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78 Buddy Davis 2000 Yacht for Sale

ASKING PRICE: $1,095,000

Fort Lauderdale, FL

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78' Buddy Davis 2000

NEW TO THE MARKET!!!

MUST SEE!!!

ONLY 50 ENGINE HOURS!!!!

FRESH BOTTOM PAINT

FRESH PROP SPEED

HUGE REFIT!!

Denison Yachting is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Revolution Yacht Group.

Denison Yacht Sales offers the details of this yacht in good faith but can’t guarantee the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of this boat for sale. This yacht for sale is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal from that yacht market without notice. She is offered as a convenience by this yacht broker to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a specific yacht for sale.

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78' Buddy Davis HIGHLIGHTS

78' Buddy Davis additional information

Specifications
  • Cruising Speed: 24 kn
  • Maximum Speed: 28 kn
  • Beam: 20' 0''
  • Hull Material: Wood
  • Max Draft: 6' 0''
  • Fuel Tank: 3 x 2400|gallon
  • Cabins: 5
  • Heads: 6
Buddy Davis Legacy

Buddy Davis is credited with building more than 350 boats; bringing yacht finishes to custom-built Carolina sport fishing boats; and, with incorporating many contemporary design innovations and construction techniques into the boat building process.

Most importantly, Davis will be known for introducing the “Carolina flare” to the world. Even though he may have had a bumpy ride, Buddy Davis was instrumental in creating a legacy that will live on every time we see one of those sleek, bow-proud, flared hulls of a custom Carolina sport fishing boat.

Davis wasn’t always a boat builder, but he was always on boats. He began working as a mate on fishing boats at the ripe old age of 13, and spent some of his sea time working for the renowned North Carolina captain Omie Tillet. Throughout his career Davis created boats with wood, molded fiberglass, and cold-molding glass-over-wood techniques, spanning the technological ranges from scarfing planks, to building a hull upside-down on a jig—a first, at the time—to molding fiberglass with advanced methods like resin-infusion. At its peak, Buddy Davis Boat works boasted a production of 30 sport fishing yachts in a single year.

Vessel Hvac

- New Chiller Water Plants (Titanium Coil Chillers) – Dometic Model #MCGX48 (total of two chillers, four tons each)

- Two new Altivar/Dometic Speed Drives to allow for 3-phase Chiller Installation

- New Breaker panels and cable runs for chiller plant

- All new plumbing for chiller plant including manifolds

- Two new raw water supply pumps for Chillers (Scot Pump 35067K)

- Two new chiller water pumps for chilled water loop (Scot Pump 35065J)

- Nine new air handlers (Dometic Model numbers AU18HVZ, AU12HVZ, AU9HVZ

- New thermostats and digital HVAC controls/displays for rooms

 


 


 








 


 


 




Communications

- New Starlink Marine Panel and Router

- New PepwaveMAX Br2 (Cellular data) along with antenna’s (two)

Navigation Lighting

- New Lopolight Running Lights

- New Lopolight Masthead/Anchor Light

- New Lopolight Stern Light

- Carlisle & Finch Spotlight 

Tv Upgrades

- New KVH UHD7 Sat Dome

- KVH Power supply, splitters and UPS

- Eight new DirecTV H25 HD IR Sat Receivers

 

All New Navigation Electronics


- Pilothouse Helm Chartplotters Garmin GPSMAP 8617 (total of 3)

- Tower Chartplotter Garmin 8617 (total of 1)

- Aft Station Chartplotter Garmin GPSMAP 743 (total of 1)

- Three Garmin Card Readers

- Garmin GSD26 Sounder 

- Garmin B265LH 1kW Chirp 

Transducer

- Airmar Smart N2k Transducer B122-235-N2

More Electronics

- Garmin GXM54 Sat/Weather Antenna

- Pilothouse GMI20 Displays (Total of 4)

- Tower GMI20 Displays (Total of 2)

- Garmin GMR Phantom 254 w/4ft Radar

- Garmin GMR Phantom54 w/4ft Radar

- Garmin Autopilot Reactor 40 w/ GHC50 and corepack

- Garmin Type 2 Reactor 40 Smartpump

- Garmin Autopilot instruments and feeback sensors

- New NMEA Network (GMS10, total of three)

- New Tower VHF ICOM M510 with Shakespear Galaxy 5018 antenna

- Garmin AIS 800 Blackbox with antenna

- Two new MTU displays

Recent Transmission Service

- Oil change and gear cooler service

- New solenoids on stbd side control valves

Generators

TWO (2) KOHLER 40KW GENERATORS

Port: 793 hours

Starboard: 716 hours


RECENT SERVICE:

- Oil change 

- Replacement of gear coupler interface on port side generator

- Replacement of generator speed control board port side generator

 

General Electrical Items Recently Addressed

- Replaced anchor windlass circuit breaker

- Replaced windlass boots

- Replaced windlass deck switches

- Cleanup of pantry distribution panel 

- Replaced lights in distribution panel 

- Replaced indicator lights for bilge pump run signals

- Replaced blackwater tank level indication and commission of headhunter pump control unit

- New cover plate for house charger 

- Reterminate and repaid bonding connections for bow thruster

- Repaired port side main engine ventilation fan

- Replaced aft and forward lazarette bilge pumps and float switches

- Replaced engine room bilge pump and float switch

- Replaced engine room sump float switch

- Installed an alarm system horn in the pilothouse

- Replaced faulty smoke detectors.  Tested and confirmed system is back to 100%

- Replaced all battery switches for main engines and generators (four total)

More

- New Strut Cutlass Bearings (Port & Stbd.)

- Removal, dial indicate, straighten shafts, reinstall

- Lap couplings and props to shafts at machine shop

- Recondition props and dynamic balance 

- Sanded bottom and applied two new coats of antifouling

- Replaced Blackwater discharge check valve

- Inspected, cleaned and repaired sea chest valves 

- Replaced all vessel zincs

- Repaired underwater lights

- Repaired dayhead toilet system (plumbing and electrical)

- Applied prop speed to running gear

- Replaced one of the house battery banks

- Replaced trim tab actuators 

- Replaced bow thruster hydraulic cooling pump

- Replaced MTU Displays in Pilothouse

- Replaced MTU Engine Room Interface Module (ERIM)

- New trim tab actuators and controls

- Stripped and revarnished all exterior

- Exterior buff/polish

- New shorepower cable

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Buddy Davis YACHTS SALES REPORT

LOA (ft)
BOAT BRAND
YEAR
SOLD PRICE (USD)
SOLD DATE
DAYS ACTIVE
LOCATION
78
Buddy Davis
2000
$1,375,000
Apr, 23
10
Lighthouse Point, FL, USA
78
Buddy Davis
2000
$825,000
Jun, 22
434
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
70
Buddy Davis
2002
$550,000
Jul, 22
79
Wilmington, NC, USA
61
Buddy Davis
1988
$300,000
Oct, 22
505
Gulfport, MS, USA
61
Buddy Davis
1989
$375,000
Sep, 22
209
Manteo, NC, USA
47
Buddy Davis
1997
$150,000
Mar, 22
226
Kailua Kona, HI, USA
38
Buddy Davis
1983
$425,000
Apr, 23
386
Wanchese, NC, USA
34
Buddy Davis
2017
$260,000
Feb, 23
151
Cataumet, MA, USA
28
Buddy Davis
2005
$70,000
Jul, 23
113
Fort Myers, FL, USA
28
Buddy Davis
2005
$70,000
Jun, 23
42
Selbyville, DE, USA
28
Buddy Davis
2005
$92,000
Jun, 22
67
Islamorada, FL, USA
28
Buddy Davis
2005
$129,000
Jun, 22
421
Point Pleasant, NJ, USA
28
Buddy Davis
2014
$146,000
Mar, 22
94
Sandusky, OH, USA
28
Buddy Davis
2005
$119,000
Mar, 22
182
Grasonville, MD, USA

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