T&T: Diesel or gas

[C. Marin Faure]

 >Fun is what you do with a thing, not the thing
itself. Although you might have pushed the point with a Bayliner :) .

Bayliners are fun to poke fun at, and this list has had numerous  
threads on the "Bayliner versus everything else" topic.  But the fact  
is that in this area, at any rate, if you go cruising you'll see more  
Bayliners out there cruising, too, than any other make.  What a  
person gets out of boating is whatever they want to get out of  
boating, but for my preferences, I'd WAY rather be cruising the San  
Juans, Gulf Islands, Desolation Sound, etc. in a Bayliner than  
sitting in a slip for months or more at a time slaving over  
repairing, restoring, or fixing a classic or unique boat, no matter  
how "cool" it was.  And of the power boaters I know or have met who  
have cruised at least once up the Inside Passage to SE Alaska, the  
most-represented make is Grand Banks.  The second most-represented  
make is Bayliner.  Then there is a big gap and then odds and ends  
like Uniflite, Tollycraft, Victory Tug, Ocean Alexander, and so on.   
I have yet to meet a Nordic Tug owner who has done the Passage but  
I've got to believe there are a bunch of them.  But I sometimes  
wonder if while the people who like to knock Bayliners on the boating  
forums are sitting at their keyboards busily typing their posts, the  
Bayliner owners are out using their boats.  That would be a sort of  
ironic justice, wouldn't it?


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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington