Where are the bigger Sundancers at SeaRay.com?

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Puget Sounder

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Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but I cannot seem to find the answer.

Is Sea Ray not offering larger Sundancers anymore? I thought there were 350's listed on SeaRay.com just a few weeks ago but nothing bigger. Now I'm not seeing any Sundancers bigger than the 320. Is it just because it's the end of the year and they're switching over from the 2020's over to the 2021's or did they scale back production?
 
They are out of the "big" boat game.
 
Puget Sounder said:
Is Sea Ray not offering larger Sundancers anymore? I thought there were 350's listed on SeaRay.com just a few weeks ago but nothing bigger.
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The recent removal of the 350 coupe and sundancer was noted over the weekend in the "Seven Marine Done" thread where a discussion of Volvo killing the Seven Marine outboard group it had acquired was occuring.

A poster noted that their friend had recently placed the last order for a 350 Sea Ray...
 
All's Well said:
Wouldn't that be nice
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It is actually happening. I bought my 1997 Dancer in 2009. I could not buy a 97 Dancer today, 11 years later, for what I paid. Granted that was right at the end of the financial crisis, but prices are rising. Possibly temporary.

At our marina last summer there were a lot of first time boaters buying into "cottages on the water", which meant prices went up. I expect a lot will realize its not for them once COVID is gone and other alternatives for fun-spend open up like travel again and prices will drop a bit again..
 
The market here in the PNW is certainly a sellers market. Anything that is in good shape is selling quickly. It's unfortunate that Sea Ray is going down market into a very crowded field. It seems like a race to the bottom competing against high volume - low margin boats. Consolidating your product line helps but that will only go so far. If Brunswick is looking to sell then they're interested in the short game and not long term viability of the company.
 
I wouldn't be surprised that Brunswick is shrinking SR to sell them. I wish they would have sold them the first time they tried. I bet they try the bow rider market for another year or so and then put the brand on the market.
 
Puget Sounder said:
The market here in the PNW is certainly a sellers market. Anything that is in good shape is selling quickly. It's unfortunate that Sea Ray is going down market into a very crowded field. It seems like a race to the bottom competing against high volume - low margin boats. Consolidating your product line helps but that will only go so far. If Brunswick is looking to sell then they're interested in the short game and not long term viability of the company.
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I'd expect some of this is just the economy. They're going downmarket because the midmarket is shrinking along with the middle class.
 
I guess the Sea Ray market across of America wasn't good enough to keep the poor idea's of business afloat. When style and design hurts the function it doesn't take long for the people to go else where let alone bang for your buck. There once was a company called Westinghouse had their market cornered in the industrial electric products and they to no longer exist. They diversified themselves into non existence. When a manufacturer becomes so arrogant that they think every decision they make is golden they usually end up in the same place. Sea Ray dropped their big boats and in less then 5 yrs. screwed up the design on the mid sized cruiser so bad that their gone to. I'm glad I will never be in a new boat market because Sea Ray doesn't have a boat I would buy. It's to the point where the only good Sea Ray is a used one. I love my 310 Da. but it's 20 yrs. old the model that replaced it is narrower with less cockpit space that cost more why would I buy it.
 
dvx216 said:
I guess the Sea Ray market across of America wasn't good enough to keep the poor idea's of business afloat. When style and design hurts the function it doesn't take long for the people to go else where let alone bang for your buck. There once was a company called Westinghouse had their market cornered in the industrial electric products and they to no longer exist. They diversified themselves into non existence. When a manufacturer becomes so arrogant that they think every decision they make is golden they usually end up in the same place. Sea Ray dropped their big boats and in less then 5 yrs. screwed up the design on the mid sized cruiser so bad that their gone to. I'm glad I will never be in a new boat market because Sea Ray doesn't have a boat I would buy. It's to the point where the only good Sea Ray is a used one. I love my 310 Da. but it's 20 yrs. old the model that replaced it is narrower with less cockpit space that cost more why would I buy it.
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Forget the design....who can justify the price of these things today
 
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