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2001 Sea Ray 240 Sundeck Photos
2001 Sea Ray 240 Sundeck Test Details
| Category | Bowrider |
| Length | 24ft / 7.32 m |
| Beam | 8ft. 6in. |
| Engine Make | Mercury |
| Fuel Capacity | 245 L |
| Weight | 4,700 lb |
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2001 Sea Ray 240 Sundeck Description
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Never knew why theyre called deck boats, when the point is that they don't have decks!
The original concept described something like a pontoon boats platform mated with a runabouts hull sort of a high-speed party barge.
Sea Rays take on this concept is more conservative and ultimately more practical. The 240 Sundeck is actually a bowrider taken to its logical extreme. Although there is little hint of the pontoon's platform, any deck surfaces that might intrude on the boats interior have been whittled away and the helm console and windshield moved back.
Up front, the bow area is huge, big enough to provide
a full-length lounge seat on either side, a cooler plus a bow access that leads to a swim platform and ladder. Mount the removable table for dockside drinks and conversation or add the filler cushions and create a mammoth sun-pad. Too hot under the sun? Put up the optional Bimini top that covers just the bow area. (Theres a standard equipment Bimini for the main cockpit.) Salty from your swim? Rinse off with the freshwater hand shower.
With a fully equipped helm station, including a swivel bucket that has a racer-style flipover seat bolster, plus a storage compartment taking up the starboard side of the large twin consoles, the port side is free to enclose a
surprisingly spacious head, with a port hole for light and ventilation.
Just behind the captain's seat, the gunnel angles in to encompass a wet bar with another sink and pull-out sprayer. In an L-shape across the beam and up the port side, plushly upholstered seating surrounds the rest of the cockpit. Under it all is an easy-to-care-for fibreglass inner liner. Underfoot is soft Berber-style snaping carpet.
Theres more space beyond the transom, where a small door opens out on to the elongated (28 in./71cm) swim platform and its concealed stainless steel boarding ladder.
Although some deck boats are odd-looking nautical beasts, the Sea Ray 240 Sundeck maintains the appearance of a traditional boat, albeit one with a unique internal blueprint that allows for expansive accommodations.
Many deck boats are also subject to compromises below the waterline. In order to increase the size of the platform or improve at-rest stability, the designers opt for a shallow, wider V-shape for the hull. The result can be a harder ride, indifferent handling, or both. From what's left of the deck down, the Sundeck is all Sea Ray right including the soft-riding 21-degree deadrise. The company has had decades of experience with the V hull, culminating in the vented chine design employed on our 240. At close to 5,000 pounds the boat is heavy and therefore not particularly quick out of the hole. But it rises without any sense of struggle and handles like a dream.
Best of all, this fun-in-the-summer boat exhibits all of the fabled Sea Ray style and quality with fit and finish matched by few other production boat builders. And it's a real boat, not just a party barge
2001 Sea Ray 240 Sundeck Test Specifications
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Test boat engine:
Mercury MerCruiser 7.4 MPI, 310 hp, 7.4-litre (454-cid) V-8 gasoline engine driving twin counter-rotating 27 inch props on a single Bravo Three sterndrive.
Acceleration
mph sec.
0-20 6.6
0-30 10.8
Top speed (GPS)
rpm mph
4,600 51
Cruising speed (GPS)
rpm mph
2,900 30
Sound levels at cruise
helm aft cockpit
84 dbA 85 dbA
Sound levels at top speed
helm aft cockpit
93 dbA 95 db
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