we bought our boat new in 1998.it's a 17' bow rider with a evenrude 90 o.b.we upgraded the trailer to a galvy one. the painted trailer looked good,but we thought the galvy would last longer.when we shopped around for a NEW boat it came down to $$$. the choices for us (remember $) was either a bayliner or sunbird.having heard not good things about bayliner, and the fact that omc owned sunbird, we made a good choice. we are very happy with this boat. it now has about 300 hrs.my kids and neices all learned to ski and tube on this boat.that it for now. thanks i boat for this forum