I'm not a Bayliner fan and have never owned one....but I can say that
docked
behind me in my marina there is a 25 Bayliner...probably around
an 84/85
model year. The owner fishes a lot and is now on his third
engine...he plum
wore out the first two...they each had around 2000
hours on them.
I know
he's not complaining about "value".
Jay

I started with a 15' then an 18'
and then a 245 over about 25 years.  I
knew
I was buying a high production,
low cost boat.  The upside was that we
could
afford to be on the water at a
time when putting kids through school,
buying
houses etc. was sucking most
of the money out of the pot.  I never had a

mechanical problem, they were
reliable.  I never had a leak I couldn't
stop.
They all did the job they
were built to do and when it came to sell
them
they held their value well
because I cared for the boat.  If you are a
minimalist boater, they are a
good buy in my estimation.  I don't own
one
now, they don't build slow
roomy trawlers that use 2 gph at full
throttle
but I would guess they soon
will.

Tom

Jay Leonard
(860) 945-5456
1-800-775-2690  ext 5456
FAX (860) 945-5403
jay.leonard@timken.com

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my very first boat was a new 1985  bayliner 2550.  i lived on  St Barths
back then, bought the boat here in
Miami and shipped it over.  Kept it there for 10 years before shipping it
back to miami when i moved here.

those of you who've been to the islands, know that with the trade winds,
it's usually 4 to 5 footers as soon as you poke your nose out of the leeward
sides...  i used to take that boat fishing, 10 or 15 miles offshore, never
had an issue.  kept in saltwater year round...  no blister, no cracking,
nothing...  After 12 years, I finally had to replace the trusty volvo raw
water cooled V8...  problems were minimal// leaky windows, but that's not a
bayliner exclusive now is it?  and yes, they sold the boat with Zamac rail
fittings which turned into dust after 2 years.. but replacing that with SS
was a few hundred bucks...

like every other manufacturer, bayliner had some bad boat and some bad
years.  but overall they make some decent boats, certainly no worst than
others...

and jerks come at the wheel of just about anything that floats, from
Bayliner to Sea Ray, trwalers to sportfish, sail or power even!

pascal
miami, fl
1970 hatteras 53MY