I probably have as much if not more time in an Almar then anyone here, all I can say is, AWESOME boats, I run them hard 10 hrs a day for 90-100 days every summer in conditions from mill pond to 6-8 ft seas, they take alot of abuse and just keep going, there are only a handful of glass boats that I would put to this kind of test and expect them to pass, Bayliner (new or old) is not 1 of them.