All boats break. Certainly ours did, however it was our fault as we hadn't double welded an area that was known to be a point of failure.

I think you have to look at the overall failures, the frequency of such, and how they occurred. Point being I don't have any personal experience with the HT, but I have spoken to many that do, and almost universally they have given unfavorable accounts of it.

Of course, I'm only one ancedotal jackass <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />