not to mention worth a fraction of the value of the cruising boats at
resale time.


How so? We could have had a nice J34c for 8K more and she was worth it
with a huge sail inventory. We looked at a Sweden 36 asking 66K, the
Pretoreon (sp) for 60K, J35 for 55K....the First 35s5 was in the same
price class. The baby Swan is more expensive by a mile, but the last
few years have seen 35s5 prices actually go up along with the late
model C&Cs and J boat cruising models.

RB
35s5
NY