Owners of Wellcraft’s Coastal series gave their cockpits and decks decent scores. And 83% said they’d buy another Wellcraft. A 252 Coastal is pictured above.

The popularity of surveys and polls sits right up there these days with reality-based TV shows and Internet porn. Americans have never had a chance to be heard in so many various walks of life. You can vote on everything from whether the US should have invaded Iraq to whether the Boston Red Sox should have left Pedro Martinez in last year’s decisive pennant game against the Yankees.

We like polls and surveys, too. Powerboat Reports for more than 12 years has been asking its readers to tell us how they like their boats. We’ve published reader surveys for Sea Ray, Boston Whaler, Bayliner, Four Winns and Grady-White boats over the…