Sea Ray's worst design

Rondds, great photoshop work. That should be a poster somewhere.

I'll chime in to agree with the integral steps / sliding door nightmare on the 280DA. The plastic/nylon block that was used as the sliding mechanism in the top-portside of the door worked itself loose while my 280DA was transported from Annapolis to Buffalo. When it arrived, the door wouldn't move because that bloody block was cockeyed. The door finally budged when I was able to tear the block out from the door (2 ss screws held it in), and we lived with it that way until we traded it in on the next one...
 
Sea Ray does make boats with great access to engines - like mine! at least 1' between engines and full access all the way around. Even has a flat floor and a diamond plate seat on the centre line making it easy to get around.

Oh - Ya - I just sacrificed having an AFT CABIN to get it though!

It's all about compromise...
 
Jimmy
I've got straight drives like you and our beams are likely the same. But I've only got about 5" btwn the manifolds. The mid1990s generation 370DA is also a 12'6" beam but somehow you can stand btwn those engines! Looks like Andrew's 360 (12'6" beam also???) has plenty-o-room.
 
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Holy crap Dr. Ron. You got a huge pair of DB's. Are they both yours? I can fit my red dinghy in there.:smt043Yeah that fuel fill placement is pretty bad. I've seen that on a few new models too.
 
Brian
Only one is mine. The other is my neighbor's. Despite my fear of Gary seeing this (wait, are my antennae straight???), it is a K-mart resin box properly primed and painted white. The marina requires white dock boxes and spending 5x what I paid for something smaller would have been fiscally irresponsible!
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I vote for the fuel fill location. My back still hurts from gassing up my 300 WE and I sold the boat last July.
 
Ron, it looks like your fills were designed for the EC...they just forgot to move them backward when they used the same hull for the DB :smt021
 
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Jimmy
I've got straight drives like you and our beams are likely the same. But I've only got about 5" btwn the manifolds. The mid1990s generation 370DA is also a 12'6" beam but somehow you can stand btwn those engines! Looks like Andrew's 360 (12'6" beam also???) has plenty-o-room.
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Yep, 12'6" beam and I can stand between the engines. I can't turn around between them like my kids can, but it is better than lots of other ER's I've seen.

Still, I'm not looking forward to changing the impellers - especially on the port engine.

Nor am I looking forward to replacing the duck bills - the holding tank sits up on the portside ER ledge, and the top of the deck is only 3 or 4 inches above the vacuflush pump. I don't know how I'll get access to that thing...
 
Trim Sender replacement (Drive trim Up / Down positon)
Why must you take the whole Drive apart, a major job just past a tiny couple of wires from the outside to the inside of the boat?
 
Pietro
The 340EC has a different hull than I do. Beam on them is 11'11", I'm 12'6".
 
See my thread on replacing the door hardware on my 340! Yikes! Luckily my fuel fills are on top, but with my slightly skinnier beam I probably get a full 3" between the manifolds. I never cried about changing plugs like some of the sedan folks! Ha!
 
Like others have mentioned the cabin door on my 280 totally blows as does the swim platform ladder that comes off the side of the platform. Who was the genius who thought of that?
 
My telescoping swim platform ladder by far!! My '96 Four Winns 200 had a better design. (I actually really like my cabin door and love my transom door.
 
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