We bought a 1997 16' Alumaweld Guide this year cause it sat unused after the same owner fished it twice during that time. Ended up getting what was a new boat for about 1/2 the price. Saw it in the tacoma newspaper in November, after looking for about a month at 5-10 other boats up and down I5 from Seattle to Portland (I drive a bit for work). Found a lot of well used and worn boats, and then got lucky on this one. Have now floated the Bogey 5 times this year and it works great, and I suspect our boat will begin to look as worn as the well used models we looked at, but we expected that and thought finding a well maintained used boat was the way to go. If you fish 3 guys a lot, I'd probably look at a bigger boat.