Sea Ray Boats Service & Owner's Manuals PDF

Sea Ray - an American shipyard with a rich tradition and history, building boats, cruisers and yachts in four lines: Sport Boats, Sport Cruisers, Sport Yachts and Yachts began its chronology in 1959.

The American shipyard Sea Ray is a Ford in the construction of ships. It was not without reason that its founder lived in Detroit, the center of the American automotive industry. In 1959, Connie Ray with three friends built the first boat in the garage of a small office, which he bought from the owner. Having lured General Motors talented designer Harley Earl, Ray entrusted him with the design of the first fully fiberglass vessels.

Serial factory production was established after three years.

Like automobile concerns, they produced a new model every year, and by 1969 had a dozen boats in their assortment. In the late 1970s, it was the second largest US shipbuilder, and in 1986 the company was bought for $ 350 million by the Brunswick Boat Group Corporation, the largest producer of pleasure boats in the world, which gave a new impetus to the development of the shipyard.

Three of the company's plants operate in the US state of Florida, two more in Brazil and Poland. Production is fully automated. The interiors of yachts are tested using full-size layouts. In addition, the company has its own laboratory, where components from suppliers are thoroughly tested, the latest materials are examined, and weather conditions are modeled. This makes it possible to understand what will happen to the hull, constantly under the scorching sun or caught in the harsh conditions of the northern seas.

The shipyard offers a wide range of vessels: from small boats with an outboard engine and cabin cruise boats that can be transported on a car trailer to luxury 20-meter yachts of various types: closed cruise yachts with a hardtop, planing yachts with a flybridge, open cruise yachts.