Posted: April 25 2010 at 06:51 | IP Logged

Own a 2002 Rinker 270, boat is very solid, Rinker takes some shortcuts with things but all in all a decent boat.  Use it in salt water mostly on South Shore of Long Island NY.  Have Fresh water cooling engine, had to onstall South Bay strainer intake for raw cooling water due to eel grass fouling my fresh water cooling heat exchanger.  Had a few Mercruiser Problems but nothing major related to the Rinker Boat.  In 2004 they redesigned the Hull giving the engine compartment an extea foot or so of length.  This gives more room in the engine compartment, longer riding hull, and they raised the swim platform about 10 inches.  My swim platform is very close to the water and if i'm anchored ar fiskhing in deacent chop the platform constantly slaps the water and gets washed.