Favourite Mate of all time?

[Adam L.]

My Top 5

Exciter I/O
Predictor
Sportfire I/O or OB
Playmate GT
Starflite

HOWEVER I LOVE ALL CHECKMATES. YOUNG OR OLD, BIG OR SMALL.

 

[Adam L.]

I like the 2 classes.
I/O and OB

 

[claupie]

2100 PULSARE
ZT 230
PERSUADER 219
STARFLITE 21
VISION 221

 

[Chris]

How about by decade?

70's, 80's, 90's 00's?

 

[Rob'Z]

But what about the boats that were available in multiple decades? ie: Starflite/Starliner, etc. Would the boat fall into the decade it was introduced?

 

[Boston Predictor]

well is there gonna be some kinda vote or somethin'?

 

[illMATTic]

CHRIS, can you start a poll with all models? i dont know how many there are but...... it would be cool if there was a thread with a running poll.

it could be titled somthing like "checkmate owners top 5 picks"
we could all pick 5 out of the large list of models.

is such a large poll possible?

 

[Chris]

Matt,

With this software, it only does a total of five options.

Maybe to get this thing going again we should just do it by decade. 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's.

What do you think?

 

[Boston Predictor]

Originally posted by Rob'Z:
But what about the boats that were available in multiple decades? ie: Starflite/Starliner, etc. Would the boat fall into the decade it was introduced?

going by decades sounds good but what about what rob said?

 

[Mark]

Hey Chris
When are we going to settle this question? I think "Favorite Mate of all time" means just that. Only one winner! Let's take the top 5 nominations and put it to a vote.

 

[Rob'Z]

Agreed.

 

[Boston Predictor]

Okay I tallied all the votes and the top ranking Checkmates are as follows:

Model Votes

2100 Pulsare........12
Starflite...........12
Predictor...........6
Platymate GT........6
Sportfire...........5
253 Convincor.......4
Vision..............4
Enchanter...........4
Pulse 185...........3
ZT230...............2
Enforcer............2
Convincor 251.......2
Starliner...........2
Trimate.............2
Exciter.............2
Persuader Jet.......2

The following had one vote:
Pulsare 200
Jetmate
Persuader
Strobe 201
Persuader Cat
Pulsare 2400
Spectra 201
Pulse 171/170
Convincor 300
Convincor 281
Starfire
Diplomat
Senator
28' Convincor Twin O/B
1972 MX-15
1970 MX-16
1971 MX-14
1971 MX-15
1970 MX-18

 

[Boston Predictor]

Originally posted by Mark:

"Favorite Mate of all time" means just that. Only one winner! Let's take the top 5 nominations and put it to a vote.

Thats a fine idea

 

[Mark]

Not to muddy the waters, but there are a few that should be considered only one since they are the same hull; Predictor/Enticer, Sportfire/Diplomat, Starflite/Starliner. Then we wouldn't have to seperate out a Pulsare between hard deck and bowrider. I think I would like to see all the Convincors run as one as well as the ZT's. Then I think we have a horse race (pun intended).

 

[Boston Predictor]

I was thinking the same,thats another fine idea. Lets do this

 

[Boston Predictor]

Looks like the top are:

Starflite/Starliner
Pulse/Pulsare
Sportfire/Diplomat
Predictor/Enticer
Convincor

 

[Chris]

Originally posted by Mark:
Hey Chris
When are we going to settle this question? I think "Favorite Mate of all time" means just that. Only one winner! Let's take the top 5 nominations and put it to a vote.

How about doing the decades first and then each decade winner goes into a final poll of five?

So we have a 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's favourite model official poll. Then each winner of it's decade goes into a final poll which will be the winner.

 

[JW]

I wonder if Kip could give us sales numbers on the models? Which I/O and which OB model sold the most over the years?

 

[Mark]

How about doing the decades first and then each decade winner goes into a final poll of five?

So we have a 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's favourite model official poll. Then each winner of it's decade goes into a final poll which will be the winner.

Sounds like a plan!

 

[Rob'Z]

Binging up my point again...what about models that were available in two decades? Do we go by the decade it was introduced?