Hifirush
Member
- Mar 21, 2014
- 542
- Boat Info
- 1998 330 DA, 7.4 MPI with V-Drives, raw water cooled, Westerbeke
- Engines
- twin 7.4 MPI’s with V-Drives
Trit21, you are correct about the YF and Contender, as well as many, many other CC's. From a resale standpoint, I also agree on the SeaRays, meaning there are many of them.
The gist of this thread, I think is, the not liking the broad brush painting of SeaRay owners as arrogant, foolish, drunken and (add your nasty thoughts here....). What hurts good SeaRay owners is that with any comments like this, is the element of truth. Element, meaning there are some.
In my marina, we have some real jerks and horses behinds that own SeaRay's as well as other nice cruisers, flybridges and the like. They are exception, not the rule.
By that same token, there are many fisherman "types", "bass boats", CC's etc that are just as bad and if I wanted to, could be made out like the thread in THT only reading "Fishing Types.....(fill in with unkind expletives). But what would that serve?
SeaRay is my boat of choice, I love my old girl and if I had the money, I'd have a newer or perhaps larger one. I also very much like a Viking, Hatty or a custom Carolina, but that will probably never come to pass for many reasons. I find CC's very nice boats too. I even like sailboats, if not always liking the owners. I LIKE ALL boats, just about.
What I find offensive, is the nastiness of certain owners of all types of boats, feeling they are superior to someone else for whatever reason they feel. Sure, we can all take pride in our boats, feel our boats are our best choices. But no one is superior, or better than someone. If you want to ask me my thoughts on 1998 330DA's, I can give you my opinion, and I will tell you the good the bad and the ugly. But it is my thoughts. If you have a Bayliner, it doesn't make you less of a boater than I. Nor do I feel my boat is inferior to something nicer.
I have lurked on THT for over a year. I have never posted. I very much like the site, it has different topics about our passion. Some I know nothing about, mostly, its main course, fishing! But I love the restore and cold molded threads.
I haven't posted here in a while either, but that is just a choice. I love this site as well, in fact, my day always starts with a quick scroll through the "last 24 hours"! But this thread is one I feel I can contribute.
People will be people. We all have a certain amount of self importance, feel we have a great point of view, our methods are the right ones, and that our experiences are worth telling to the world. I suppose this is all true, myself very much included. But our "way" does NOT makes us better than each other. I think that is what THT's thread is showing the worst of.
Matt
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The gist of this thread, I think is, the not liking the broad brush painting of SeaRay owners as arrogant, foolish, drunken and (add your nasty thoughts here....). What hurts good SeaRay owners is that with any comments like this, is the element of truth. Element, meaning there are some.
In my marina, we have some real jerks and horses behinds that own SeaRay's as well as other nice cruisers, flybridges and the like. They are exception, not the rule.
By that same token, there are many fisherman "types", "bass boats", CC's etc that are just as bad and if I wanted to, could be made out like the thread in THT only reading "Fishing Types.....(fill in with unkind expletives). But what would that serve?
SeaRay is my boat of choice, I love my old girl and if I had the money, I'd have a newer or perhaps larger one. I also very much like a Viking, Hatty or a custom Carolina, but that will probably never come to pass for many reasons. I find CC's very nice boats too. I even like sailboats, if not always liking the owners. I LIKE ALL boats, just about.
What I find offensive, is the nastiness of certain owners of all types of boats, feeling they are superior to someone else for whatever reason they feel. Sure, we can all take pride in our boats, feel our boats are our best choices. But no one is superior, or better than someone. If you want to ask me my thoughts on 1998 330DA's, I can give you my opinion, and I will tell you the good the bad and the ugly. But it is my thoughts. If you have a Bayliner, it doesn't make you less of a boater than I. Nor do I feel my boat is inferior to something nicer.
I have lurked on THT for over a year. I have never posted. I very much like the site, it has different topics about our passion. Some I know nothing about, mostly, its main course, fishing! But I love the restore and cold molded threads.
I haven't posted here in a while either, but that is just a choice. I love this site as well, in fact, my day always starts with a quick scroll through the "last 24 hours"! But this thread is one I feel I can contribute.
People will be people. We all have a certain amount of self importance, feel we have a great point of view, our methods are the right ones, and that our experiences are worth telling to the world. I suppose this is all true, myself very much included. But our "way" does NOT makes us better than each other. I think that is what THT's thread is showing the worst of.
Matt
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