shadow3g,<br />For some reason I couldn't reply to your thread so I copied the subject header and reposted it. DeeJayCee commented Bayliners were good boats and I would agree, at least as far as the 1990 one I rebuilt the interior of after an alcohol stove explosion. But that was then and boats aren't made the same now. A 1975 Searay may have been "a solid boat", but the statement "they don't make them like that anymore" is what you should be concerned with. Here's a blurb from a surveyors site on hurricane damaged boats titled "Are They Fiberglass Boats Anymore?"..."One good example is a Sea Ray where the hull side had ONE layer of woven roving, two thin layers of chopped strand mat, and all the rest of the laminate was some kind of brittle putty." Here's the site and if you look at the top of the page, there is more info to be had. Sam <br /> http://www.yachtsurvey.com/Fiberglass_Boats.htm
