Epic fail? If you consider taking a very good ski boat say the SN196 and slowly turning it into the Ski Natique of today, then yes epic fail. MC has done a superb job in listening to their market and responding with a product that meets and exceeds the ideals and demands of the same. If there were some advice for the president of SN it may be: call your R&D department in and say you and you are fired, the rest of you go and brush off the CP hull and brand it SN. Then sell it well equipped for $80,000 with dial gauges. Allow for optioning it up with whatever the customer wants. Heck you could put a solid gold shift knob on it, and it would still sell for less than $100k
That is my rant