Z275....was it worth the trip?
 

Last year I was drawn to Mariahs when I went to look at a 2001 Z270 I was thinking about buying. I was as impressed as you would expect a first timer on a Mariah to be, excited to take ownership after I agreed to the sellers price, but something stirred in the seller and a week later he decided to keep the boat (can you blame him)


So my plans ground to a halt, no other boat would do, I had to have a Mariah, particularly a 2001 Z270, turns out they don't come up for sale too often, I had only seen one other in a year of looking nationally. Lots of 300's, and 250's but I was sold on the generous cockpit area of the 27 foot.

As I researched more I began to realize I dont really need the full Vberth down below and the clever bowrider arrangement of the Z275 made alot of sense, so I expanded my search.

2 weeks ago my buddy and I drove almost 900 miles (one way) to go look at a 2001 Z275.

Low hours rack stored, mint condition, Southern boat, pictures looked good, price was right......so off we go.

The second I laid eyes on it I realized it was better in person than in the pictures, (which is hardly the case). I knew all it needed to do was not sink, and it would be coming home with me.

Well.... It didn't sink.

Was it worth the trip?.......Here's my answer:

Nice!!! Congrats!! :wink_thumbup:

Got her in over the weekend, and out yesterday for her first real cruise.... I'm very happy.

Looks great, and sounds like you are going to have hours of fun on her. Post some more pics for us all to drool over.
Great time of year for all of you lucky guys, and especially with a nice new toy. Congratulations. Well worth the wait. :wink_thumbup:

Mariah 275
 

Hello!

It seems to be a nice boat.
I have a 278 Shabah and it nearly the same boat in design and construction,and it`s a fantastic boat to drive.
Please post some pictures on the forum of your boat cause we look forward to se her..

Mine came from 1600 mi away and never regretted it. You will love the mid-cabin setup, especially for kids. The only negative is I have never found a good way to stow the bimini but that’s minor as I just fold it back and put the boot on.

1600 miles, from IL, thats about as far as it gets!!!!

I have found the Bimini, and the camper top it came with stow well hanging in my garage:)

I have never set up or used a Bimini top, but can't you fold it up, put the cover on it, and brace it overhead folded up? Or is that what you do?

When you said lay it back, I pictured it laying back over the transom.

It came from Grand Junction CO. I met them half way (the drove the hard part!) I run most of the time with the double bimini up as you see in the pic to reduce sun exposure to kids and in-laws, but at times it is nice to just have open sky! You may want to watch the fridge also. If I leave mine plugged in, it will run my batteries down in about 3-4 days. So I have it unplugged most the time and use it like a cooler. Have fun on the water!

thanks for the fridge heads up...

So far I haven't really done anything with it yet.

I have the 3 battery option with an onboard 30 amp power supply / charger, 2 start batteries on the main 1,2 all switch, and a 3rd accessory battery on a separate hidden single battery switch.

With the boat all on, I have never been able to detirmine if the Fridge even worked, or to detirmine whether it was shore power only (which I expected) or if it was DC it ran off the start batteries or accessory battery.

There is also one last accessory switch on the dash which I haven't gotten around to figuring out what it did either, if in fact it did anything, I assumed it might be for the fridge.

I figured some combination of all of the above would make the fridge work!!!!

Now you say you plug and unplug the fridge, I will follow the wires to see where they run, to see if it is even plugged in or not, if its DC, I will probably make sure its wired it to the accessory battery, so It won't affect my start batteries, and if I do leave it on when I leave the boat, I wil be sure to plug the charger into shore power.

Add that to the to do list,

I like your double bimini top, I'm not sure I'll get much use out of any of the covers that came with my boat, they are all original Mariah vinyl (the Bimini and camper tops have never been used), and now that the boat isn't down south anymore, the vinyl cockpit and bow cover are very difficult to snap to say the least.

First on the to do, is replacement canvas bow and cockpit covers.

The Fridge actually runs off 12VDC only. It's not a dual power one. Mine would come on any time the 3rd battery switch was turned on. I have since wired it to one of the spare Accessory switches in the dash so I can control it on or off.
As you noticed you probably have one or more accessory switches that do nothing. They were just put in for future accessories on the Z275.