I am new to the forum and have been reading most of the posts. I know this is an older post but felt the need to respond.
For all prospective buyers of Georgie Boy used motorhomes.
We have had 3 Georgie Boy motorhomes.
The first was a 28 foot, 1991 Cruise Master off the dealer?s lot. Well built and we were happy with it for "get-away weekend? camping and the yearly rallies. We had a cracked windshield which GB factory took care of at a cost one third the price of our local auto glass replacement center and to our surprise while at the factory was told that the striping on the outside was from a bad batch and they re-striped the complete motorhome free of charge.
Our second was a 1995, 34 foot Cruise Master which we had ordered with all the features we wanted. Again another great job by the Georgie Boy people. We kept it for 10 years trouble free, went fulltiming in 1999 and traveled 4-6 months a year. Unfortunately, our 2002 caravan trip to the Canadian northwest and Alaska put a lot of strain on a 7 year old well used motor and we started having problems. None of which was the fault of Georgie Boy. (Of course by this time I was more than ready for a coach with slides but hubby was digging his heels in seeing nothing wrong with fulltiming in a 34 foot, no slides, not even a wide body coach.)
Unfortunately, in 1995, Dan George the owner of Georgie Boy sold out to Coachman. Our 1995 Cruise Master was one of the last ones manufactured before Coachman took over. We are now fulltiming in a 2005, 38 foot triple slide Georgie Boy Cruise Master. Just last year we went on our second tour of the factory. What a big difference in attitudes from the upper management to the workers at the factory. Since it was reported in the news articles that Georgie Boy was the third ranked motorhome maker, we were hoping that the Coachman people would continue with the quality that Dan George insisted on. We found out that wasn?t so in our third coach. Little details were overlooked, some the dealer replaced or fixed, some hubby fixed, and a few we will just have to live with.
This will probably be our last motorhome as age will creep up on us and keep us off the road driving a big rig. :'( If, the good Lord willing, we can keep traveling and do want a new coach, I don?t know that it would be another Georgie Boy. When we bought this one our priorities were 1. We had 2 others and where completely happy with them and 2. We loved our Georgie Boy Owners Club. Another mishap with Coachman buying Georgie Boy out is this winter we were informed that the GBOC was no longer functioning and if we wanted to be in a club it would have to be the Coachman Owners Club. What a bummer. We had a lifetime membership in the GBOC and thankfully Coachman honored it.