<br />Isn't strat the grand pubah of the batwhiners owners club?
<br /><br />Bondo say the hulls cheap too but thats his opinion. I like it and measured it numerous spots the gel coat and the fiberglass. Its thick enough for me.<br /><br />Like I said keep bashing them so I can get another cheap 1.Actually Kia's are the Kia's of the car world. Bayliners would be the Kia's of the boat world
<br /><br />I'm new to this whole thing but I can say one thing... I have never had anyone sneer at me for owning a Kia (and I have owned one.) But I do feel like some people on this forum sneer at those who have a Bayliner.<br /><br />One last thought to all the people posting replies rolling their eyes and complaining about how these threads never die should remember that their post also bumped the thread to the top. *BUMP*Well I'm saying the hulls are cheap too,and its not just an opinioun. I have seen many bayliners, mostley older ones in the 14-22 foot range with flexing hulls and rotted floors, including my uncles 1985 20' Maxum , which is the same hull as a bayliner, with bigger engine and better options, but the company and quality is the same. The hull will flex in rough conditions, stringers and rotted to the point where the center windsheald won't close anymore.
Isn't that the way it should be? If someone buys a boat and has problems with it then we should support them not the manufacturer. If the boat makers understand this then they will be more likely to make a better product. I would love it if a boat manufacturer was concerned that I could start a propaganda war if they sold me a piece of junk.<br /><br />What would happen if Ford came out with another Pinto? Sometimes a brand just needs to die.<br /><br />How many of the people that had problems with their boats were taken care of by the manufacturer? It's impossible to know but I think that there were many that weren't. Is their money less important than the bilgeliner name? Bedliners didn't get the reputation on a whim they earned it.<br /><br />If you had a boat and it gave you a lot of trouble would you keep it in a nice dry location? Heck no, you would put it out in the backyard and forget about it. Then 20 years later some kid (young or old)would come by and say "I can fix that old boat up"<br /><br />The Japanese figured this out in the 70's.
No that's not the way it should be.<br /><br />Some things DO ACTUALLY CHANGE. Living in the past can lead to ones missing out on a good thing, sometimes.<br /><br />Bayliner would not be the worlds largest single boat manufacturer if they consistantly produced an inferior product. I'll agree that some of the older stuff was marginal. You got what you paid for. And, you still do, to some extent. <br /><br />There are plenty of boats, with so called good names that are no better, or worse, than a Bayliner.<br /><br />There are plenty of so called "high line" boats out there with rotted stringers and floors too. I've fixed more than my share.<br /><br />BTW, what was wrong with the Pinto? A pretty serviceable car, IMHO. A heck of allot better and safer than a Vega. So what else, that size could withstand a 60 mph+ rear end collision from a full size Impala. NOTHING. That's why almost every small car, of that era had recalls to attach components so that the fuel tanks wouldn't leak. Vegas, Chevettes, Toyotas, Datsuns, you name it.<br /><br />Technology rolls forward. Sometimes we learn from past experiences. Ones experience with a Model T no way relates to a product (any automotive) built today.<br /><br />But, as I say, again.<br /><br />It takes a ton of fact to change an ounce of perception.
Welp...glad you told me about that. Seems like Bayliners are as bad as Grady Whites having transoms and stringers rotting out, Parkers with the decks rotting out, older Mako's with decks and stringers rotting out and on and on and on. Yup...they're all on the same list. Maybe we should all just give up the boating altogether.
