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Nifty Sterndrive Deck Boats: Sea Ray SDX 250 Series

Sea Ray styling and luxury is infused throughout these 25-foot deck boats built for entertaining a large crew for an active day on the water.

A black and white vessel cutting through open waters at sunset.

Sea Ray’s new deck boat is a smaller version of its 27-foot SDX model. Photos courtesy, Sea Ray

Sea Ray’s SDX series of deck boats are built with outboards engine power or a sterndrive configuration that makes for more room on the swim platform. For its 25-foot SDX, there’s also a Surf version integrated with a NextWave surf system that generates repeatable, rideable waves. Both models are built for an active day of boating with family and friends with loads or plush seating, storage, an integrated cooler compartment, and USB charging stations.


Standout Features

  • Spacious layouts accommodate everyone in the versatile cockpit area
  • Top-line technology from Mercury comes standard
  • Starboard compartment designed for storing life jackets, towels, and larger items
White leather seating area featuring a small wooden table on a Sea Ray vessel.

Plush L-shaped bench seating coupled with adjustable seats create wraparound seating for a huge social area in the cockpit. Under-seat deck storage stows coolers, towels, and water toys.Plush L-shaped bench seating coupled with adjustable seats create wraparound seating for a huge social area in the cockpit. Under-seat deck storage stows coolers, towels, and water toys.
U-shaped lounge-style seating at the bow includes an integrated cooler compartment to keep drinks and snacks at hand. The optional Comfort Bundle adds a table and a filler cushion that transforms the spot into a sunpad. The bow can also be enhanced with manual bow sunshade and boarding ladder options.

Seating area near the front of a vessel on the water featuring wrap around seating an a foldable wooden table.

Steering and navigation on a white Sea Ray vessel.

At the Digital Dash helm, the skipper has fingertip control of the 250’s standard 9-inch Simrad NSX® touchscreen display (dual 9-inch displays are standard on the surf variation) featuring a chartplotter with preloaded charts and Mercury Marine SmartCraft Connect for simplified engine monitoring.
Chill out in back with a convertible sunpad with fold-up backrest and a broad swim platform with a concealable ladder (or optional submersible step), plus the transom includes a ski tow eye attachment for watersports.

Brunette female wearing a green bathing suit and sunglasses sitting with legs in the water on the back of a white boat.

Adult male wakeboarding during a sunny day while being pulled by a white and black Sea Ray.

For the Surf version, the SDX 250’s transom is engineered to produce a clean wake while electric surf tabs, Active Trim and three tanks featuring 1,550 pounds of ballast control the height of the wave. Sea Ray’s custom surf interface is powered by Mercury Smart Tow, which offers three preset modes for surfing, wakeboarding, and skiing/tubing.

Main Specs

Length: 
25’2”
Clearance:  10’3”
Hull:  Planning
Max HP: 1,800
Beam: 8’6” 
Draft: 
40˝ (sterndrive down), 29” (up) 
Engine:
300-horsepower Mercury MerCruiser 6.2L MPI ECT 
Price: SDX 250 starts at $133,850, 

SDX 250 Surf starts $176,460

Fuel Capacity: 65 gallons
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Senior Editor, BoatUS Magazine

A journalist by training, BoatUS Magazine Senior Editor Rich Armstrong has worked in TV news, and at several newspapers, then spent 18 years as a top editor at other boating publications. He’s built a stellar reputation in the marine industry as one of the most thorough reporters in our business. At BoatUS Magazine, Rich handles everything from boat and product innovation and late-breaking news, to compelling feature stories, boat reviews, and features on people and places. The New Jersey shore and lakes of lower New York defined Rich's childhood. But when he bought a 21-foot Four Winns deck boat and introduced his young family to the Connecticut River, his love for the world of boats flourished from there.