Hey MacoJoe!

[fishingwithblue]

I LOVE your boat, who makes the Sea Ox. I'm also a mako junky and it reminds me of one. Will you tell me about your hard top, I wanna put me on the V20 steplift. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!:love:

[macojoe]

I know a lot of people don't like them but Bay liner makes one hell of a boat including the Sea Ox, If you pick up a nice Trophy and you will have the best of the best!!
Top is from Atlantic Towers NJ. $3000 They will make for any boat just give them a call!!

[Bygracealone]

MJ, is that the same Bayliner that also makes the V20 and isn't the designer's name Raymont Hunter? Yeah, that's it...

You're cold man...

[chumbucket]

MJ, is that the same Bayliner that also makes the V20 and isn't the designer's name Raymont Hunter? Yeah, that's it...

You're cold man...
:you:

[tsubaki]

I LOVE your boat, who makes the Sea Ox. I'm also a mako junky and it reminds me of one. Will you tell me about your hard top, I wanna put me on the V20 steplift. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!:love:
There is a guy in Thunderbolt that will custom make you one.
Friend of mine had one made for his Key West.
Trying to remember, best I can tell, it was Boykin Marine.

[macojoe]

You guys are great!! I knew you guys would have my back and to prove they are great boats!!

[fishingwithblue]

Thanks

[Bygracealone]

Fish,

Sea Ox is the name of the company that manufactured the Sea Ox. They're no longer in production. I think they went out of business in 1994.

MJ is just cold hearted. Don't mind him.

[fishingwithblue]

So who makes the damn boat?

[macojoe]

And it was going so good to!! :you:

Sea Ox was made by Sea Ox, and went out of biz in 1994.

Started by former Grady White employee's. Sea Ox boats built by North American Fiberglass in Greenville, North Carolina from 1977 to about 1989, then was sold out to I believe May-Craft boats? and they made them till like 1994.

Relax fishman!! Its all in fun! :beer:

[fishingwithblue]

I know a lot of people don't like them but Bay liner makes one hell of a boat including the Sea Ox, If you pick up a nice Trophy and you will have the best of the best!!
Top is from Atlantic Towers NJ. $3000 They will make for any boat just give them a call!!

:clap:I took that hook/line/sinker........I hate bayliners and a man at my community boat dock in a Trophy untied my boat to make room for his when there was none. He tied it back wrong and made a nice pressure spider crack on the bow flare. I was gonna piss on his deck but I think I'll wait to find out where he lives and do it on his door!:fight:

[Seacrets]

This is a fact, alot of people like an older Robalo. Well, they indeed were made in the same plant as the Bayliner Trophy. Trophys and Robalos coming off the same lines at the same time.

[spareparts]

not doubting you, but its hard for me to beleive (speaking of the older boats)that a boat made by US Marine(Bayliner) in Washinton was making boats for AMF(Robalo) in Florida. Later on after both boat companies were purchased by Brunswick, I could see them being made in the same plant, lots of compaines do that. But I do believe they were separate in their earlier days(pre 1998). As far as the Sea Ox goes, I do believe they are the general molds that May Craft is using now, at least they look a lot alike, I saw a 2008 center console(yes, they are still in business) today that looked a whole lot like the 1981 20 Sea Ox my father owned.

[steplift20]

I know bayliner has a bad name but i dont knowwhy? they all do the same thing
take for instance i saw a bayliner sinking by the rip off sandyhook and it was floating at the gunalls with three persons on board

[spareparts]

sinking is a performace issue most boats are equal on. Wait for the "Whaler Brigade" to come along on that comment

[Seacrets]

Bayliner has/had plants in Florida and Georgia. Sold alot of equipment to them. Some of their equipment ended up in the Whaler plant in Edgewater, Fl. If you search bayliner/robalo there used to be 14 plants in 8 states. Bayliner manufactured under bayliner/trophy/robalo/maxum.

[spareparts]

that was after brunswick had aquired Robalo(around 1999), which didn't last too long as they were sold to the Chapparell boat group sometime around 04, seemed like a good boat, far better hull design that the older ones( the hull looked identical to the Sea Ray lagunas), but they wern't built no where as good as the old ones

[Seacrets]

Brunswick acquired Robalo in 1991 (they were in financial trouble) and manufactured their line in Tallahassee, Fl. Chaparrel bought Robalo in 2001. Chaparrel and Robalo are now part of the Marine Products Group which is owned by the Rollins Family (pest control, it might be Orkin). I owned a 24 Laguna and they were different hulls. My Laguna was manufactured in the Sea Ray plant in Merritt Island, Fl. I got the last flush deck they built (1997). The 24 hull was the same from about 1988. I also owned a 244 Chaparrel (1981). God, I'm really old.

[bradford]

There is a guy in Thunderbolt that will custom make you one.
Friend of mine had one made for his Key West.
Trying to remember, best I can tell, it was Boykin Marine.

Eddie Boykin 912-232-1399

2100 Downing Ave
Thunderbolt Ga 31404
www.boykinmarine.com (http://www.boykinmarine.com)

[tsubaki]

I could remember the location but not the name.
Had to look on Google Earth and reverse track via the street and then the phone book and hope that was him.
I'll stick it in "Links".
Didn't see his top on the website but this is the cooler bracket they made for his Key West.
http://www.boykinmarine.com/images/large/otherproducts/100_0588.jpg
I really like this idea.
http://www.boykinmarine.com/images/radar%20arches/radar_arch2_l.jpg

[spareparts]

Seacrets, I had no idea that Brunswick had owned Rabolo that long, couldn't figure out why they dropped them, didn't seem to bad of a boat. One of the dry stacks here localy was a dealer for Rabalo, they had an 18 and someting in the 20 ft range on the rack right beside an 18 Laguna and a 21 Laguna, I didn't pull a tape on them or anything, but you couldn't tell the hulls apart looking from underneath. I think the stack did that intentionally to imply they were just as good as the Lagunas( they were trying to sell Rabalos after all), I don't believe they were built anywhere near the lagunas quality, but still a decent boat for the money

[fishingwithblue]

I could remember the location but not the name.
Had to look on Google Earth and reverse track via the street and then the phone book and hope that was him.
I'll stick it in "Links".
Didn't see his top on the website but this is the cooler bracket they made for his Key West.

Awsome idea, could put a bait tank in there as well......I really like that top on the Whaler.....thanks!
http://www.boykinmarine.com/images/large/otherproducts/100_0588.jpg
I really like this idea.

http://www.boykinmarine.com/images/radar%20arches/radar_arch2_l.jpg

Awsome...you could put a bait tank in that mount too.