Ray wrote:

My second question is that the dealer then went into a long discussion
about me wanting a boat that was in salt water as the salt molecules

Yeah, and you want one that's been run on the rocks or dropped off it's
cradle too because then you'll be sure it doesn't have any hidden weak
spots

I would have sworn that the that 1980 fresh water boat that I bought was
only 10 years old and I can already start to see the effects of the salt
after just two seasons. Even if the dealer is right about the blisters,
just about everything else on the boat is far, far, more important. My boat
has topside blisters due to over application of a heat gun during shrink
wrapping. They looked so terrible when I bought the boat that I was sure I
would have to find the two grand to fix them. Know what? I haven't seen
them once since the boat was in the water. Nobody else has noticed them
either.

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Roger Long