Sea Ray Sundeck Boats For Sale

The Sea Ray Sundeck is a deck boat line built around carrying people, with wraparound bow seating, cockpit lounges and large molded swim platforms across the range. The Sundeck 240 anchored the family for years, in production from 1999 through 2008 and rated for 12 people, before the Sundeck 260 took its place in the lineup with taller hull sides, a deeper bow and more freeboard. Smaller models fill out the search: the Sundeck 220 runs 23.5 feet with an 8.5-foot beam and a 4,370-pound dry weight, rated for 10 people or 1,600 pounds, while the larger boats stretch to 26 feet 6 inches overall. Shoppers cross-shopping the Sundeck 220 vs 240 are choosing mainly on size and capacity, since both share the line's deep-V approach. For anyone searching Sea Ray Sundeck boats for sale, these are sterndrive deck boats apart from the newer outboard model.

Performance comes from a 21-degree deadrise hull that Sea Ray markets as self-planing, so bow rise stays low and visibility from the aft seats holds steady. The Sundeck 270 with a single 300-horsepower Mercury Verado reached a top speed of 47.5 mph at 6,000 rpm while burning 29.8 gph, and its best cruise landed at 3,500 rpm and 27 mph, dropping fuel consumption to 9.4 gph for a range of 168 miles over 6.2 hours. It planes in 4.5 seconds and leans 18 degrees into a turn. The sterndrive Sundeck 260 planes in about 4.2 seconds; its standard engine is a 350 Mag MPI rated at 300 horsepower, with an optional 496 Mag MerCruiser at 375 horsepower, and it carries 65 gallons of fuel. The Sundeck 240 typically ran the 350 Mag MPI MerCruiser at 300 horsepower with only about 3 degrees of bow rise, and the 220 used a 5.0 MPI at 260 horsepower. Bravo 3 counter-rotating dual-prop drives and trim tabs are common across the line.

The helm carries SmartCraft digital instrumentation on the sterndrive models, reporting fuel use and engine alarms, with a single piece of thick tempered glass in the windshield frame. The outboard Sundeck 270 adds a leather-wrapped three-spoke steering wheel, lighted toggle switches, a real horn rather than an electronic buzzer, and double-wide white helm seats with flip-up bolsters; the captain's seat slides and has a molded footrest. Digital throttle and shift on the 240, 260 and 270 replaces mechanical control cables, and the 260 includes push-button start. Captain's Call exhaust and an automatic fire suppression system are standard equipment, and most boats run dual batteries with a switch.

Deck and cockpit layouts emphasize seating and storage. The Sundeck 270 has L-shaped cockpit seating with an available table for dining, opposing convertible seating across, a cockpit sink, and a head in the port console. Bow seating is wraparound with flip-down armrests and accepts a pedestal table, and the boat carries bow and stern reboarding ladders plus freshwater showers at both the bow and transom. A water sports tower is offered as an option, and a key selling point on the sterndrive Sundecks is that you can fit a wakeboard tower while keeping a full cockpit bimini top, so everyone aboard stays shaded while towing. The large swim platforms cover the outdrive and keep swimmers clear of the propellers.

Build quality shows in the hardware: resin transfer molded hatches on full piano hinges, through-bolted with washers and gas-assisted struts, and stainless locking latches. The sterndrive hulls are lined and injected between hull and liner for sound damping. Interiors offer bow filler cushions that convert the bow into a sun pad, an enclosed head with a pump-out toilet, mirror, light and shower, and a wind-block console door. A freshwater-kept Sundeck 240 or 260 with the 496 engine and low hours is the strong used buy; watch for surface scuffs, faded graphics and old registration numbers below the rub rail, which polish out, versus deeper chips needing gelcoat. The Sundeck 270 stands out as the only Verado-powered model in the range, with its outboard mounted so the swim platform stays usable.