On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:02:36 GMT, "stevefrench"
wrote:

Having said that, it's still a 25 year old boat with all the attendant
potential that incurs for repairs - meaning that there is more
negative potential with a boat that old than positive.

Our local lake is overrun with fifty year old aluminum fishing boats,
none of which have ever needed any maintainance, let alone repairs.
A couple of the neighbors have Rebel sailboats, about the first of the
fiberglass boats, dating from the forties. Very heavy, they are.

Casady