Richard Smith wrote:
You may need more than your 6 criteria.

That was just plucked out of air, very flexible.


1^st is it a powerboat with or without accommodation (this covers water
ski boats etc), or is it a sailboat with accommodation (yacht) or
without Dinghy. (Yes I would be curious to know if my Mirror sail No 530
is still around 43 years after it was built).

So we have power/not and accomodation/not.


The next two criteria is builder/manufacturer and their model. Some
boats were built by more than one yard (505 dinghy was built by Parker
boats, Ronda boats and others). However a Moody 41 or a Moody any thing
else will only be built by Moody

It's beginning to sound like providing set selections for things
like builder and model will be impossible. They may have to be
free text fields.



Size can be in feet or meters

Ok, thanks.


The style of Rig maybe a good criterion to have (Bermudan Sloop, Cutter,
Schooner, Ketch etc)

Is providing a list of styles to choose from feasible, or are
there too many?


The current owner (although how you keep that up to date?)

The idea is that the database relies on users to enter + update
info, thereby building up a complete history of the boat's life.


Any Registration info

Like a freetext registration field?


That’s the absolute minimum

Very useful, thanks.

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Grunff