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Big 270 or little 270? pre-2009 270 or buy new?

#21 User is offline   Blitzn 

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Posted 02 August 2010 - 11:42 AM

View Postkrmartonik, on 01 August 2010 - 06:38 PM, said:

I'm sure you've seen the 2007 276 ssx at seattlewatersports. That is an awesome boat with the 525. I'm sure the price will keep coming down.Although I am a cuddy cabin guy so the 255 and 275 are my favs.

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Nice engine....
Although I am wondering why they call it the 525, when is is really a 502? It doesn't make 525hp either according to the Merc website either.
Really sharp looking engine though.....
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Posted 02 August 2010 - 04:09 PM

View PostBlitzn, on 21 July 2010 - 07:51 AM, said:

Okay, so we've met with the dealers, walked around the boats, looked at the prices, and have narrowed it down to the trailerable cruisers called the 250/270.
For the same price - I can get a 2009 270 (the BIG 270) or a 2010 270 (the old 250).

Does anyone have any imput on these? The old 270 seems to have more standard equipment - and the fiberglass liner is nice - but the galley looks cheap with the fiberglass in comparison to the 250 (little 270) wood galley.

What is anyone's experience on these?

Use will be on big water of Lake Huron and Thunder Bay and such - maybe making some longer distance cruises. But we also want sufficient power to tube and play with. Do some diving, etc.

Why did Chaparral stop making the (big) 270?

Thanks!
-Dennis

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Twin Volvo 270 hp duoprops
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Posted 02 August 2010 - 08:29 PM

So tanker, what are you trying to say?Posted Image
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Twenty years from now you will be more disppointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
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