You have a Friday afternoon, a bag already packed, and no interest in explaining your weekend to a captain. Off the dock in twenty minutes, anchored somewhere quiet before dark, asleep aboard — then able to do it again next weekend without a service appointment in between. That last clause is where most 32-foot cruisers quietly fail you.
Sea Ray builds the Sundancer 320 twice. There is a sterndrive version, and there is this one. They are not the same boat with different motors bolted on.
Two Boats, One Model Number
Start here, because it is the most common mistake buyers make shopping this model online.
The sterndrive Sundancer 320 is 32'10" long and carries 158 gallons of fuel. This boat — the Outboard — is 34'9", carries 220 gallons, and has a published dry weight of 14,566 pounds. That is nearly two feet of extra length and 62 additional gallons aboard. Beam is 10'7" on both, and Sea Ray rates both at Sleeps: Four.
The extra length is not cabin. It is transom. Two Mercury 350 Verado V10 outboards hang off the back of this boat, and Sea Ray stretched the hull to carry them. What the yard did with the volume that used to hold two sterndrive packages is the interesting part: 62 more gallons of fuel, in a boat whose entire purpose is going somewhere and staying.
Who It's For
This is for the owner who refuses to choose between cruiser capability and outboard ownership.
You want a cabin your family can genuinely sleep in — a V-berth, a fully finished head compartment, a galley — and you also want to open a cowling yourself on a Sunday morning. Sea Ray's own lineup shows how many buyers now want exactly that: nearly every Sundancer and SLX model in the range is offered in both drive configurations.
It is not a liveaboard — 32 gallons of water and a 27-gallon holding tank set the mission at weekends, not weeks. And it is not the choice if an uninterrupted swim platform is what you care about most. Two V10s occupy the back of this boat, and no platform design changes that.
Three Zones, and the One Decision That Changes the Boat
Sea Ray describes the layout in three entertainment zones, and the description is accurate rather than promotional: a lounge area, an open cockpit with convertible seating, and the cabin below.
The bow is a full lounging area with actuated headrests and armrests — powered and adjustable, so the seats work underway rather than only at anchor. The helm carries a Dual Digital Dash with Simrad touchscreen displays and a dual seat built for a long run. Below, Sea Ray finishes the cabin the way it finishes its larger cruisers: solid-surface countertops, stainless trim, a fully finished head compartment and multi-tone upholstery.
The decision that changes this boat more than any other is the windshield. Sea Ray offers three configurations — an open windshield as standard, an open coupe windshield, and a full coupe enclosure. Add the optional opening canvas section for the fiberglass hardtop and an optional bow sunshade, and the same hull is either a wide-open Florida dayboat or a weather-tight shoulder-season cruiser. It is not a trim level; it is a different boat.
For overnighting, the options list is where the boat earns its keep: air conditioning and heating for the cabin only or for cockpit and cabin, a gas generator, opening portlights, a cockpit refrigerator, a built-in cockpit grill, and a flat-screen television at the V-berth.
Performance, and the Numbers Sea Ray Does Not Publish
Standard power is twin Mercury 350 Verado V10 outboards with Joystick Piloting, SmartCraft Digital Throttle & Shift and e-Steering. The option list adds the same T-350 pair in white and a twin Mercury 400 Verado V10 package at T-400 hp.
Sea Ray publishes no speed figure and no range figure for the Sundancer 320 Outboard. The specification block runs length, beam, fuel, propulsion, draft trimmed down and up, dry weight, deadrise, water, holding tank, capacity rating — and then ends at "Sleeps: Four." There is no cruising speed, no wide-open throttle band, no range. That is a deliberate absence on Sea Ray's part, not an oversight in our research, and it is worth knowing that the SLX 350 and SLX 350 Outboard both carry published throttle bands while both Sundancer 320s do not.
What Sea Ray does publish is a 21-degree deadrise and two draft figures: 44 inches trimmed down, 32 inches trimmed up. Sit with the first of those for a moment. The sterndrive Sundancer 320's published trim-down draft is 41 inches. Outboards are usually the shallower answer, and by Sea Ray's own numbers this pair is the exception when the motors are down. If you run thin water, 32 inches trimmed up is the figure to plan your day around.
The sea trial then has one job. Hold the speed you would actually hold for an hour, read the fuel flow off the Mercury display, divide 220 gallons by it and take ten percent off for reserve. That gives you a figure grounded in your boat, your load and your water — worth more than any number printed anywhere, including here, which is why there is not one.
Ownership
The outboard argument is not really about horsepower. It is about the Sunday morning.
There are no bellows to inspect, no gimbal bearing to service, no drive to pull. Routine work happens under a cowling at eye level, and a salt-water flush is a hose connection rather than a procedure. That is the unromantic reason the outboard cruiser exists.
The warranty is where Sea Ray draws a line by category rather than by size. As a Sundancer, this boat carries the three-year SENTIN3L bow-to-stern factory warranty plus a 10-year Limited Structural Hull/Deck warranty to the original owner. Sea Ray's SLX sport boats get five years bow-to-stern instead — the same yard, a different scheme, because Sundancers are filed as sport cruisers.
Published Specifications
| Specification | Sundancer 320 Outboard |
|---|---|
| Length Overall | 34'9" |
| Beam | 10'7" |
| Draft | 44" trim down / 32" trim up |
| Dry Weight | 14,566 lb |
| Deadrise | 21° |
| Fuel Capacity | 220 gal |
| Water Capacity | 32 gal |
| Holding Tank | 27 gal |
| Standard Propulsion | Twin Mercury 350 Verado V10 outboards with Joystick Piloting (T-350 hp) |
| Optional Propulsion | Twin Mercury 400 Verado V10 with Joystick Piloting (T-400 hp) |
| Accommodation | Sleeps four |
| Capacity Rating | Yacht Certified |
| Speed / Range | Not published by Sea Ray |
Where to Start
Two things to do on the dock. Go below with everyone who will actually sleep aboard and put them in their berths — "sleeps four" is Sea Ray's rating, but only your four can judge it. Then stand at the three windshield configurations in sequence and be honest about your climate.
Then check your slip. Sea Ray publishes a single Length Overall of 34'9" for this boat and no separate with-platform figure, so confirm how your marina measures before you sign anything.
Talk it through with us: TS@MintedYachts.com, +1 (404) 805-9819, or the form on this page.