Gofirstclass
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There are some things I like about it but many I do not. First of all, why is it today's boat builders put in cabinetry that looks like they picked it up at Home Depot or Lowe's? What happened to the nice curves and contours that SR used to put into their cabinetry?
And look at that horribly designed head? That may fly well in Europe, but over here I don't think it will be as popular. Have the designers ever been aboard a boat that's rocking around in a heavy sea? How are you going to keep water in those Euro sinks? Everything looks hard, stark, not a bit warm and welcoming. I think SR has lost touch with what segment of the North American population can afford (or wants) a boat of this size. I'd take my 18 year old 550 any day over this new thing.
What's up with that small dinette in the master? Oh, I get the romantic notion of sitting there with your honey sipping a morning coffee and sampling fine pastries, but is that really what people want to do on a boat? Are they going to go up to the galley to fix the morning coffee then tote it all down to the master, then back up to the galley with the dirty dishes? Not likely. Maybe once or twice until the 'thrill' wears off and they realize how much is involved.
It's hard to tell how much room each of those staterooms is going to have. I have 3 staterooms and 2 heads in my boat, but mine is about 5' longer than this one and a couple of inches wider. I have a feeling people who view the brochure are going to be disappointed with the size of the rooms when they walk aboard. I just spent 9 days aboard a 5788 Bayliner on a trip from WA to CA. I had the forward V-berth and it was so small I could not stand at the foot of the bed and change clothes. There was too little space between the foot of the bed and the aft wall/door to that v-berth stateroom.
Now look at the upper helm. Check out how far from the skipper those gauges are? Did SR forget that only us old farts can afford these boats and our eyesight isn't what it used to be? And what is that area in front of the helm supposed to be? A sun pad? How many years have our dermatologists been telling us to stay out of the sun? And with that thought in mind, why not put a full size overhead bimini on the flybridge? You know, the kind that extends all the way forward and provides some shade for the skipper and the people on the port side seat? And why not extend the aft end of the bimini back another couple of feet so people in that aft seating area can be covered? Extending the bimini forward and aft also mean that the owners could add windows to the flybridge that were vertical, not sloped from the windshield back to the bimini. And what about that single-person helm seat? My Admiral loves to sit alongside me when we're on the boat. No way it's going to happen on this new model. Sad.
OK, that's enough bashing. Now to the good things about the boat.....sorry, I can't really find anything in there that I think is an improvement over my boat.
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And look at that horribly designed head? That may fly well in Europe, but over here I don't think it will be as popular. Have the designers ever been aboard a boat that's rocking around in a heavy sea? How are you going to keep water in those Euro sinks? Everything looks hard, stark, not a bit warm and welcoming. I think SR has lost touch with what segment of the North American population can afford (or wants) a boat of this size. I'd take my 18 year old 550 any day over this new thing.
What's up with that small dinette in the master? Oh, I get the romantic notion of sitting there with your honey sipping a morning coffee and sampling fine pastries, but is that really what people want to do on a boat? Are they going to go up to the galley to fix the morning coffee then tote it all down to the master, then back up to the galley with the dirty dishes? Not likely. Maybe once or twice until the 'thrill' wears off and they realize how much is involved.
It's hard to tell how much room each of those staterooms is going to have. I have 3 staterooms and 2 heads in my boat, but mine is about 5' longer than this one and a couple of inches wider. I have a feeling people who view the brochure are going to be disappointed with the size of the rooms when they walk aboard. I just spent 9 days aboard a 5788 Bayliner on a trip from WA to CA. I had the forward V-berth and it was so small I could not stand at the foot of the bed and change clothes. There was too little space between the foot of the bed and the aft wall/door to that v-berth stateroom.
Now look at the upper helm. Check out how far from the skipper those gauges are? Did SR forget that only us old farts can afford these boats and our eyesight isn't what it used to be? And what is that area in front of the helm supposed to be? A sun pad? How many years have our dermatologists been telling us to stay out of the sun? And with that thought in mind, why not put a full size overhead bimini on the flybridge? You know, the kind that extends all the way forward and provides some shade for the skipper and the people on the port side seat? And why not extend the aft end of the bimini back another couple of feet so people in that aft seating area can be covered? Extending the bimini forward and aft also mean that the owners could add windows to the flybridge that were vertical, not sloped from the windshield back to the bimini. And what about that single-person helm seat? My Admiral loves to sit alongside me when we're on the boat. No way it's going to happen on this new model. Sad.
OK, that's enough bashing. Now to the good things about the boat.....sorry, I can't really find anything in there that I think is an improvement over my boat.
GFC
