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He was anchored out on his boat with his wife and another couple. He had a heart attack in the middle of the night. Yes, funeral was today. Everyone here at Goose Pond very sad.

1989 40DC. I have never driven at night, but I was checking the lights and when I toggle the switch for navigation/anchor lights the anchor light comes on but the navigation light do not. Switch is turned on at panel. any ideas?

The picture shown is the plate in the aft head where you can turn on the shower sump/bilge pump and the toilet. For some reason yesterday, both stopped at the same time. No lights come on nor does anything happen when I pull out the knobs. Please note that they’re on separate circuits at the...

We have a 40DC. The guy who washes my boat want to to buff and wax the boat. I thought I had read on these message boards somewhere not to wax since the Hatteras boats are painted. Is that correct?

Anyone know anything about this 56 above Chattanooga? We have a 40DC and are interested in moving up to a bigger boat. Seems like a 54 or 56 would work (although I would prefer galley up which is not available in any of these vintage models) I don't want a "project"...

My 1989 40DC is on the Tennessee River. My boat cleaner was trying to clean the brown stuff above the waterline and told me (I live out of state) he stopped because it looked like the blue strip (Dupont Enamel, I checked) was starting to come off with whatever acid he was using. Does anyone...

I have a 1989 40DC and came down to stay on it for a long weekend. I noticed that the front bilge near the V-berth has a significant amount of water. I covers a significant amount of the pump which does not seem to be working. I am not familiar with working on these. I notice on the...

Engine won’t start Came down to my boat for a long weekend and can’t get the starboard engine to fire up. Not really even sure where the battery is to that one So it’s hard to evaluate. We have a 40 double cabin boat. 1989.Anything I can try?

I just got an estimate on enclosing the aft deck of my 1989 40DC. The flybridge is already enclosed and we have a top on the aft deck. The quote was $12,500 plus tax for a sunbrella enclosure with 40mm strataglass with rolldown windows with screens. Wanted to know if that sounded at least in...

Have been having problems with LPF error in salon AC for several months. Have had it looked at 3 times with attempted fixes most along lines of coolant leak or wrong coolant in system. Still getting error. Got to boat in Northern Alabama last night to find the other AC to the front and rear...