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Last year, the Crownline trademark was introduced to the Pacific NW by
Sport Boat Northwest. Billy Schumacher and Rick English invited us
along for one of the very first test rides, and we were very impressed
with fit, finish, overall design, and the absolutely "solid" feel
of the boat underway. Apparently our general opinion of the brand is
not all that unique: Crownline won the JD Power Customer Satisfaction
award for small runabouts in 2004, and finished in an absolute tie for
first place again in 2005. We believe that is the very first time any
boat earned "first place" honors in the small runabout category two
years in a row.

Sport Boat NW is stocking a very interesting boat built by Crownline,
the 275 CCR.
The 275 CCR is a very well-equipped "cuddy cabin" design that can
be used in a variety of ways certain to appeal to every member of most
boating families.

The 275 CCR is 28'8" LOA ..............



So what were the downsides of the boat Chuck? ;-)

Mostly a group of cuddy-cabin "isms". IMO.

I want a cabin I can stand up in, personally, but you don't find that
in most boats in this category.
No place for charting. Everybody sits on the head, regardless of gender
or type of use. Stowage at a real premium. All cuddy-cabinisms.

This boat would be super for a weekend. It would be suitable for longer
cruises (like a 10 day vacation) with frequent reprovisioning. Not that
big an inconvenience, as I suspect anybody running that big engine
really hard will be stopping for fuel every day or so anyway.

If I were designing the boat, I would put in some sort of galley stove
as a standard item. The small fridge is standard, and so is the
microwave. As there is no gen set, you can't even make coffee unless
you're on the 110 umblilical cord. Maybe the alcohol electric stove is
an option to help reduce the mfgr's liability- those things do cause a
bit of damage sometimes and there could be some finite legal point
revolving around "the customer asked for the stove, specificially"?
Who knows. The text does say that a cooktop is optional, not standard.

Did I find a glaring cheapness or obvious deficiency? Frankly, no.
There are hundreds of little subjective things that any two people
would disagree on- but during the brief inspection described
there was nothing that seemed tackily done.

On 9 Apr 2005 20:27:48 -0700, wrote:

If I were designing the boat, I would put in some sort of galley stove
as a standard item. The small fridge is standard, and so is the
microwave. As there is no gen set, you can't even make coffee unless
you're on the 110 umblilical cord.

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An inverter or small one burner butane stove takes care of that pretty
easily. I can't imagine spending more than a long weekend on board
however.