BAYLINER BASHERS..
I checked your website. Here's a clue as to why the boat hasn't fallen
apart:
"This motor yacht has been in fresh water since 1984."
ROFLAMO.
That's about the silliest bash I've ever heard.
The kindest thing you can do for a boat with a wooden heart, (like an older
Bayliner
and dozens of other brands), is to keep it in salt water.
Salt water retards wood rot. Fresh water promotes it. Keep the rain off a boat
moored in sal****er, (good luck with that here 'bouts), and wood rot is not a
major problem. Back when they built planked commercial boats up this way,
they'd cut bungs into the planks below the waterline, pack them with salt, and
then seal the bung hole. A lot of the old timers still throw
rocksalt into the bilge of a wooden boat.
Furthermore, if you want to see hundreds of older Bayliners "miraculously
surviving" a sal****er experience, come to the Pacific NW. They're everywhere.
In fact, if you see a 25 year old FRP boat up here it's almost always a
Bayliner, a Uniflite, a Tollycraft, a Sea Ray, or a Glas-Ply. Yes, there are
many other brands represented among the older boats, but if you gave me a buck
for every mass-pro boat of that age from the group I listed and I gave you a
buck for every boat *not*, I'd be dollars ahead by the end of the day. :-)
"Sal****er will make a Bayliner fall apart."
yep. probably just dissolve right out from under ya.
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