Brunswick selling off Sea Ray brand

^^^ What he said!

Also, new Sundancers have such limited cockpit space that's open to the elements. I found sitting back there to be tight and confining because you have the salon door and structure completely overwhelm your view. Maybe great for colder environments but they've lost me as a future buyer of a used one.

Speaking of buying used, used boat buyers are critical to Sea Ray's future. It's this secondary market that makes it more affordable (kind of) for the new boat buyer to sell his old boat and move up. Without this strong resale the cost for the new boat even escalates more and is a barrier to the purchase.


I completely agree . As a recent buyer of a '05 280DA, it's the only way we could afford to upgrade from a 21. This is our first Sea Ray, and after boating for 30 years and owner of 6 boats including a '42 Beneteau sailboat (bought new) I'm very impressed with the gelcoat. Just finished waxing the topsides and hull and not one spider crack in the goat on a 12 year old boat - nice!
 
Stop going on about millenials and stick to the subject at hand.
^^^^^^^^

Every generation has had their own difficulties. Time to put on your big boy pants and get on with your life. Quit blaming others for what you don't have and work your tail off to get it. If you want it bad enough it'll happen.

Back to SeaRay ruining its style..
 
I like the fit and finish of the Euro look, but IMHO a Sundancer should have a long clean bow line. Not look like a Sedan Bridge that went under a low bridge and lost the upper portion.

Also, the newer designs have a narrower beam from what a SR sales rep told me. And I for one like a wide stern when it comes to choppy water.
 

What a bunch of cry babies. Go make some better decisions in life and things will fall into place. I am 40. I worked hard for a BSME at a good college. I found a good job and worked my way up like we are all supposed to do. I didn't cry to my boss/society about how the other guys made more money, had more time off ect.

Go figure it out buddy... Its not that complicated. Also, like my Mom used to tell me, "a fair is where you go to ride rides" Life isn't fair!!!
 
Any link that sends you to Huff post isn't worth clicking on. Utter trash and super biased.
 
Agree with the newer euro styling, not a big fan. I like the late 90's to mid 2000's styling. I generally like the more classic looking boats - not the tri hull Glassmasters mind you and I'll pass on the Triton bassboa in metaflake blue, but I liked it when you could look at a SeaRay, any size and know right away from the lines it was a SeaRay.
 
When I saw "Wingle$$ has children", I didn't even need to see who made the post. Glad you are back Gary, even if you only have time for a drive-by.

I can turn in tonite with fond memories of the stuffed toy your pups had de-winged that you then perched on the urinal and photographed.



Ahhhh the good ole days. Those were some fun times. Don't forget the stoned wing!e$$ duck.
 
What a bunch of cry babies. Go make some better decisions in life and things will fall into place. I am 40. I worked hard for a BSME at a good college. I found a good job and worked my way up like we are all supposed to do. I didn't cry to my boss/society about how the other guys made more money, had more time off ect.

Go figure it out buddy... Its not that complicated. Also, like my Mom used to tell me, "a fair is where you go to ride rides" Life isn't fair!!!
+1 for a smart Mom, made me think of some advice my father gave 50 years ago....'son, if you don't earn a seat at the table all you'll get is the crumbs that fall off the edge'
 
Perhaps there will be an amassment at one of the winter boat shows what the intentions are. Now model and new path forward.
 
^^^^^^^^

Every generation has had their own difficulties. Time to put on your big boy pants and get on with your life. Quit blaming others for what you don't have and work your tail off to get it. If you want it bad enough it'll happen.

Back to SeaRay ruining its style..
Amen to that!
These crybabies wonder why they can’t get ahead.
I got out of the service in 1975 and came home to a fiscal crisis in the city that I lived in. Jobs were scarce and low paying. I worked two weeks of every month just to meet the rent, and after busting my butt to get ahead and get myself in a position to buy my first house years later in the early 80’s the interest rate on 30 year fixed mortgages was more than 12% and Home prices were rising faster than I could make money.
College? I did that while working full time and enough extra hours wherever and whenever I could get them to help me pay for it.
Life was great and I wouldn’t have traded my life experiences for the world.
I’m old now, but my kids are 20 & 17. They’re both hard workers academically, and at their paying jobs they work at in their off time, and they know better than to whine.
 
+1 for a smart Mom, made me think of some advice my father gave 50 years ago....'son, if you don't earn a seat at the table all you'll get is the crumbs that fall off the edge'

That’s essentially the same philosophy that I’ve been instilling in my kids since they were little.
 
That’s essentially the same philosophy that I’ve been instilling in my kids since they were little.
My father didn't spend alot of time on any subject, tell ya' once, now you should know.

A couple of my favorites.... Taxes, 'don't mess with Uncle Sam, give him every cent he has comin' and not one cent more'. Marriage, 'a marriage is like a team of horses, when they pull together they can get a lot done'.

My father just about died in WW2. It took some months in a VA hospital but he survived only missing his left arm.

He said, 'I felt sorry for myself, why did this happen to me? One day not long before I was checking out I got to thinking about the other guys, some had no arms at all, some had no legs either, some never did come home. I realized I was lucky, I still wondered why me but from the opposite perspective. That was about the time I decided I got what I got, it's up to me to make the best of it'.
 
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Average cost of a home is 381,000??? Well maybe you should start with a 200 k house then. I don’t know or care where you live, but that kind of scratch will buy you a really nice house in my neck of the woods. Your stats are jacked buddy. Sorry.
 
oh sh!t.....it's getting deep now

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Some of these posts remind me of back in the day when I had to walk to school 5 miles uphill both ways in waist deep snow.
As far as boat styles go, the most pleasing lines to the eye in my my view are those with flared bows that are higher than the sterns.
 
ADDvanced:.......

30 year mortgage in 1975 average was 9.05%
30 year mortgage in 1982 average was 16.04%
30 year mortgage in 1992 average was 8.39%
30 year mortgage in 2002 average was 6.54%
30 year mortgage in 2012 average was 3.66%
30 year mortgage in 2016 average was 3.65%

You had it easy.

http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html
 

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