It definitely gets a few looks from people who don't know lol

after a day of boating on lake michigan my boat was sometimes cleaner than when I put it in... down in ft myers it's acid water!!! I drive 20 miles away just to dip it in the river to clean off the salt

Fresh water is more corrosive then fresh water now? It's getting good around here now. I've never seen a boat for sale being advertised as salt water boat for good reason. My boat spent its first couple years in salt and fresh water after that. The boat is now 11 years old, It's taken me 2 years to fix all the damage done by salt the first couple years of its life. Rusty motor mounts, bolts, paint bubbling, corrosion on stainless and alluminum. A lot of this stuff many people might not notice or care about but I do and most in fresh water do. Boats that are in salt water 100 percent of the time are worth less, sorry that's the way it is. Unless you maintain it like dean ferry

So if you sold your boat would you advertise "fresh water only?" :evilb:

My buddy bought the OSO TG back in 2008. He put 300 salt water hours on it and it was as clean as the day he bought it. He had a kid go over the boat after every use, even brought the kid on the Bahamas Poker Run so the boat would be cleaned daily. 300 hours on the original CMI headers and XR drives.

Check my last sentence. There's an exception for every rule but if I listed mine i would say fresh water its last 9 years. I think you know the difference and your buddy's boat I'm sure was just as nice but you have to do the dean ferry maintenance, and I don't think everybody does that

By the sounds of it we should rename the forum from offshoreonly to offshorenever...HAHAHAHA

Lakeshoreonly does have a ring to it

Obviously you do not know how big of water there is in the North...you are blind and according to you it is okay for boats to have saturated wood.

And according to you all boats are dry!! HAHAHA pass the pipe!!! When did I say it was ok?. Not sure why I acknowledge your existence given you don't respond to my comments!!! Haha

Go re read my posts clown.

Damm, this thread is slowing down before it has sucked all of the fun out of boating.

Just find the cleanest boat that fits your requirements and better yet if it is freshwater. The important part is to buy what you like and then enjoy using it as much as possible- if it ain't running it's rusting.