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. 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" ;-}

Had we restricted ourselves to buying a new boat for what we paid for
our used Tayana, we would have been limited to an unequiped Catalina 27
(or similar boat). Buying used was a complete no brainer. I honestly
don't know who buys new boats, but it sure isn't us.

btw, thanks for being such a great resource. You fill an information
need here and elsewhere on the net like no one else.
--
Dan Best - (707) 431-1662, Healdsburg, CA 95448

B-2/75 1977-1979
Tayana 37 #192, "Tricia Jean" http://rangerbest.home.comcast.net/TriciaJean.JPG