Grunff wrote:

Yes, obviously it's not desireable - a pick list is much better
- but the question I'm trying to answer is: is generating such a
pick list for the main boat attributes realistic?

I should think so - there are/were a finite number of makers and models of
boat, so it's largely a question of research. You can cover the difficult
ones with categories like "one-off", "prototype", etc. Have a means for
users to submit makers and models that you haven't heard of, do some
Googling to verify/correct, and add them to the pick-list.


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