My family and I had been going to Western, NC rivers a couple times a year rafting. After coming into a little money during 06' WSOP I bought a Baltik 14' raft off Ebay. I have been extremely happy with it. Have run Nantahala about a dozed times with youth groups, French Broad section 9, either 5 or 6 times including one trip at about 4400 cfm. I have only run commercial rafts prior so I can't compare to the Aire or other private rafts, based on price I don't think they are even remotely something one should be comparing too. The materials are very strong, barely scuffed. I am headed to the Ocoee this week, Thur-Sat and should be able to give you a better update. Heck as far as that goes, we will probably have an empty seat on Friday, maybe Sat.

PS regarding other Baltik post. The 1st trip we ran, we didn't get the thing infalted enough. Works great when inflated "tight".