After our first year on the 4788, we decided that we needed a bigger dinghy / tender. The 11ft rigid bottom inflatable just was not big enough for fishing, shrimping, or crabbing. Also with the issues that we have with the marina entrance where we keep the boat there may be times that one of
Video with details on our first year owning the 4788. Video transcription below: Hi, this is Steve, hey, it’s just over a year since we purchased our Bayliner 4788. And I thought I would do a quick video kind of recapping some of the stuff that we have done within the last year, either adventures
Yesterday afternoon George and I resolved the power issues on the 4788 by replacing the burned out plug with a new Smart Plug brand plug and cord. We started by opening the electric panel to get access to be back side of the power connection. On the 4788 to open the panel like this you
It has been one year since we purchased our 4788, and where have we gone, what have we done, what have we learned, and what would we do differently. Where have we gone 12 weekend trips in the last year. May was a busy month for us boating. We had our first 2 trips on
The old expression… “I have some good news and some bad news, which do you want first?”. Well the good news is the boat did not catch fire, the bad news we need to get an new electrical port for the boat and a new power cord. My son George who works at one of
After getting a backup camera on my pickup truck and realizing how nice it was, I decided to do something similar on the boat. I started with 2 WiFi surveilance cameras that I will be able to view on the 23 inch screen that we mounted in the pilothouse. They are also viewable from my
Yesterday we received 13 more of the interior lights we have been working on replacing. Today I replaced 3 more of the old crappy fixtures in the salon area. This time in the port side along the windows above the television. I would have done more but I ran out of the heat shrink butt
The previous factory installed artwork in the 4788 pilothouse was falling apart beyond repair. I picked up the Orca artwork to replace what was there. After replacing that it points out how worn the wallpaper is on that wall, so one more thing added to the to do list now is wallpaper.
Today I added a second screen to fill a blank part of the dashboard that looked a bit out of place. This was a 23 inch 1080p HDMI monitor. Right now it is just displaying the same thing as the NSS16 in the dashboard to the right, but once we get the fly bridge NSS9
When we purchased the Bayliner 4788 motoryacht it had many of the original electronics that it had when it rolled off the factory floor 25 years ago. There were a couple additions with a chart plotter, and another depth finder, which appeared to be complete rubbish, and did not fuction. Here are some of the
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