So I know how there are many different price/quality ranges, There are some brands I am curious about though. I know that crownline/searay/regal are the upper echelon and bayliner/tahoe/maxum are the value brands. What about glastron and rinker?
My neighbor down the street has a Regal that sits outside covered with a ripped cheep blue tarp all year long. The floor is half rotten and the engine runs like crap because he never maintains it. Thus, he hardly uses it because nobody will go with him.
Another neighhbor has a Bayliner that is twice as old but he keeps it in the garage, changes the impeller and services the U-joint every few years, etc, etc. His boat never lets him down and the family goes out in it every weekend.
It's not as much as who builds it as who owns it.
My neighbor down the street has a Regal that sits outside covered with a ripped cheep blue tarp all year long. The floor is half rotten and the engine runs like crap because he never maintains it. Thus, he hardly uses it because nobody will go with him.
Another neighhbor has a Bayliner that is twice as old but he keeps it in the garage, changes the impeller and services the U-joint every few years, etc, etc. His boat never lets him down and the family goes out in it every weekend.
It's not as much as who builds it as who owns it.
To a point. All things being equal I would take the Regal and pass on the Bayliner. But as stated. In older boats it is all about the condition which is determined by care and maint.
Nothing is ever equal. The true definition of "quality" is "meeting all of the customer's requirements all of the time".
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Did you ever notice that these types of threads always end up with everyone trying to justify why they bought the boat they did?