Some people have simpler needs.
They want a boat they can hop in, turn the key and go. Additionally for '95, Stingray President Al Fink upgraded the boat with richer padding in the seats, upholstered gunwale panels and a new dash layout. A boat with sharp running strakes can catch and hook, which could prove disastrous. Instead of building strakes onto a hull, he cut them into it and the Z-plane hull, which is now patented, was born. On our test boat, the ZP hull design had a sharp keel that tapered into a 15-degree deadrise at the transom.