"FishWisher" wrote in message
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I think 20 years of producing the same model of my 22' C-Dory must
rank up there pretty high. Just wondering... anyone know of a longer
production run for a recreational power boat?

Dale
www.FishWisher.com


How about 37 years (or thereabouts)?

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"In 1962, Robert J. Newton and his sons, John and Whit, were running a
custom boatyard on Junk Bay in Hong Kong called American Marine, Ltd. Father
and sons built heavy sailboats and big motor yachts, to designs by the
world's top marine architects - Sparkman & Stevens, William Garden, Nat
Herreshoff, Ray Hunt and others.
That year they commissioned Kenneth Smith, another well-known marine
architect, to design a 36 foot, diesel-powered cruising boat. Spray was
launched in 1963 and a year later the Newtons abandoned their custom yacht
building to focus on producing the first of a line of boats that would be
known as Grand Banks."
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http://www.boatcouncil.com/boat-manu...rand-banks.asp

Actually, the first official "model year" for the 36 Classic was 1965.
Although the 36 was discontinued for a while, American Marine stated that
production of it would be resumed in 1999, and I *did* find a '99 36 Classic
advertised on the 'net. It basically looks just like the original. I don't
know if they were continued after 1999.

Eisboch