Just double checked.

I've only tried one Seagull Excursion dread and an S&P Trek dread, but they were amazing.  They sounded very much like a Martin.  More-so than any other dread I've tried from Godin.  Weird but very cool.

Why do you say that?  Were the strings dead or something?

That's a shame.  The Excursions/Treks in my humble opinion are one of Godin's best kept secrets.  I've played all the sizes except the CH.  All of them sound amazing.  The Excursion/Trek dreads especially.  They actually sound better and more "Martin-like" than even the highest end models.  Not sure how they accomplish that. 

I "think" it's because ( not sure if I'm recalling this correctly or not ) only the Excursions/Treks get a relief route on the sound board ( a technique ironically that's usually only found on higher end brands like Taylor etc. ) and a different kind of inner corner binding because they wanted to save some money and not put binding on the outside.  So they did that inner stuff to help it be stronger.  The result however, again, in my humble opinion, made them end up sounding better than almost all of the models above them.

The only reason I don't have one is the nut width ( none of them come with the 1.8" ) and the cheap pickups they come with ( which still ain't all that bad ).  Now that I'm getting used to the thinner nut width again though, if I had to get a guitar quick and cheap cuz all mine were burnt in a fire or something, I'd grab an Excursion in a heartbeat and maybe just stick a decent aftermarket pickup in it.  Great guitars.