Dionysus Feldman wrote:

Bob D. wrote:

I have yet to see anyone offer any significant
empirical data, even significant anectdotal evidence, that any boat of a
given brand name is clearly superior or inferior to another brand name,
when factoring in things like initial cost, and care.

Oh? Try going 30 miles offshore in a Bayliner and a boat of similar
sized designed for ocean use.

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While Catalina Island is only 26nm from the coast of California, I
suggest you look at the number of Bayliner's moored there.

I believe it's been "tried".


I suppose I should qualify my remarks, because there are substantial
differences between the sea state of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
most of the time.

Typically, the Atlantic is a far tougher body of water to boat and fish
in than the Pacific, along most of the United States coastal areas and,
on the Atlantic, out to where the Gulf Stream is (north of Florida, of
course).

Despite the substantial number of Bayliner sales, you rarely see any out
in the Atlantic, outside of sight of shore, and, in fact, I rarely see
any out in the Atlantic, close to shore. A Bayliner sighting in the
Atlantic was an unusual occurence off the shores of NE Florida, where I
spent hundreds and hundreds of hours boating and fishing.


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