"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...