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Old 07-16-2015, 04:07 PM   #14
Marin
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Having owned a GB for the last 17 years I can tell you that they are great boat but they are a hell of a lot of work. Do not think of them as a fiberglass boat. They are a wood boat that's encased in a fiberglass shell. Not the hull, but the house and everything in it.

Unless a person is willing to spend the time necessary to maintain the exterior wood as well as the interior wood plus of course all the other systems common to every brand of boat, I never recommend that a boater, particularly someone new to this kind of boating, buy a Grand Banks.

Having said that, if one has the means to hire out all the boat's maintenance, then it's a great boat all around. But if one is planning to reduce the cost of ownership by doing their own work, they had better be prepared to a lot of their own work, particularly on an older GB.

The great thing about GBs is they were all built to the same build quality by the same company. As opposed to the older (70s, 80s) boats built in Taiwan, many brands of which have quality that's all over the map.
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