Most of the sailing fleet in this area was manufactured in the 70's or 80's.
Up here the season is about 5 months long so our five years might be equal
to 2 years in Florida.......or 12 years here equal to 5 down south.

Shwackman wrote in message
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Jim, I had a marina owner tell me once "never violate the five year rule".
In
his opinion, as far as buying used went, anything older was worthless.
Turned
out to be good advice I think.