[Jeff_H]

Only one thing worse than a company that builds bad boats, is the kind of disingenuous behaivor that is taking place here. This is not the first time that this topic has come up. In past discussions there have been a predominance of new Catalina Owners that have come forth with problems. It really surprised me that this time there was a large bunch of Catalina Owners that had no problems but did have a very similar writing style. I have participated on this bulletin board for nearly five years now and when I see a name that I don''t recognize I often looke them up on the Member Directory to learn more about who they are.

Suddenly here in this one thread, there were a bunch of names that I did not recognize and when I went to look them up most of the names in this thread were not in the Members Directory. (Look them up for yourself. None of these names are listed in the directory: Barr, Tidetim, Rogern, KTMVGD, Mogul11,Delerious,GoNavy,PGW,CMHyland, Texasgal,Quida123,Randolf Camp, Dmaher.)

So I ask myself how is that all of the happy Catalina owners suddenly appear on this bulletin board at the same time and that none of them show up in the Member directory? All that I can figure is that in the absense of real happy Catalina owners that had someone decided to fabricate a bunch of fictitious personalities in order to somehow create the impression there are whole lot of happy Catalina owners out there.

NICE F*CKING TRY!

If the only way that you can win an arguement is by fabricating multiple blowhard personalities, you just have to wonder about the validity of the point. For the record, Ihave no idea why you think that Catalina is the most successful boatbuilder in the world. Hunter does more volume than Catalina and Beneteau Group dwarfs both companies combined. Beneteau has been in business nearly 80 years longer than Catalina.

So I repeat, over the past few years, I have spent a lot of time on Catalina, and Beneteau products and a bit less on Hunter products. Yesterday I asked a number of my surveyor friends about this question. I am really glad that *all* of you like your boats, but I still come up with the same answer, in the past 10 years Catalina has fallen behind the other two of the big three in build quality. You don''t have to believe me. Just go aboard a bunch of 10 year old Hunters, Catalinas, and Beneteau, or ask any experienced surveyor and then draw your own conclusion.

Jeff