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Those pics are perfect. Did you drill a new hole to run the wiring through or was that hole already in there? Seems like you could use the predrilled tweeter wire holes if you have to drill holes.
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I drilled the hole. The remaining speakers I used a smaller drill since I used smaller wire, 22awg. This one was my 1st one and had planned on using a 18 AWG wire that had a pretty thick casing.... which proved to be to big for routing, plus larger wire than needed.
The tweeter wires have rubber seals on them where they pass thru housing no room for additional wires. PLus the tweeter wires are at 3 and 9. I wanted the lighting ends to be at bottom of speakers incase there would have been a slight dark spot from no lights in that area. Turns out it wasn't an issue.
The tweeter wires have rubber seals on them where they pass thru housing no room for additional wires. PLus the tweeter wires are at 3 and 9. I wanted the lighting ends to be at bottom of speakers incase there would have been a slight dark spot from no lights in that area. Turns out it wasn't an issue.
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Bert,
Question for you. It's off topic for this thread, I hope you don't mind. Back when you were looking and comparing boats to buy, what was the outcome when you compared the Shockwave to the Sunny? Did you ever get a chance to drive both? How did they compare to the Lavey you ended up with? Every time I do a search on here for info on a boat that I may be interested in you seem to have shown interest in too.
Question for you. It's off topic for this thread, I hope you don't mind. Back when you were looking and comparing boats to buy, what was the outcome when you compared the Shockwave to the Sunny? Did you ever get a chance to drive both? How did they compare to the Lavey you ended up with? Every time I do a search on here for info on a boat that I may be interested in you seem to have shown interest in too.
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Bert,
Question for you. It's off topic for this thread, I hope you don't mind. Back when you were looking and comparing boats to buy, what was the outcome when you compared the Shockwave to the Sunny? Did you ever get a chance to drive both? How did they compare to the Lavey you ended up with? Every time I do a search on here for info on a boat that I may be interested in you seem to have shown interest in too.
Question for you. It's off topic for this thread, I hope you don't mind. Back when you were looking and comparing boats to buy, what was the outcome when you compared the Shockwave to the Sunny? Did you ever get a chance to drive both? How did they compare to the Lavey you ended up with? Every time I do a search on here for info on a boat that I may be interested in you seem to have shown interest in too.
I like both boats, I love the look of the Sunny, it's about 2-3mph faster but the Lavey did every thing the Sunny did, it's about 1700lbs lighter and handled the slop better. Most of all, the Lavey was about $25-30k cheaper. Uncle Dave and I chatted about the boats, he's pretty dialed in with what makes a Laveycraft in the top tier, he had me convinced and he was right. Hope this helps.
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Yes it helps. Thanks. I was hopeing you had been on a shockwave as I have not even seen one in person other than maybe at a boat show but I don't remember. Being here on the east coast doesn't help in that there are non around me to look at. I love the layout of a the Sunsation 288 MCOB but I've only been on one that was sitting on a trailer never been for a ride. Actually it being on the smaller side works out better for me as storage space at my house is limited. As for the Lavey, I think I've read every comment on here about them and have no doubt their quality is unsurpassed. I've found in comparing the pricing of Sunny and Lavey, atleast the 288 to the 29, the Sunnys are around $10- $15K cheaper. That's also about how far off I am in my budget from the asking price of yours. I still can't believe your family doesn't like that boat! From all I've read from your posts in what you where looking for at the begining it seems to be perfect. Makes me a little apprehensive since you were looking for pretty much what I'm looking for and look how it turned out. Perfect boat that the fam doesn't like. I feel your pain with that concept. Thanks again for the info. It may not be the last question from me..........
P.S. Haul the Lavey to Annapolis and take me for a ride. Maybe I'll fall in love with it and sell a kidney or something for the extra cash.
P.S. Haul the Lavey to Annapolis and take me for a ride. Maybe I'll fall in love with it and sell a kidney or something for the extra cash.
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Yes it helps. Thanks. I was hopeing you had been on a shockwave as I have not even seen one in person other than maybe at a boat show but I don't remember. Being here on the east coast doesn't help in that there are non around me to look at. I love the layout of a the Sunsation 288 MCOB but I've only been on one that was sitting on a trailer never been for a ride. Actually it being on the smaller side works out better for me as storage space at my house is limited. As for the Lavey, I think I've read every comment on here about them and have no doubt their quality is unsurpassed. I've found in comparing the pricing of Sunny and Lavey, atleast the 288 to the 29, the Sunnys are around $10- $15K cheaper. That's also about how far off I am in my budget from the asking price of yours. I still can't believe your family doesn't like that boat! From all I've read from your posts in what you where looking for at the begining it seems to be perfect. Makes me a little apprehensive since you were looking for pretty much what I'm looking for and look how it turned out. Perfect boat that the fam doesn't like. I feel your pain with that concept. Thanks again for the info. It may not be the last question from me..........
P.S. Haul the Lavey to Annapolis and take me for a ride. Maybe I'll fall in love with it and sell a kidney or something for the extra cash.
P.S. Haul the Lavey to Annapolis and take me for a ride. Maybe I'll fall in love with it and sell a kidney or something for the extra cash.
You can't really compare the 288 to the 29 as far as size. The Sunny is about a 27 and the 29 Lavey is about 5 inches short of 31. Additionally the MCOB are usually about $5-7k more than the cuddies for both builders. Best keep the comparison of the 288 Sunny to the 2750 Lavey and the 32 Sunny to the 29 Lavey.
Yeah I thought I nailed down my perfect dream boat too. Well I did, just not the perfect boat according to my family. Last weekend I had 10 kids, 3 adults, plus myself and we had room for more. That was the biggest complaint with my PQ260, just not enough room. She really doesn't like the small doors on the cabin either, it's funny, because the doors are the largest I've seen on a MCOB. There is a long list of things that the wife and my kids don't like about it.
Now Quent's 2750 is full open bow with no cabin and is gorgeous! Plus he's currently bumping up the power over 1000hp! Check out the pics of his boat. Wonder if he'll swap? lol
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Lots of people have used the flexible LED strips. If you are looking to just do one color, you could just buy a strip of that color. If you buy the RGB strips you will need the control to put it on the color you want.
You know you can buy rolls of the stuff and cut to the size you want.
You know you can buy rolls of the stuff and cut to the size you want.