Single 350Q motor from circa 1991. Newer 4 blade prop. Needs cleaning, been sitting on trailer under a tarp for several years. $5,000 for boat and trailer, will deliver. Boat is in Edenton NC. Jim 603-321-4931 Pictures to come.

Preliminary post. I’ve had my 28 for sale here for a while, and it’s still available. It’s a nicely restored and repowered boat, with 5.7 fuel injected Crusaders. I’m also considering selling my 38 Sedan bridge, which I purchased in 2023. She’s in nice condition with newer carbureted 454’s. Price very negotiable on both boats. Any interest, please post here or email me at jimfrens @ comcast .net.

Looking at the photos in the Models section, it seems that the 41 did not come with flybridge and the 410 did. Is that a hard rule or was the bridge optional on both?

My 38 Sedan with flybridge has small leaks into the salon when the bridge gets wet. I suspect it’s through the penetrations where the teak floor strips are screwed down. I’m thinking of pulling the teak up and putting down a one piece synthetic floor (Seadek). But does the teak provide strengthening for the floor, such that if removed the floor will flex too much when walked on?

Boat is 28 Sports Express with twin late model Crusader 5.7, VelvetDrive 1:1 trans. A couple weeks ago on the way home from a short run, the port tach ran up high and power dropped. Pulled throttles to idle, shifted to neutral. Shifted Port to forward with some gas, nothing. Shut down engine and limped home on starboard. At the dock, trans fluid sprayed around, dipstick laying loose, almost no fluid in it. Brown water under the engine. A few days later, sucked out all fluid and refilled it. All was okay till last Sunday, out with a prospective buyer, and it did it again but the dipstick stayed in. No water under engine, but a few days later there was some. Vacuumed it up and put paper towels underneath, no wet spots. Sucked out the trans and got 1-1/4 quarts of brown fluid. (should be 2 quarts of red fluid.) So, it seems to me the likely culprit is the trans cooler leaking water into the transmission fluid, and trans fluid leaking out to the exhaust stream until there’s not enough fluid to run the transmission. Make sense?

When my upper steering assembly fell apart due to rotten wood inside the flybridge, I replaced the cable with a Dyneema line. I put five turns around the drum on the upper steering shaft, but it’s not enough friction. I could put on a new line of longer length to add a few turns on the drum, but I’m thinking about another solution: put a sprocket on the shaft (or drum) and replace that end of the Dyneema with a chain, just like it is on the lower helm end. Has anyone done this? Or another solution? Jim

This is the most unique CC boat I have ever seen. https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1964-chris--craft-roamer-offshore-9151078/