"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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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.

Yeah, sure. Sal****er does wonders for aluminum and chromed zinc hardware,
non-tinned wiring, and cheap fabric stitching.

Why do boats kept in fresh water draw such a premium?


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.

You seem to know a lot about bung-holes. Not surprising for a liberal from
the Pacific Northwest. ;-)


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. :-)

As a percentage of boats made vs boats still in use today, I'd put Boston
Whaler at the top of the list over any of the ones you've listed.


"Sal****er will make a Bayliner fall apart."

yep. probably just dissolve right out from under ya.

There's more to a boat than a hull supported by non-marine grade stringers
and a superstructure with plywood bulkheads. You're being intentionally
obtuse here.