as a "general rule" boats built in Taiwan have a terrible repuation for
quality, with certain specific boats excepted. You need to ask around.

generally, all the hulls were good, but a lot of them were built with
inappropriate materials (interior grade plywood, screws hammered in, screws
instead od bolts, no backing plates, wooden masts that fell apart, wrong
strainless steel used, etc.) You need to ask around, for some -- not as many
as you might hope -- Taiwanese boats were excellent. Most were not.

Interesting how these Tiawan boats are still around and enjoy a good
reputation. There was much skepticism when they started competing with the
Cheoy Lee and US made boats.

Well, there are yards and then there are yards, if you know what
I mean. As we looked for our boat we saw a lot of asian built
boats that were terribly constructed. Of course we also saw a
couple of North American boats that were victims of poor
construction (Valiant 32?) As I said, we've been very happy with
the construction on our Baba. Ta Shing builds a nice boat. If we
ever move to a bigger boat, we'll probably consider a Panda or a
Tashiba.

Cindy

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