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Chuck Gould wrote:
Either the other plants are more efficient, or current staffing levels
there afford some excess capacity.

I have no inside info but I think Merritt Island must be one of Sea
Ray's oldest plants (if not THE oldest). When I first heard of Sea
Ray, back in the 70's, there were only two plants. Merritt Island and
another in some odd place like Arizona. Not that Arizona is odd but I
remember wondering why anybody would build boats in a desert. Anyhow,
my uninformed guess would be they're just moving some production to a
newer and more modern plant rather than spending $$ on updating at
Merritt. That's just a wild ass guess though.

Rick


I read some of the comments related to the news release of the closing. One
affected person who claims to work at the plant and is now being offered
employment elsewhere in SeaRay (or Boston Whaler) claims that local
government and environmentalist actions establishing manatee zones and speed
limits in the waters adjacent to the plant that were used for testing the
boats have made it impractical to continue building the boats there.
Because of the new restrictions, the boats under test must be idled out too
far requiring time and raising additional issues should a new boat under
test develop problem requiring assistance.

Eisboch