New Sea Ray/BMW Collaboration

Too bad my current SR will be the last one I ever own. I wonder how the sales are going against the competition with the new line-up?
 
Let's hope they don't follow BMW's lead and make it impossible to find any maintenance info.
 
Overall it seems like a decent boat but I did a build at what I would consider must-have options and the price was upper $800K. Even if the street price makes it $700K-$750K that's a TON of money for a mostly day-cruiser. This price point puts them head to head with Formula's 38 SSC which I think is superior in looks and functionality and probably resale.

They keep going on about the hull line and the inserted Sea Ray logo embedded in it likes it's iconic like the twin kidney BMW grill. Come on. Is that really such a unique and distinctive feature of the boat??? Was that what immediately gave you the warm fuzzies when you saw it and felt 'gosh they finally built a Sea Ray I can relate to'. ......nope.

I'm also not to sure about their convertible rear floppy seat. When you lay back the backrest you get a very very short sunpad. I assume you have to go through some other gyrations to get it to be more useful.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to see one and it'll change my mind. I hope to be in the market for a boat similar to this in a few years and the more options to choose from the merrier.
 
bahamabreisus said:
Not a fan of the style. Too much glass, not very sleek. Guess I am a fan of the traditional Sea Ray style.
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Me to - heck - if it wasn't wood hulled with Detroit's, I love the looks of the Chris Craft Constellation 65! there were a lot of those on the dock where I grew up in Nashville in the 50's and 60's.
 
Creekwood said:
Author of the article clearly knows nothing about boats.
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That's all right. Car guys know a lot. The new Sea Rays will have tail fins. Now we've got to get started on boat guys designing cars.
 
Looking at this view, I would expect more interior out of an almost 40-foot long cruiser.

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Throw the motors out on the ass end then not utilize the space left over in the ER to make living space bigger seems like a waste. Someone needs to tell them boats really don't have big trunks. So if BMW helped there should be at least a 20K cup holders as an option to go alone with the other over priced bells and whistles.
 
Why do you need 3 outboards? Should offer twins as standard. I like the 320 ob better.
 
Craig said:
Why do you need 3 outboards? Should offer twins as standard. I like the 320 ob better.
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I think it would be a complete dog with twins. Even in the Boattest review he makes a point that you need to hammer the triples down to come out of the hole and get on plane otherwise it'll languish there. With twins you'd be dead in the water if you had a crowd onboard.
 
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