Adventures in boat shopping

So I think the plan will be fix the master head and replace the tank filter and see where that gets me. The VG's are working and both systems are holding vacuum fine. If it gets much more involved than this, I will upgrade. Looking at prices, I agree. The Elegance is around $1000.

My problem is that I love to upgrade things. This cost me a fortune when we had an airplane. Costs of things on the boat are a fraction of what they were on the plane.

I need to start working on boats as a side hustle.

Has anyone used an ozone generator to neutralize odors. They are around $100 on Amazon. Is it snake oil or worth $100 to give a try. I think a lot of the odor is just from being closed up in Florida. Bilge looks really clean and I don't get knocked to my knees when I stick my nose down there.

Closing is under way. Hopefully we'll be on our way back to MD with the boat in 2 weeks...or less.

Marina neighbor just gutted the system on his boat and installed 2 composting toilets. Don't know how I feel about that. Might be a little too close to pooping in a bucket for me.

From what I was able to conjure up on the web, the rubber eating issue is only really a problem if you run a way oversized unit for way too long. Kind of like shocking a swimming pool. Saturate the area with ozone for too long. A few hours then air out seems to work pretty well with no il side effects.

No, aft cabin MY. Looks like an old Californian or similar. It's an old boat with serious sewage issues. I guess he thought this was the easy way out.

I get the concept, but after watching a few videos I don't think I could deal with it in real life. Looks like you have to take the entire toilet outside to clean it out. We'll see how he feels about them in a month or so. They aren't exactly cheap. $1000 each. I would have put the money into a proper marine system. You can get an entry level macerating toilet for $500.

So prior to even making offers on these Sea Rays I did an online insurance quote with United Marine Underwriters. Quote came back no problems. I called to confirm that the quote was good, they said I just needed to go to the website and bind coverage with a CC number. So I did that and emailed the survey. About 3 hours later I get and this in an email...

Thank you for the opportunity to provide an insurance quotation. Due to the performance of the vessel, we do not have a market and will be unable to provide you with a quotation. Sorry we could not be of assistance.

Also tried doing an online quote with progressive and they shut me down because the zip there the boat is kept is not the same as my home address. I called my local agent who does the rest of our insurance and they ran it through progressive. The response she got was that (1) they would not cover the hull for survey fair market value or purchase price, which is less that fair market value and (2) They said MD/DE was a high risk area for hurricanes. They are going to run it past 3 other companies on Monday.

Boat US/Geico did an online quote and option to bind coverage with payment, but no idea if they will find a way to shut me down also. I can get liability no problem. Hull coverage is the problem. Hope I don't have to self insure the hull.

I think the problem is that I'm dealing with bean counters who have never seen a boat. Is there a marine specific company that actually knows what a boat is? I mean, local agent asked me if I wanted coverage for the trailer also.

I think I'm gonna need a bigger truck....

Cool. Kimd of local also. Thanks for the tip.