"Larry" wrote ...
Sea Ray dealers sold this 16' boat for over $16K, which hardly makes
it cheap for a 16' boat in any book. A $16,000 boat should have SOME
quality, don't you think?

I've never owned nor even been in a Sea Ray, so I have no idea on what their
quality might be on their low end nor their high end models... At $16K, it's
around the same price as a new Sugar Sand... From what I've gathered on
boats, I suspect that a good percentage of the $16K price is just for the
engine...

BTW, it's the same 175 V-6 Sport Jet as your SS.

Oh... I was going by the specs in the link that the previous poster
posted... If so, it's probably a very similar boat... Same mission profile,
basically... Probably similar performance specs also... Probably sucks in
3-4 ft seas also... grin

Look at the inside of the holed hull on Pascoe's website. "Cheap" is
a good description of the putty he found. It wasn't a Sea Rayder.

I've never seen a Sugar Sand broken up, so I don't really know first hand
what they are really made of, but from what I hear, they are made from hand
laid fiberglass cloth... I've put mine through some pretty good beating
offshore and it seems quite solid...

Horse****. David Pascoe didn't pull the hull off the Sea Rayder in
those pictures.....the ones with the putty hulls.....not fiberglass

Larry, at least three times now I have pointed out that the "putty" in the Sea
Ray hull was obviously a repair and not part of the original manufacture of the
boat. The evidence is clear- the color, workmanship, and texture is different
than the surrounding material, and it does not appear to have "aged" at all.
Until you care to offer an explanation for this phenomenon or refute my
accurate observation, don't keep trotting out the same crippled horse and
calling it a thoroughbred fact.


Oh, Sea Ray continues to make plenty of mistakes......It's a
Brunswick, you know.....like Bayliner.

Cheap

So, unable to observe, discuss, or debate
the issue on a factual level.......let's all just
take the simple approach that every boat built by the largest boat manufacturer
on the planet is a POS?

If you owned a Honda snowblower, would you presume it was built the same way as
an Acura? Why not? They both have wheels and are made by Honda, right?