$18,979
Willis, Texas
Category
-
Length
36.5
Posted Over 1 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 a covered slip in Walden Marina. At a loa of 40+ feet and a beam of 14 feet this boat is huge but surprisingly easy to drive and park. 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. It generates 125v with no load and 115v fully loaded. 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. I have all the paperwork from the first owner all the way to me the 4th owner of this boat there is a lot of paper work. Details like when the boat was pulled from the lake 5 years ago and the bottom painted and the props changed. Or the Boat surveys and prior owner information. I took a picture of the paperwork in its box. 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, but if that is something that is important to you I will have it fixed along with putting the glass back in the center. There are snap covers for the T Top. 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. 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 Palms Marina. IN SHORT: SVR 360 Vanguard Express Gunwale Length 38'2'' LOA 40+ Center-line length 36'6” Beam 13'11'' Draft 28”Fuel Capacity 300 gal. Dead Rise 19 degrees Water Capacity 100 gal. 340 mib 454 engines apx. 1600 hours 6.5 Onan generator apx. 600 hoursSleeps 6 If 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.pdf You can email me or call me with any questions. 903-724-5212. NO SOLICITORS!MAKE ME AN OFFER! Tuesday, my son and I went to Fajita Jack's on the water and I turned down a 15,000 offer from a buyer who just happened to be sitting there and saw my sign.
