Since I travel, and pass water along the way, I'd probably be more apt to lean towards a tin boat anyway for the fact of fishing other waters (I'll just use Reelfoot for an example). Understood 'glass is heavier and rides/fishes a bit better, but for the $ I think you could get a bigger tin boat for the same/less money than a glass boat, unless it was a 30-40 year-old hull that's been beat to death. I've looked around a little, and some of them prices are nuts.