I laughed my azz off reading this post.
Total bummer for you though.



Uncle Dave

Sounds like the $hit I went through with my 1997 Pontiac grand pix..... Fortunately lemon laws apply to cars :lolhit:

I seriously doubt that it was a Checkmate. There are plenty of 100+mph Checkmates out there and they are solid as can be.

+1

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Super Hawaii

The worst boat
 

I've owned dozens of boats and never had any problems with how they werebuilt until the Mystics-both have fallen apart and have serious bonding issues.

Ding, ding, ding. Can't see this one being topped.

I owned it 2 seasons. Total running time of 119 hrs from new.
It blew 13 drives. I think it spent more time at OMC than with me.
The seat bases pulled out of the floor 3 times and the seat swivel brackets broke 5 or 6 times each.
Cabin doors and frame flew out of the boat and sank in Lake Ontario. Oh ya, and so did the engine hatch.
Cockpit floor lifted from the stringers.
Dash flexed up and down so bad it cracked the windshield on the passengers side.
Swim platform flew off on the highway one day.
Steering rack broke free from the dash.
Radio caught fire. Actual flames came out of the tape slot.
Every screwed part of the boat came lose, repeatedly.
I think I replaced every screw in the boat with the next size up and then epoxy, toothpicks and the next size up.


I traded it for my 1990 Power Play and the dealer called me a week later to ask about the repair to the port stringer. I said no repairs that I knew of. He then told me the motor mount ripped out of the stringer with a 18" long piece of stringer still bolted to it.

Great looking boat but it literally fell apart as it went.


And just for ****sandgiggles, I was turning left one day with it behind the truck on my way back from one of its multiple warranty visits when one of the trailer axles sheered off sending a wheel, tire, brake drum and axle chunk careening into the door of a parked cop car.

I worked at a dealer in the late '80's and worked on a customers Stingray or him. We tried to sell him a new Checkmate but didn't have the coin. He found a '89 (I think) 22 or 23SX or similar.
Bought from a local dealer who was known for getting factory, back door boats.
They pop riveted the deck to the hull over an inch an a half off from side to side! You could stand in front of it and see it plain as day.
Customer bought boat w/understanding it had a 350 Mag in it. I got to inform him that it in fact had a standard 350/260 in it! Our shop got pulled into the pissing match that ensued even though there wasn't much to argue about.
Owner ended up accepting a $1500. ( as I recall) credit from dealer to update his boat for him :cartman:

While at same dealer we had a friend of owner bring in a 22/23' Mark Twain cuddy w/loose swim platform bolts. It was mounted w/lags into transom. Problem was, they went through the 1/4" layer of glass where they're were no backing plates!

IMO, the late '80's were the worst. Begging of the era of company buy outs by investment corporations run by bean counters that knew nothing of boats.
I remember one horror story of a well know production builder (can't remember who but maybe Mark Twain) that had an issue w/the hull on a 25' cruiser. The boats owner got Boat US to help him fight the factories plans of sending a new hull to his local dealer to have them strip his defective boat and have deck and everything else installed into new hull :lolhit::helmet::thankyouthankyou:
Was sad seeing some of those new owners taking it on the chin in the era.

Regal?

Just a FYI those eyes are not for lifting the boat. True lifting eyes are strapped to the stringers and you'd never strap over a protruding surface like a swim platform. But yea . . . the CC is a POS anyway :D

+1 of the Profile as well. Holy cow those are poorly built.