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Meridian 411 Sedan
The published record on this model and what owners report, with the
questions worth asking while a boat is still a listing. This page covers the model.
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The published record
| Length overall | 46.0 ft |
| Beam | 14.17 ft |
| Draft | 3'9" |
| Fuel | 400 gal |
| Water | 150 gal |
| Holding | 55 gal |
Source: the Bayview Yachts listing for a 2003 411.
If a listing disagrees with these numbers, the listing may still be right. Settle the
difference before it costs you.
A planing sedan with a low published clearance. Check how the crew gets forward on her narrow side decks, and get a fuel burn at Loop speed.
The Meridian 411 Sedan is a two-stateroom flybridge cruiser seen in listings from 2003 to 2008, sold as a 41-footer but about 46 feet overall. Listings give a 14'2" beam, a 3'9" draft and 15 feet of bridge clearance, with 400 gallons of fuel. She planes: one review boat cruised at about 15 knots on twin 375 hp Cummins. That review calls the side decks narrow but safe.
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CLAIMstated by one source, not yet confirmed
QUESTIONopen, and settled by looking at the boat itself
Sources are linked where published.
Air draft
CLAIM
Owners put her at 17 to 18'6" with the radar up, under the Loop's 19'6" limit
Listings from Bayview Yachts and MZ Yachts give 15 feet of bridge clearance, but owners on the Meridian Yacht Owners forum report more. In 2022 one owner measured a 2006 411 at 16'11" to the top of the factory radar dome, with the all-round light a few inches higher. Another 2006 owner said she cleared 19-foot bridges in Florida with about a foot to spare, and another quoted 18'6" from a spec sheet. A custom hinged radar arch on one 2006 boat shows two 411s can stand at different heights.
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Meridian Yacht Owners forum (2022); Bayview Yachts and MZ Yachts listings
Your move: Measure from the waterline to the highest point with the antennas and light up, then ask what folds and measure again.
Size
CLAIM
Sold as a 41-footer, she's about 46 feet overall
Bayview Yachts lists a length overall of 46 feet and a length on deck of 41 feet, and MZ Yachts also gives 46 feet. Listings that say 41 feet are quoting the deck length. That still fits the Loop, but marinas charge by the foot overall.
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Bayview Yachts and MZ Yachts listings
Your move: Measure from the pulpit to the swim platform and price your dockage at that length.
Getting forward
QUESTION
Can your crew get from the cockpit to the bow safely?
David Lockwood's review describes molded steps up from the cockpit to "narrow but safe" side decks, with molded toe rails and handrails. Broker copy for the model calls the same side decks wide. Whoever handles lines at the bow will walk this route at every lock and every dock.
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David Lockwood's 411 Meridian review (via Denison Yacht Sales)
Your move: Walk it with the person who'll handle lines, from the cockpit up the steps to the bow. Check that a handrail runs the full length of the cabin on both sides.
Speed
CLAIM
About 15 knots at cruise in one review, on twin 375 hp Cummins
Lockwood's review boat cruised at 15.3 knots at 2,000 rpm with half fuel and water, ran 18 to 20 knots at 2,350 to 2,500 rpm, and topped out at 24.2 knots at 2,750 rpm. It's a planing boat. The review gives no fuel burn.
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David Lockwood's 411 Meridian review (via Denison Yacht Sales)
Your move: On the sea trial, run her at 7 to 8 knots as well as at cruise, since that's where she'll spend most of the Loop.
Fuel & range
CLAIM
About 900 miles of range at 8 knots, on an estimate with a wide margin
Lockwood's review boat made 7.85 knots at 1,150 rpm. Cummins' published fuel curve for the 370 hp 6BTA gives 1.3 gallons per hour per engine at 1,000 rpm and 1.9 at 1,200, so about 1.75 at 1,150, or 3.5 for both. Holding back 10% of 400 gallons leaves 360: 360 ÷ 3.5 is about 103 hours, and 103 × 7.85 knots is about 800 nautical miles, or about 900 statute miles. The curve is the maker's theory, not a measurement on this hull, but the Loop's longest fuel stretch is about 250 miles, so she'd clear it at three times this burn.
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Cummins 6BTA5.9-M 370 hp performance curve (M-91260); Lockwood's review
Your move: On the sea trial, run her at 1,150 to 1,200 rpm and read the fuel flow on both engines. Check the engine data plates match the 370 hp 6BTA.
QUESTION
What shape are the aluminum fuel tanks in?
Lockwood's review says the 411's aluminum fuel tanks sit outboard in the engine room. We found no public report of a 411 tank leaking, but on the Meridian Yacht Owners forum a 2012 441 owner found a leaking port tank at eight years old, and a 368 owner wrote that the starboard tank was leaking at survey, two years after the other was replaced, at about $13,000 to $14,000 each with an engine moved out of the way.
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Lockwood's review; Meridian Yacht Owners forum (2020)
Your move: Ask whether the tanks are original or replaced, and get the invoice if replaced. Have the surveyor inspect every surface they can see and look for weeps or fuel in the bilge.
Reading the boat
CLAIM
The lower helm was optional, so check whether this boat has one
Lockwood's review boat had the optional lower helm on the port side. Without it she's driven from the flybridge only. The review's other small complaints: the windscreen frame cut across his view from the bridge, there's no intercom, no inspection glass on the fuel filters, and no bowsprit, so anchor lines can chafe the deck.
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David Lockwood's 411 Meridian review (via Denison Yacht Sales)
Your move: Check for a lower helm, and sit at the bridge helm to see the windscreen frame for yourself.
Recalls
CLAIM
Two Coast Guard recall campaigns name the 411, and both are closed
The Coast Guard's recall database lists campaign 050055T, opened in 2005 for Meridian's 408, 411 and 459, covering 178 boats, and 080042T, opened in 2008 for three models including the 411 Sedan Bridge, covering 36 boats. The public records don't say what the defect was.
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U.S. Coast Guard recall database, campaigns 050055T and 080042T
Your move: Give the hull identification number to a Meridian or Brunswick dealer and ask whether either recall applied to her and whether the work was done.
Systems
CLAIM
What other owners have been replacing: the flybridge enclosure and the A/C
Three listings each show a replaced flybridge enclosure (one cost $15,000) and replaced air conditioning units or raw-water pumps, on boats now 18 to 23 years old. These are wear items, and they add up.
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Ward Yacht Sales and MZ Yachts listings
Your move: Ask the age of the enclosure and of each A/C unit, and run every zone on heat and cool during the sea trial.
Leaks
CLAIM
Water under the windshield glass: owners of 411s and 391s have had them resealed
On the Meridian Yacht Owners forum in 2020, a 2007 411 owner found water sitting under the windshield where the black frit had washed away, with no leak inside yet. A glazier quoted $2,500 to remove one windshield, repair the frit and rebed it, plus $700 a side for the salon window seals. Owners of 391s reported the same problem and had theirs resealed.
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Meridian Yacht Owners forum, "411 Water Under Windshield" (2020)
Your move: Take the windshield cover off and look for water or washed-out black frit along the bottom of the glass, and check the salon window seals.
Hull & structure
QUESTION
Is the wood in the hull fully sealed in fiberglass?
On the Meridian Yacht Owners forum in 2020, a buyer posted a surveyor's stringer report on a Meridian 391 describing voids in the fiberglass over the wood reinforcement that let bilge water reach the wood, and a 2006 368 owner found transom wood not fully covered by glass, with rot. Neither is a 411, and we found no 411 report, but they're from the same builder and the same years.
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Meridian Yacht Owners forum, "disappointing survey" (2020)
Your move: Ask the surveyor to sound and moisture-test the stringers and transom, and to look at the glass over the wood wherever it can be seen.
Engines
The engines research is part of the full profile inside the
product. It covers factory options, tested performance and the engine-specific
questions in our members' dossiers, and it travels with every dossier and survey brief
built on this model.
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