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Sea Ray 44 Sundancer

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AUDIO

A Clarion CD receiver and changer concealed behind the salon smoked acrylic window.

Within an overhead salon cabinet we installed a laminated birch panel that contains an iPod mount, an equalizer, two line level controllers, two selector switches and the Glomex UHF/VHF antenna amplifier. The EQ has a built-in six times 7-volt line driver that is crucial in a multi-amplifier system. The EQ also provides a 3-way line-level zone control, ie: cockpit, exterior to cockpit and subwoofer. The exterior to cockpit zone is further divided by two dedicated controls for bow and transom speakers. A 3-way switch operates a hideaway electronic source selector allowing you to toggle between iPod, cabin TV audio output and cockpit TV audio output. A second switch and selector toggles between two iPod stations.

At the helm inside a glove box a second iPod hookup plus a redundant and interactive iPod source selector switch.

A digital display hardwired remote control at the helm.

A digital display hardwired remote control on the transom.

Dual wireless remote controls allow seamless operation from anywhere inside or outside the boat. A wireless remote is ideal for controlling the salon theater sound.

Independent switches just inside the cabin door shut down either the entire cockpit system or cabin system with one touch.

Multiple four-channel amplifiers drive the cabin and cockpit audio systems. Also behind the salon couch is the Sirius tuner and power distribution.

Boston Acoustics 6½ -inch coaxils replaced the factory speakers in the salon ceiling. The factory cloth is a non-porous material so it was replaced with an acoustically transparent grill cloth.

The forward stateroom also received upgrade Boston Acoustics coaxils.

Concealed within a cabinet a ten-step volume control is dedicated to the forward stateroom speakers.

MB Quart marine oversized integral component speakers (featuring 2nd order outboard crossovers) in each arch.

Starboard and port forward cockpit MB Quart speakers.

Starboard and port rear cockpit MB Quart speakers. A multi-piece polymer reducer flush mounts the rear starboard speaker. The reducer allows the engine hatch to freely pass. With this large cockpit, adding rear speaker locations makes an enormous difference. Otherwise, the forward cockpit occupants are overdriven in order for the rear occupants to adequately hear the music.

The 420 and 44 Sundancers do not have far forward factory speaker locations. In order to create a true front image we added Bullet-style pods with MB Quart speakers. The difference is big.

At the rear of the cockpit, two louvered vents allow the bass radiation to flow from the rear bench console. Concealed inside a down firing waterproof sub enclosure contains a 10-inch woofer.

Along the pass through side of the helm bench seat console a custom slotted polymer grill acts as a subwoofer vent. An up firing subwoofer enclosure is mounted in the locker next to the cockpit air conditioning unit. Replacing the factory free-air woofer yields a dramatic difference. Also, dual subwoofers at the extremes of this large cockpit area produce effortless and seamless bass throughout. Using identical drivers, enclosures and loading methods produce similar phase characteristics and therefore a uniform response. We also use separate amplifiers for front and rear subs in order to have independent gains and crossovers for each subwoofer. These techniques eliminate the effect of subwoofers sounding detached and eliminates hot and cold areas of output.

White powder coated bullet-shaped spun aluminum pods contain MB Quart marine coaxils that flood the bow deck with sound. Polymer adapters and brackets attach the pods to the bow rails. Perfect for sunbathers or star gazers.

Dual pods are suspended from under the hardtop. These speakers project out over the swim deck to the slip or to those relaxing afloat on tubes or rafts when anchored. White polymer mounting adapters are contoured to the curved hardtop surface and also correct for the downward angle.

In other 420/44 Dancers we installed four rear projecting speaker pods under the
hardtop.

LIGHTING

At the helm we installed multiple switches to control the LED lighting. One switch controls the red port and green starboard gunwale step lights. A second switch controls the overhead cockpit blue indirect lighting. A third switch acts as a brightness/dimmer control of a hidden digital voltage amplifier for the overhead cockpit lights.

White polymer bezels conceal eight blue LED light fixtures, which are positioned around the perimeter of the hardtop interior.

The after dark glow of the cockpit lighting system. A nice addition is a radio frequency remote control.

Port and starboard step lights illuminate the narrow gunwale step when reaching from the vertical to horizontal rails. Red on port and green on starboard. White polymer bezels conceal the LED light fixtures.

INSTRUMENTATION

We added a Sirius weather band module which connects to the Raymarine chartplotter. To facilitate this addition we upgraded the chartplotter software. The chartplotter VGA output can be converted to composite via another module. Once in the composite video domain the images can be RF modulated to any TV on the boat or to any TV in the boathouse while the boat is in its slip.

VIDEO

We installed a KVH M3 TracVision on the hardtop. We build our own custom aluminum towers for 44 Dancers and many other boats. This unique tower with a kidney-shaped base matches the very back of the hardtop perfectly. We also have a version for the KVH 4 HP.

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