Project Description
The VR boats represent, in some way, a strategic throwback to the 1980s – despite appearing built in, get close to the boat and you will notice a vertical seam at the junction of the swim platform and the transom. The swim platform is bolted on. And that allows Bayliner to say that yes, the VR5 really is a full 18 feet of running surface, interior space, and utilization. LOA is 20 feet overall for the VR5. The VR6 is 22 feet LOA, but has a 20 foot running surface. This means that competitors like the Chaparral 18 H2O Sport will fit, in its entirety, within the outline of the VR5.
The payoff here is the VR5 does not feel like an 18 foot boat. It reads like a smaller 20 foot boat. Both boats have much higher freeboard and 6 more inches of beam versus their predecessors. The upshot of all of this is simple: The VR5 is absolutely cavernous inside, and the VR6 feels like a football field. There’s really nothing else on the market that comes close to the comfort and space that these boats offer.
