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Express Cruiser 1998 Tiara Yachts 3500 Open boat for sale at a glance:

  • Price drop! Offered by United Yacht Sales originally for $119,000; now only $114,000
  • Powered by twin 1998 Cummins 6BTA 5.9-M3
  • The boat located in Palm Harbor, Florida
  • To see full description and more details click on the `Description` tab above.

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This 1998 Cummins diesel powered Tiara Open 3500 is well maintained, clean, has a recent bottom job, recent canvas, runs smooth, and is ready to go. Her air conditioned interior is ready for the weekend or an extended cruise.

Vessel Walkthrough

Dometic 16,000 BTU air conditioning unit (2018) serves whole interior (under dinette sette).

Beginning first forward is the master stateroom with an island double bed forward. There are hanging lockers port and stbd. aft with a TV mounted on the port aft wall. There is wall to wall carpet on the bed platform and Teak and Holly soles aft. There are portlights and a hatch for natural lighting and built in swivel lamps. Next aft is the salon/galley with the work space to port with Corian counter tops and sink with storage under, counter top electric range with cover, and undercounter double door reefer/freezer. The galley has Teak and Holly soles. The salon area is to stbd. with hardwood partitions and a built in dinette outboard with a drop down table that can convert the settees to a double bunk. There is a hinge-up back bolster on the hull side which forms a pullman upper by hanging from chains so that the salon can sleep up to 3. There is another Tv in the salon. Across the stbd. aft partition of the salon is the main electric panel. In the port aft corner of the salon/galley is the head compartment with a fiberglass molded in liner/shower pan and full hot water shower. There is a Vacuuflsh 12 volt electric toilet in the same compartment. Up a few steps from the salon is the control deck with a pilot bench port and one stbd. at the control station. The stbd. pilot bench has electric adjustments. Behind the pilot bench is a built in wet bar and Raritan Icerette icemaker. The open aft deck is next aft with seating and storage. The transom with door and swim platform are last. There are Carbon Monoxide and smoke alarms throughout.

Main Salon:

Convertible dinette converts to a double lower berth and the backrest along the hull hinges up to form a Pullman upper. This area can sleep 3 total. Port lights and overhead skylight hatches make it light and airy.

Galley:

  – Along port side of salon space.
  – Front loading NovaKool under counter reefer/freezer.
  – Dual burner electric hot plate.
  – Corian molded sink.
  – GE microwave oven.
  – Fluorescent under cabinet lighting.

Master Stateroom:

Forward island berth and hanging locker port and a cabinet starboard. Bulkhead mounted TV/DVD, swivel reading lamps, port lights, and overhead skylight hatch.

Deck:

  – Reversing Maxwell 12 volt vertical chain/rode windlass with foot switches on foredeck and remote switches at helm.
  – 300' 5/8" Nylon 8 strand braid rode with 100' 1/4" galvanized chain. Plow style anchor with Danforth spare.
  – Open aft deck with "eyebrow" shade.
  – Control deck Bimini top.
  – Aft deck shower.
  – Built in rod holders.
  – Aft deck wet bar/bait prep center.
  – Aft deck freshwater deck wash.

Electronics and Helm:

  – Two Dynex 15" TV's with built in DVD players (one in master and one in salon).
  – Icom IC-M424 VHF radiotelephone.
  – Furuno 48 mile monochrome open array radar.
  – Furuno LS-4100 digital depth recorder.
  – Raytheon A65 GPS plotter with USA chart chip.
  – Uniden QT-206 digital depth meter.
  – Robertson AP11 autopilot.
  – Engine compartment Fireboy CG2 fixed fire system status indicator and shut down overrride.
  – ACR RCC-100 search light remote controller for search light on bow.
  – Richie hemispherical compass.
  – Audible and LED visual bilge alarms.
  – AC generator power on LED indicator at helm.
  – Glomex marine HD TV antenna.
  – Fusion MS-IP600 stereo with remote control at helm, JL Audio system speakers on interior and exterior.
  – 12 volt compressed air horn.
  – VDO engine instruments and fuel tank level gauges.
  – Control deck electric center vent window.
  – 3 x 12 volt windshield wipers.
  – 12 volt outlet.
  – Custom control deck and aft deck fitted Tiara carpet.

Electrical:

  – 2 x 30 amp 125 Volt Shorepower connection inlets plus land telephone and CATV connection in cockpit.
  – Westerbeke Generator 5.0 BCDB 120 VAC, 60 Hz. - 1647 Hours.
  – Battery charger.
  – Hot water heater.
  – Red and blue arch and aft deck courtesy "mood" lighting.
  – AC and DC volt and ammeters plus generator remote start/stop on salon main electric panel.
  – Electric water tank level gauge.
  – 12 Volt Submersible bilge pump (3) with Ultra float switches.

Engine Details and Mechanical Equipment:

  – ZF 220A marine reduction and reverse gears. (Fluid changed annually).
  – Dual lever Morse type engine controls with Glendinning synchronizer.
  – Sea Star Hydraulic steering.
  – Trim Tabs.
  – Racor 900FGS main engine fuel/water separators with vacuum and pressure gauges and water in fuel audible/visual alarms on dash. Generator Racor fuel filter.
  – Groco 12 volt oil change system.
  – New cutlass bearing 2021
  – New propshaft seals 2021
  – Rudder posts repacked 2021
  – 12 Volt holding tank discharge pump.
  – Y-Valve for holding tank discharge from shore or with onboard pump to overboard.

Maintenance and Updates

Items Serviced Under this Ownership:

  – New cutlass bearing 2021
  – New prop shaft seals 2021
  – Rudder posts repacked 2021
  – New raw water impellers July 2023
  – Cooling system flushed with barnacle buster July 2023
  – New zinc anodes replaced annually last done July 2023
  – Oil changes and new filters every 150 hours
  – New Racor and Fuel Filters July 2023
  – Generator Raw Water impeller replaced August 2023
  – Generator cooling system flushed and new zinc anode August 2023
  – New bottom job in spring of ’23.
  – Serviced engine aftercoolers may '22.
  – Has a monthly diver bottom service.

Other upgrades and previous maintenance:

  – 1,000-hour main engine service completed
  – Fully detailed 9-2020
  – All cockpit cushions replaced with diamond stitching 2019
  – New raw water intake hoses for generator/main engines 4-2020 New 4 blade class S propellers installed 7-2019
  – New exhaust risers 10-2019
  – New silicone exhaust hoses
  – New SMX raw water pumps 2020
  – New belts 2020
  – New main engine fuel hoses 10-2019
  – New coolant 10-2019
  – New canvas/strata glass 2018
  – New interior soft goods 2018
  – All LED interior lighting 2020
  – New throttle/transmission cables 2019
  – New Northstar batteries 2019

Mechanical Disclaimer

Engine and generator hours are as of the date of the original listing and are a representation of what the listing broker is told by the owner and/or actual reading of the engine hour meters. The broker cannot guarantee the true hours. It is the responsibility of the purchaser and/or his agent to verify engine hours, warranties implied or otherwise and major overhauls as well as all other representations noted on the listing brochure.

Disclaimer

The company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.

Approximate boat location – Palm Harbor, Fl
 
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United Yacht Sales