So, are you thinking Andrews 28 instead of Annapolis 30? It could be a
few more years before the A30 makes a real-life appearance!




Ringmaster wrote:
No I'm still happy with my current ride. *So much so that I have a new
carbon spin pole arriving this week. * Plus I'd never buy a new boat.

Yeah, I'm not enthusiastic about throwing money into that 50% drive-it-
off-the-lot depreciation, either. I've only ever bought one new boat,
it worked out OK but certainly wasn't LESS work to get it up to snuff
as any 2nd-hand boat I've ever had. OTOH some builders are
different... a good friend of mine bought a brand-new Nickels
Lightning back in the '90s, had it delivered to a regatta. The Nickels
van & boat arrived that Friday night, they set the boat up & tuned the
rig, he sailed it the next morning taking some silver... said it was
perfect from the git-go.

There are a few Flying Tiger 10s showing up on the 2nd hand market
already. It might not be that long a of a wait for one of the little
ones to come up for sale.

Last winter I spent some time hunting around among the sportboats on
the market... seems like about $25k is the lowest the Melges 24 guys
will take, and the older boats are clapped-out junkers. A brand-new
boat doesn't sound that bad in comparison!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King