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What a splendid day.
I got a chance to see a very interesting new boat. By lucky coincidence, (certainly not at Sea Ray's request), I'll be one of the first boating writers to review the 2005 Sea Ray 500. I got to take hull #2 out for a run today, and the boat is so new that the electronics were still being installed. We had to do timed runs on a measured mile to calculate speed, (GPS not commissioned yet). This boat is sensational. They obviously just told the deisgner to throw away the rule book. Sometimes that results in a really screwed up boat, but the 500 is spectacular. It looks impressive, and runs flawlessly. I forgot to check to see if the boat even comes with trim tabs, it stayed almost dead level while achieving a quick plane. There are a lot of builders still turning out the last boats of the 20th Century. The new Sea Ray will probably be considered among the very first truly 21st Century boats. Lots of impressive stuff. (Should be, at $1.15mm). I'm really glad the price of this boat is up in the seven-figure category. That's so far beyond my practical reach that I won't even bother ruminating about the financial adjustments (read "miracle") it would take to afford such a craft. The boat is so new that I'm told it isn't even on the Sea Ray website yet. I shot two rolls of film and took copious notes on my recorder. Unfortunately, my recorder went swimming as we were coming in for a landing, but just the act of speaking the information into the recorder coupled with the photos will allow me to reconstruct the notes. Anybody who would like a "sneak peek" at the new 50-foot Sea Ray, send me an e-mail and I'll shoot you a zip file of photos. I may even strap on the asbestos underware and spam the NG with my fully developed observations and opinions when the rough draft is done. :-) |
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