Hey MacoJoe!

[fishingwithblue]

Originally Posted by 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!!

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!

[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]

Originally Posted by tsubaki

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

[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.

I really like this idea.