JimH wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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JimH wrote:
"JimH" wrote in message
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"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Mar 12, 1:00?pm, "JimH" wrote:



(Brunswick bought Sea Ray in 1986).


Yep, and they did not influence designs until 1989 or 1990 if I recall.
The quality also went into the dumper at that same time.

BTW: David Pascoe seems to agree. A local surveyor with a great
reputation (he surveyed 3 of my boats and is a buyers surveyor) also
agrees that they are over rated and over priced..

Some food for thought:

http://www.docksidereports.com/boatr..._sundancer.htm

http://www.yachtsurvey.com/boatrevie...dancer_290.htm

While Pascoe is not God, he does show some serious production flaws in
fairly high priced boats. But I guess the gold chain wearing crowd with
small private parts think they are being admired when they cruise the
water in their Sea Ray as image is everything to some. ;-)
Most of the big Sea Rays I see are dock queens.

Regardless of size, Sea Ray boats are not at the Mercedes Benz class
standards as Chuck was previously referring to.

Anyone thinking that SR quality did not take a nose dive shortly after
Brunswick purchased them knows nothing about boats.



JimH,

You need to talk to your surveyor, David Pascoe, he seems to disagree
with your appraisal of SeaRay going down the crapper.

His comments concerning a 1995 SeaRay include: Many of our readers
think that we knock Sea Ray too hard. Some ask questions like, "You
don't like Sea Rays very much, do you?" Actually, compared to the
competition, we like them just fine, albeit with some serious nitpicking.

However, being the largest selling boat builder in the world, and
although their boats have a reasonably well-deserved reputation for
quality we've long felt that, for the price, there was plenty of room
for improvement