Things like this establish reputations, and Sea Ray has never been very good in this regard. Sea Ray's continued insistence on using plastic through hulls and cleap plastic hoses has sunk a lot of their boats. As the cheap plastic ages, it becomes brittle and fractures. Further, these hoses usually aren't supported, a factor which speeds the breakage process. There is no excuse for this nonsense, yet they continue to do it.
Performance is a mixed bag.
With the propeller pockets you get a real shoal draft, but at a big cost in performance. Coming in at around 17,000 lbs. Compare this with the Bertram 38 II Special at 29,000 lbs and you see why there should be no performance problems. Yet the propeller pockets stand her up on hind legs while getting up on plane, which takes far too long, while you can't see where you're going just looking at the fore deck. We typically find Cat 375's or Mercruiser 454's in these boats.