I appreciate the kind words. I am trying to make this an easy buy for anyone. I have bought things like this over the phone and I know how stressful it can be; who wants to buy junk. The way I look it is that BassCat has a lift time warranty of the hull… and the Merc has warranty for quite sometime… so no matter what I tell you, with 65 hours even… you are as close to a new boat as you will ever get without the new boat price.