"rgnmstr" wrote:

That's different! So how do you know all this stuff
about
Stingray?

I used to own a Merit 22 and have always been a fan of
Merits and MORC
boats. When Merit introduced the 28 and one came to the
bay I
casually followed it's racing career. The original owner
took it to
the MORC Internationals a few times and had a top finish
of 2nd place.
The sad thing is that Merit went out of business after
only producing a
couple of the 28s. Up until that time the company had
been very
successful producing 1150 25 footers and almost 700 22
footers over the
course of a few years. Rumor was ... the owner of Merit
Boats had a
personal problem and spent all the profits.

I asked Bob about it last night. He said they'd built the
original deck with a bunch of rule cheater stuff so the boat
was illegal right from the start, thus the Santana deck.

Seahag