Sea Ray 260 Sundeck Boats For Sale

The Sea Ray 260 Sundeck is a deck-style runabout built around open seating and shallow-water lounging, rated to carry 12 people for day trips to a sandbar, runs across the bay, or a sunset cruise. It arrived in 2007 as the successor to the long-running Sea Ray Sundeck 240, a 26-foot-4-inch model produced from 1999 through 2008, and was fully redesigned for the 2010-2011 run. Compared with the earlier 240, the redesigned Sea Ray Sundeck 260 carries taller hull sides and a deeper bow, giving more freeboard in the cockpit so passengers sit lower and feel more secure. Anyone shopping a Sea Ray 260 Sundeck for sale is looking at a 26-foot-6-inch boat with an 8-foot-6-inch beam and a dry weight of 4,960 pounds.

Power comes through a MerCruiser sterndrive on a Bravo 3 dual-prop outdrive with trim tabs. The standard engine is the 350 Mag MPI rated at 300 horsepower; later boats used the 6.2-liter MerCruiser at 300 to 320 horsepower, and an available upgrade is the 496 Mag at 375 horsepower. On the 300-horsepower 350 Mag, the boat planes in about 4 seconds, reaches 30 mph in 7.5 seconds, and tops out at 43.4 mph. The 21-degree deadrise hull with lifting strakes and reverse chines shows very little bow rise on plane, holds steerage down to roughly 13 mph, and corners cleanly for a boat this size, which helps when slowing in chop on a big lake.

The helm uses digital throttle and shift, so the engine is controlled by wire rather than mechanical cables for smoother shifting. The dash carries SmartCraft instrumentation, Smart Tow speed control, a Garmin GPS 541s, trim-tab controls, and a push-button start, set under airplane-style bezels and a deep visor that cuts gauge glare at night. Both helm seats include flip-up bolsters, and a stereo remote sits at the dash with a second remote at the transom. The engine compartment opens on a single lever with gas-assist struts, and the 496-equipped boats add closed cooling, Captain's Call exhaust, a fire-suppression system, and dual batteries on a switch.

The cockpit layout puts a wet bar with freshwater, a sink, the stereo head unit with MP3 input, a cooler, and a trash-can compartment to port, plus a starboard walkthrough with a built-in cooler in the step. In-floor storage includes a lockable locker sized for wakeboards and skis. The extended swim platform hides the swim ladder under a cover and blocks access to the props, with a freshwater washdown, transom shower, a ski tow bar, and a kid-and-critter door at the rear. Tandem stainless-steel Bimini tops zip together to shade the full cockpit, and an optional camper enclosure with Eisenglass and screens lets you close in the cockpit to overnight aboard.

The bow is a standout of the 260 Sundeck, with flip-up armrests, wide-backed lounge seats on both sides, hinged seat bases with filler cushions to fill the walkthrough, an in-floor cooler, two floor lockers, and a four-rung bow boarding ladder over the anchor locker for beaching. The head compartment is generously sized with a pump-out porta-potti, sink, mirror, opening port with screen, and storage. Build details that hold up well include resin-transfer-molded hatch lids, full piano hinges through-bolted with washers and lock nuts, stainless latches, a thick tempered-glass windshield frame, and a fiberglass liner with injected foam between hull and floor for a quieter ride. When evaluating a Sea Ray 260 Sundeck for sale by owner, check the engine-hatch cushion, which sits over the motor and tends to crack from heat, and expect light scuffs or peeling hull graphics that buff out or are commonly removed.