All about Sea Ray Boats
Sea Ray Boats are one of the leading manufactures of boats. Having being established in 1959, the company has been in the marine and boat manufacturing industry for over 28 years now and have constantly brought in new technology and state of the art techniques. Sea Ray boats were the first to bring in fiberglass as a material for boats.
Needless to say that after an expertise of decades and being a top player in the industry, Sea Ray became the largest producer of pleasure boats in the world. The factories of Sea Ray are in Tennessee and Florida, in USA. Sea Ray produces powerboats and other adventure boats of various sizes ranging from 17 feet to cruisers and luxury yachts of about 60 feet.
The year 1986 was a landmark in the history of marine products manufacturing industry when Sea Ray joined hands with Brunswick Corporation. In fact, after Brunswick Corporation took over Sea Ray, the tag of the largest manufacturer of marine engines got attached with it. This new setup scaled heights after 1995 and Sea Ray purchased Baja, which was then the largest producer of high performance boats.
Sea Ray is not the largest producer of the marine engines and performance boats only by numbers. It also set world class standards and best industry practices in the marine manufacturing sector. It was the first company to establish and follow protocols specified by the International Organization of Standards. Sea Ray is thus ISO 9002 certified.
Sea Ray has 4 major types of boats in the high performance and adventure category. There are above 40 models in all the above 4 categories. These are:
1. Sport Cruisers
2. Sport boats
3. Sport yachts, and
4. Yachts.
The Sea Ray Sport boats come in a wide range and they offer more features than any other boats in the same category. These have sport boats ranging from 5m to 9m. Some of the most popular models of the sport boats manufactured by Sea Ray in the year 2009 are 175 sport, 205 sport, 230 select, 230 Fission and 290 sundecks.
The Sport cruiser boats manufactured under the Sea Ray banner are one of the best cruisers available. These are made of finest quality material, give you more comfort and pleasure and are elegantly designed. The sport cruisers thus score full marks when it comes to comfort, performance and aesthetic appeal. A new added feature in the sport cruiser boats is the SmartCraft instrument management system. This feature provides data for marine diagnostics and also has an anti glare night light feature.
As mentioned earlier, the Sea Ray Boats score full marks in comfort. This comfort is due to the well designed cockpit which has quite a space for the driver. Apart from the driver comfort, the passengers are also well taken care of by spacious and beautifully designed cabins. At all levels of the design, the Sea Ray boats speak of quality.