Al, I think this sounds like another religious debate. I agree with you. My inflatable went poof last year. I was hoping to find a decent used 11' Whaler. That's about the largest I could comfortably carry on Annie Sez Too. Couldn't find one, so I went with an Avon RIB. I hope to get a reasonable service life out of it. I see a lot of older ones out there. Walt Konieczko Annie Sez Too 34 Marine Trader

At 04:26 AM 4/26/00 -0700, you wrote: >Al, > I think this sounds like another religious debate. I agree with you. My >inflatable went poof last year. I was hoping to find a decent used 11' >Whaler. That's about the largest I could comfortably carry on Annie Sez Too. >Couldn't find one, so I went with an Avon RIB. I hope to get a reasonable >service life out of it. I see a lot of older ones out there. > >Walt Konieczko >Annie Sez Too 34 Marine Trader >======================================================= I do this to get a little action on the list and give some listee's some thing new to talk about and it puts some mail in our boxes. I think you made a wise choice going for an Avon. I think it's about the best of 'em. Lets hope no POOFS for a long time. But we know one day it will happen again. . Captain Al Pilvinis "M/V Driftwood"--Prairie 47 2630 N.E. 41st Street Lighthouse Point, Fl 33064-8064 Voice 954-941-2556 Fax 954 788-2666 Email - CaptainAl@Juno.com Website http://home.earthlink.net/~yourcaptain

Annieseztoo@email.msn.com writes: > I went with an Avon RIB. I hope to get a reasonable >service life out of it. I see a lot of older ones out there. Had a twenty year old Avon Redcrest. No leaks, no patches but it looked ugly (badly weathered), so I bought a new Bombard. I don't expect to get the same service as I did with the Avon though. Best of luck with yours - good choice.