Re: 2014 Bowriders - Four Winns H190 vs. Chaparral 19 H20 Sport vs. Monterey 196 MS
Ha Ha, Chap only cut down to the competition small bowrider level of quality with the H2o series. Just kidding but really I think in actuality other boats finally brought their quality way up since the early 2000's. Someone mentioned Larson and Larson for years was mid level at best with the rest of the mass produced VEC boats. Being in MN you see them all over the place. Now they've really made strides along with many other builders. Back when I bought my Chap, the reason I selected that particular brand was because nobody in the small bowrider segment were building them as well rounded given Cobalt exited the small market in 2002. All the other 'everyman' brands as is all we have here in MN had some deficiency or another. You could watch as the model years went by when each builder corrected those deficiencies. Now It's hard to buy a bad, new small bowrider. I discern small bowriders from their larger bretheren because you can have a large xyz brand boat in the mid 2000's that was excellent but their smaller sized bowrider wasn't. Some builders gave you a Toyota if it was under 20 feet and a Lexus if it was over 21 feet and some gave you a Lexus no matter which model you bought. Sea Ray is a prime example of this when they really started producing junk small boats given their price point in the early/mid 2000's but their large boats were excellent. If I didn't have two dozen friends with Sea Rays that I line up with at the sand bar I might not be aware of the differences.
As I understand the EPA regulations...Carbs are indeed no longer built where I/O's are concerned and what you see are simply old stock of new engines being used up. I think there were some caveats but don't recall them however.
Ha Ha, Chap only cut down to the competition small bowrider level of quality with the H2o series. Just kidding but really I think in actuality other boats finally brought their quality way up since the early 2000's. Someone mentioned Larson and Larson for years was mid level at best with the rest of the mass produced VEC boats. Being in MN you see them all over the place. Now they've really made strides along with many other builders. Back when I bought my Chap, the reason I selected that particular brand was because nobody in the small bowrider segment were building them as well rounded given Cobalt exited the small market in 2002. All the other 'everyman' brands as is all we have here in MN had some deficiency or another. You could watch as the model years went by when each builder corrected those deficiencies. Now It's hard to buy a bad, new small bowrider. I discern small bowriders from their larger bretheren because you can have a large xyz brand boat in the mid 2000's that was excellent but their smaller sized bowrider wasn't. Some builders gave you a Toyota if it was under 20 feet and a Lexus if it was over 21 feet and some gave you a Lexus no matter which model you bought. Sea Ray is a prime example of this when they really started producing junk small boats given their price point in the early/mid 2000's but their large boats were excellent. If I didn't have two dozen friends with Sea Rays that I line up with at the sand bar I might not be aware of the differences.
As I understand the EPA regulations...Carbs are indeed no longer built where I/O's are concerned and what you see are simply old stock of new engines being used up. I think there were some caveats but don't recall them however.
