interesting that people are talking about a larger boat, but I really don;'t think it's in the cards because of economic reasons. You can almost price boats by the cube of the length, so if a 17 costs 25K, a 21 would have to sell for a whopping 46K for the manufacture to stay in business. There are too many old 20's and 22's on the market for 10K for this to work in the near future. Possibly a 19, which would only be a 17 with more elbowroom, but you would also need a mast putter-upper, a bigger truck, a stronger crew, a 4K suit of sails, etc etc. Even so, I'm putting your comments in a folder for long-term safe keeping! jerry -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 6309 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message
That is true. Pesky economics. The guy who builds the Left Coast Dart http://www.leftcoast.biz/iWeb/Left_Coast/The_Dart.html auctioned off his high-tech light weight boat by dropping the price a $1,000/day every day from an original price of at least $63,000 (highest figure I could find listed) and it didn't sell until the price had fallen to $40,000. But when I see that boat, I think it is too fancy, too many berths, too polished of an interior despite an intention of simplicity. What we need is a boat about 22' long, weighs 500# with a mast raised by hand so light a 5 year old could manage it, costs $10,000 or less (including trailer). What is so tough about that????? Lol Tod
-----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of jerry montgomery Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 6:52 PM To: montgomery forum Subject: M_Boats: (no subject)
interesting that people are talking about a larger boat, but I really don;'t think it's in the cards because of economic reasons. You can almost price boats by the cube of the length, so if a 17 costs 25K, a 21 would have to sell for a whopping 46K for the manufacture to stay in business. There are too many old 20's and 22's on the market for 10K for this to work in the near future. Possibly a 19, which would only be a 17 with more elbowroom, but you would also need a mast putter- upper, a bigger truck, a stronger crew, a 4K suit of sails, etc etc.
Even so, I'm putting your comments in a folder for long-term safe keeping!
jerry
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