| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
 | Date | Lines | 
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| 345.1 | Look Good to Me!! | USRCV1::FRASCH |  | Sun Apr 23 1989 19:16 | 13 | 
|  |     From what I have heard and seen, they are a class boat!. One of
    the guys who fishes the E.S.L.O. derby with us every year bought
    a new 22' or 24' with a Mercruiser I/O and loves it. He got it south
    of Buffalo, NY near Chattaqua Lake. I went aboard and was impressed
    with the quality. I handled rough water just fine and has a good
    wide beam with lots of room to fish. If I ever go to an aluminum,
    I'll take a long look at Crestliners. I think they are more expensive
    than Starcraft but not sure. I like the idea of an all welded
    hull versus rivets!
    
    Good Luck
    
    Don
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| 345.2 | Fiberglass also | SALEM::GINGRAS |  | Tue Apr 25 1989 09:54 | 8 | 
|  |     I own a 17' Crestliner fittet with a 90hp outboard.  Mine is fiberglas
    which Crestliner also manufactures.  I believe that Crestliner is
    a quality boat and I have found it to be very stable in any kind
    of water.  Thurstons Marina, at the Weirs is a Crestliner dealer
    and also rents out alum. Crestliners in the Summer.  The aluminum
    version MUST be a solid boat when taken out by folks who usually
    are not very skilled in boat handling.
    
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| 345.3 | Welded aluminum = Strong like bull | NRADM::WILSON | It doesn't get any better than this | Thu Apr 27 1989 09:29 | 15 | 
|  | 
    As mentioned in another reply, stop in and see Jeff Thurston at
    Thurston's Marina at Weirs Beach.  Tell him I sent you.  Jeff
    is very big on Crestliners, and seems to really believe in them.
    I bought my first boat, a used Renken from him 6 years ago.  At
    the time he showed me some of his rental fleet of Crestliners which
    he had for sale.  Some of the boats had been in rental service for
    over 10 years.  They had been repowered because the motors just
    plain wore out, (or were bashed against rocks) but the hulls were
    in great shape!
Rick Wilson
    
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| 345.4 | Boat good driver bad | SWAPIT::SCHMUHL |  | Mon May 08 1989 12:02 | 8 | 
|  |     I have a 67 Crestliner 18 ft cabin cruiser which used to carry my
    whole family plus the teen's friends at once. Never had a hull problem
    with it till I lent it to my manager who put the drain plug in the
    self bailing hole in salt water. Anybody wanna buy a hull that needs
    some windshields etc.? The boat was really made well and took the
    ocean as well as fresh water. 
    
    Larry
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