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PostPosted: May 21, 2010 7:07 pm    Post subject: Sea Ray's Represent! Reply with quote

Lets see some Sea Rays that you guys made wakeboard boats. Heres mine








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PostPosted: May 21, 2010 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote









Its a 1998 Sea Ray 180. I put my DIY tower from my old boat. Its got 4 alpine type-s speakers in the cans and some stock clarions in the boat. Powered by a crappy wal mart amp but i can hear the music fine while im riding.

I put a 17p high five prop on it, makes hole shots super easy and holds speed amazing. Its great with the small 3.0 engine cause of all the low end torque.

I have 275lbs of sand in the ski locker and a 400 lb ballast bag in the bow walkway. I also keep a 100 lb duffle bag of sand in the boat to adjust weight.

I love the clean graphics, got it completely debadged and i just put the name on the back and the oakley stickers on the side. I named it "My Girl's Toy II" cause my old boat was "My Girl's Toy" and it was a speculation for me to buy the boat that i had to name it that so my fiance would be happy.

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PostPosted: May 22, 2010 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

brichter14, you got that thing to looking good. Good job man.
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PostPosted: May 22, 2010 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks! My next project is to build a swim platform for it out of that recycled plastic boards people use for decking. ill let you guys know how it goes.
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PostPosted: May 24, 2010 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking good. I bet that prop does make a huge difference. We had the 3.0 in our Bayliner and it always struggled.
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PostPosted: May 24, 2010 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah i love it, barely hit the throttle and it pulls us up and planes the boat out a second or 2 later. its great
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PostPosted: May 26, 2010 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Need to see more sea rays in this thread...
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PostPosted: May 30, 2010 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mine:

http://forums.wakeboarder.com/viewtopic.php?t=77623
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PostPosted: May 30, 2010 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

looks nice! wasnt expecting any inboards to pop up
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PostPosted: May 31, 2010 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

got a pic of the wake, finally tuned it in.


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PostPosted: Jun 07, 2010 11:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NICE I WILL TRY TO PUT SOME PICS OF MINE UP SOON
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PostPosted: Jun 15, 2010 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

not a great pic but its what i got for now. our 2004 180 sport we really like the boat
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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2010 8:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

looks nice! what kind of tower is that?
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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2010 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

2004 SEA RAY 180 w/ avenger vortex tower

I cheated, it's on his profile =)

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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2010 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You gonna show yours off browneye?
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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2010 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been meaning to take some new photos of her for this thread, but haven't got around to it. Here's a few of my 2008 SeaRay 205 Sport with factory tower.

The day we picked it up from the dealer.


Had to try out the board rack.



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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2010 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is my 2007 sport 205...bought it brand new and love it!! wish i got to ride it more!!



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PostPosted: Jun 17, 2010 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does anyone know if Sea Ray has ever made an inboard bow rider between 16-25 ft
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PostPosted: Jun 17, 2010 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only one i know of was the Ski Ray ... Bayliner also made the same boat ... Both are good entry level directdrives
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PostPosted: Jun 19, 2010 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just picked up Merc High 5 off craigslist brand new for 260! It is amazing!
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PostPosted: Jun 19, 2010 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know i love my high five, makes all the difference.
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PostPosted: Jun 24, 2010 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did some spending this week, bought some new popup cleats for the back of the boat so the rope doesnt get caught on it anymore. i also bought a light bar from diywake.com and found some nice bullet lights at wal mart to use on it, they light the whole boat up really well. im pretty happy with it. here are some pics






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PostPosted: Jun 24, 2010 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote




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PostPosted: Jul 04, 2010 11:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

they all look nice. brithcer dont your rack have the channel in them to make them straight across on the tower so they are not at such an angle?
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PostPosted: Jul 04, 2010 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

YYa it does, i like the angle that they are at, having tue boards parallel with the boat looks strange imo and at that angle they are easy to take off the rax.
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PostPosted: Jul 05, 2010 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thats cool. your boat really looks nice. i need to get some good pics of mine on here. have fun
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PostPosted: Jul 05, 2010 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks man, im really leaning towards gettin a swim platform from swimplatforms.com, i think that will be the last thing i do but it will be a while, they are quite pricey
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PostPosted: Jul 05, 2010 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

for shure i hope to get one also. it would make things real nice. i tried to make one but it just wasnt up to par. so some day i will buy one
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PostPosted: Jul 11, 2010 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

put a sub in it today, just a 10" sony to off set the high frequencies of the tower speakers, pics!




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PostPosted: Jul 11, 2010 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

brichter14 I know my boats not a blue water, But I stool your swim deck tred . thought I'd share.
Any way you could post a better pic of your light bar set up. Walmart... really?

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PostPosted: Jul 12, 2010 8:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah the bullet lights are from wal mart, like 18 bucks a pair? the bar itself and clamps were from DIYWAKE.com, 147 for the clamps/bar. yeah ill try to take some better pics tonight.

yeah that tread is nice, just nice to have something to push on when puttin the board on.


here is one i didnt upload


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PostPosted: Aug 03, 2010 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

took some pics today after i wash/waxed her.

heres a link to the album

http://s277.photobucket.com/albums/kk43/brichter14/Sea%20Ray/

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PostPosted: Aug 03, 2010 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sweet did you ever fix the problem you had a couple weeks ago?
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PostPosted: Aug 04, 2010 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, i blew the head gasket. That happends when you have 1700lbs of ballast and people in a 3.0

I have an 1100 lb limit now so it doesnt happen again.

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PostPosted: Aug 04, 2010 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1700 plus people ? my sticker say 980 lbs, that thing must sit low. got any pics of it dumped
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