It's gonna take a 3 to 1 tin to glass ratio to keep the total number to toads relative! LOL See, you guys shoot holes in your own theories! Marke was a devoted TV-18 owner, THEN he fishes with me in glass. WHAT happened next you ask???? Well dontcha know, Marke wanted a 901....and they don't make those in tin fellas! Now sure he is accessorizing his TV-18, but you can put all the perfume on a pig you want....it's still a pig! LOL It will never evolve into a glass boat! Sure it does the job, but then, so does a moto scooter. But real men run 1200 or 1300 cc Harley's with straight pipes and teardrop tanks! A Mazda pickup (I hate to even use those words together in a sentence) can "haul"....well a couch, or A chair, or A bike, but a real man's truck, say a Dodge ram 1500 or F-250, or Chevy Silverado HD can haul the couch AND the chair AND the bike and look stylin doin it! And oh yeah, never bat an eye at hills with all the HP. The underlying thesis is.......there is a proper tool to do the job and tin is good for the little "around the house" chores like fishing ponds and catching 2 lbers. But when you want industrial strength, stump pulling, 5th wheel hauling bassboat performance for us full growed folk, GLASS fits the bill! LOL durn fever, mess wid me eh?