Hello everyone, been cruising this site for a couple of years and finally we are shifting from working full-time and window
shopping to
retirement and trying to acquire, and become full-time cruisers.
Got us buyers
broker and started the process looking for our-new-to-us
Lagoon. I've been window
shopping for couple of years, but now officially moving forward since I just retired and
sold home. We have pretty much decided our first preference is the L-400 S2. Not many of them around unless one is interested in the 4 cabin- 4
head charter version. Would love to find good priced owners version somewhere on the USA hemisphere side but the few I spotted are out of my
price range and personally speaking from my
research overpriced. Would be ok with 4
cabin and 2
head or 4
cabin 3 head but not the 4 head version as a separate
shower area is important. So here are a few questions I have.
Has anyone modified a 4 head into 2 or 3 head? Meaning is it possible, feasible to convert on one
hull of a L-400 from a 2 head into 1 large head with separate
shower stall? If possible any decent guess how one might go about it, what might be ballpark of cost and if feasible who could perform such
work?
Another question is that almost all the 400's are European wired for 230v but they have very few options. Our desire is fully loaded as we intend to be full-time cruisers, meaning, ac/heat, full
electronics,
electric heads, washer and
watermaker, 9k
generator. So in getting to the question finally, would it make sense to re-wire one of these 230v to 110v if most of our cruising time will be
ICW and
Caribbean and then add in new the options listed above in 110v? Our goal is to not be dockside most of the time except during
hurricane season where we will find a marina in either northern portion of NC or into Virginia in order to avoid the
hurricane insurance costs and
cruise upper
east coast some when
weather windows allow. OR could it make sense (if found) a L-400 with all or most of the expensive stuff listed above but in 230v and during the summer months we just use genset as needed versus dockside electricity?
Please feel free to shoot holes into my thinking as that is the reason for the
posting. Again our hope is to find us a L-400 that comes closest to meeting our needs but also our goal is to get this all done and be on the
water by Dec. of this year. So in the event we cannot find our 1st preference I do have a 2nd and 3rd preference models, but feedback on those options will be posted if necessary at a later date.
Thanks for any all all feedback. Have been reading on this site for a couple of years now so I know I will get some varied opinions but that's what I am asking for so bring-it-on...
Almost there....