dcpringle
Active Member
- Dec 13, 2012
- 492
- Boat Info
- 2000 Sea Ray 480DB "Diamond Girl"
- Engines
- Cat 3196 660HP
Just to throw my 2 cents in here, I started with a Rinker 330 Fiesta Vee (36') for my first boat. Everyone above had great points and are spot on with their recommendations. I kept my first boat for 8 years before upgrading to my current boat which is a Sea Ray 480. Yes, another big bump. Things i've learned along the way, i'd never buy another large boat with IOs which is in the water all the time. Before purchasing our Rinker, we came up with stuff we wanted to do with it. IE where we'd like to visit? what we want to do with it... etc That more than anything drove the selection of the boat. We quickly ruled out the smaller boats because of where we wanted to go and the redundancies(dual engines) we were after. Hope this helps.