After reading the article in Powerboat last month, I'm wondering what went wrong?


Thanks

Nothing went wrong, poor choices of words and just not very good journalism is what happened. Everyone has seen the Dragons run and knows that if one is running like they said the test boat was then there HAD to be mitigating circumstances. I don't think there was an attempt to smear or defame, I just think that the article wasn't really thought out before they put it to print. I dont believe a majority of what i read and even less if it is a boating magazine, if you want solid info on a boat you need to see it drive and crawl all over it yourself IMHO.

From the data I've seen this is a pretty fast boat so I would agree there had to have been some kind of mitigating circumstance.

I thought it was strange that the article conveyed how the EXPECTED performance of the boat was not met, but there was no explaination as to why. I would have thought that with a boat that you have test data on, there could only be a couple of things that would logically make it perform so badly and those things would be fairly simple to fix. I'm sure the people at Dragon would have known what the problem could have been (or been able to find it) and I would think that they would be more than willing to make it right, but I don't recall any mention of that.

In short all the article says is that the boat was a slug and the guy saw fit to spend another $200K to make it run the way he wanted.

The whole thing just seemed odd to me.........................

Actually, there was some things that went wrong. They (PBM) just didn't throw anyone under the bus. The article was very straight and to the point actually. The boat didn't meet expectations. No they didn't go into details. The point of the story was that the problem was fixed and the boat runs better than ever.

There was a whole thread on the issue a while back. Craig and Co. stood by their product and made the customer (Eric) very happy. End of story.

And Joe. The problems were with rigging that Dragon had done out of house. The article didn't go into that because again, that was not the point of the article. Hope that helps answer your question. I've been in a Dragon. They are great running boats and ride/look amazing in person.

Yup this is what happened, but what you gotta do is set yourself apart from this informed crowd we are a part of and think of average Joe boater that has the means to purchase a Dragon level powerboat but doesn't know about OSO and doesn't have friends like Tank and Metal Bros to consult on these types of things, these are the people that didn't get the whole story on a botched rig and instead of knowing it was an isolated incident, these albeit few potential customers may now very well have prejudices towards a brand that doesn't deserve the label of "slug" I'm not slammin PBM by any means and I'm not a Dragon cheerleader, I am an advocate of truth though and I think selective journalism is BS, tell the whole story for better or worse, were all big boys and can take care of the rest, agreed?

was Dragon 2 rigged the same? what was the problem?

This is all in reference to Dragon #3.

Fixed for only another 200k

Agreed MBR. I think its a shame how an article like that can prejudice people simply by not stating the facts thereby leaving answers to what are logical questions up to anyones imagination.

I understand what you're saying and agree to a point. There are a lot of politics involved that like it or not are still there. I don't think PBM wanted to focus on blame. They wanted to show that the boat is awesome and runs like a raped ape. Also, I hardly think someone in the market for a Dragon would be un-informed in the least. This isn't exactly an entry level boat. Not to mention (as I've stated several times) if you were seriously considering a Dragon and had questions about Erics and what went wrong, both Craig and Eric are available for comment.