Skool's 250 Sea Ray Project???
 

Well guys i've been working on both the V20 and the 250 Sea Ray but i relized i'm going to have to remove the cap on the Sea Ray. i'm ready but it will have to wait. i'm going to work on the V20 now only then remove the cap and floor insert from the Sea Ray. I'm going to lay pipe front to rear in the ray and raise the floor. make it a fully deck drain boat all but the head and cabin. doesn't that sound like fun?

Question????
 

Why in the "h-e-double-hockey-sticks" would you ever do anything other than sink a searay????? Be careful, it's likely to just crumble to pieces when you start taking it apart.

I hear ya!

:bat:
I have got to stick up for Skool's on this one (he might even send some rules e-mails)

The way he redoes a boat is amazing,
even if it does crumble, he will put it back together
and you will never even know it fell apart.

Just check some of his past projects.

I don't think anybody here would question SKOOLS ability to put a boat together and make it PURDY(and better than new). I believe what BC was trying to pervey was that a SEARAY isn't normally considered worth saving. I have no room to talk as I repowered an identical boat a year and a half ago.

Sea Ray, Bayliner aren't they synonyms. (second 50 cent word today, I better slow down).

I just wanted some Skool's Rules e-mails.

I do not know much about sea rays, but I always thought they were a high quality boat. I guess that is not necessarily the case, huh.

There actual hull construction isn't that bad, one of the better built mass production boats. There interiors on the other hand leave much to be desired, but that is how they were able to sell a decent boat for BAYLINER money.

My brother in law had a sea ray seville. I think the seville was their lesser line, and has been discontinued. That was not a good boat. Floor went soft quite quickly, and interior fit and finish was not very good.

Curious as to other boat lines out there are mostly junk. I know Bayliner has to be right near the top. Rinkers are not very good either. Any others that should be avoided at all cost?

lol hey if it wasn't a fishing version which very few were ever built i'd junk it but when sea ray built the Laguna and the Cuddy Fisherman they were looking out for us fisherman. this boat doesn't have the frills and plush interior it is a rough fishing machine full of live wells and even a built in ice machine. it has 5 live wells and a full transom well to hold your catch. it will take awhile but she will be solid and bloody with fish guts. for the newbies here's the last project i finished

The project
Part 1
http://www.wellcraftv20.com/communit...ght=21+project

Part 2

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/communit...ght=21+project


The slide show afterwards

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/communit...ght=21+project

LOL the Redneck Yacht Club Project aka the $75 boat

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/communit...ght=21+project

The interiors are cheaply constructed. I have personally seen the bottom layers of fiberglass from a brand new 50 footer that was damaged when it fell of a travel lift at another marina here in town, and I can tell you it is only about 50% thicker than the bottom of a V! Now for a 50 footer to have a bottom barely thicker than a 20 footer says something poor about that construction. By the way the 50' was dropped into the water from about 6' when a strap on the travel lift snapped. It totalled the boat. I don't know, maybe they built them stronger back when. The new ones are crap, and usually the only way you can get rid of them is to trade them in for another one at the dealer. My biggest problem is that they are just soooooooo generic. No style.

How 'bout some pics of that Sea Ray yer workin' on...:thre:

We have a '77 24ft Sea Ray. It is a tank. I don't know what it weighs but I know it's all origional, still solid as a rock, and still running strong.

Up through the 80's SEARAY still made a good chopper gun boat. Back in the early 80's to seventies they built tanks that were meant to go through the waves by shear weight and size rather than deep vee. In the 90's is when the pencil pushers steeped in and decided to cut back on quality to make money. SEARAY was never known for there interiors, but they did build some good hulls for awhile.

my Sea Ray has bad stringers too most of the 86 to 94 Sea Rays seem to have bad floors and stringers but always have solid transoms you never hear of a bad transoms in Sea Rays.