous. And just know that just because the boat looks great doesn't mean it is not going to be an unforeseen money pit. Point in case there is a boat right next to mine that is beautiful and much newer, the people took it out for the first time and it blew both engines, it hasn't moved since. This boat is easy to work on parts are cheap when you need them and you won't cry if you scratch it and you can just relax and have a great time with a fantastic boat!I am happy to show the boat to any serious buyers, the boat is on the water in a covered slip in the marina and the slip is transferable so you can take your time deciding when and where to move it or you can just enjoy the high end marina that it is in.IN SHORT:SVR 360 Vanguard ExpressGunwale Length 38'2''LOA 40+Center-line length 36'6Beam 13'11''Draft 28Fuel Capacity 300 gal.Dead Rise 19 degreesWater Capacity 100 gal.340 mib 454 engines apx. 1600 hours6.5 Onan generator apx. 600 hoursIf you want to see the original advertising for the boat cut and past this address:
http://www.searay.com/boat_graphics/electronic_brochure/company1729/1C1_27_74DERNJ8G368.pdfI used to have an account with lots of positive feedback but my ex-wife got the account so now I am starting over
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