Daniel E. Best wrote:
Peggie Hall wrote:

...more than 2/3 of all boats sold today are used boats...


Peggie,
Is this an actual number or a guess on your part? If real, I'm amazed
that the number isn't much higher.

It's real...the last numbers I saw were 67%. They're a few years old, so
the current number could be even higher.

At least for larger boats, of all
the people I've known who own sailboats, there's only one that I know of
that actually bought a new boat - perhaps that's why the yacht club I
used to belong to was sometimes self-described as the "poor white trash
of yacht clubs" ;-}

If yours was, mine was too. My dock at my YC had 16 slips...all the
boats on it were 30-42', not a one newer than 15 years old, the oldest
was a 1970...all beautifully restored and updated. We had one empty
slip, which was taken by a new member with a brand new 36' aft cabin
cruiser...who couldn't quite manage to hide his disdain for our old
"dowager queens"...till he finally figured out that all of us were
equally unimpressed by the fact that he was the only person on the dock
making boat payments...we'd all paid cash--about what his down payment
was--and put what we would have paid a bank into restoration...and our
boats had all the "bells and whistles" his did.

But I guess somebody has to buy new boats...otherwise, there wouldn't be
any old ones TO restore.

btw, thanks for being such a great resource. You fill an information
need here and elsewhere on the net like no one else.

Thanks for the kind words!

Peggie
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Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
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