If you should happen to purchase a Penn 113 or 114, be sure to take the sideplate off and thoroughly lube all moving parts, especially the gear lever. For some unknown reason, penn thinks it acceptable to ship and sell these reels 100% dry. I believe that the 113 is technicly defined as a "freshwater reel" though it's in all the marine and saltwater sections of the fishing catalogues. We've used them on charter boats in AK the last couple years, and in my opinion the 113 takes an exorbitant amount of cleaning and greasing to keep it working smoothly, and the aluminum spools have an incredible problem with corrosion from saltwater.
So far, I've found the older penn 114 with a stainless spool to be the most dependable reel for saltwater, if greased regularly.

david