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Originally Posted by Melrna
The bad at the show. Most of the production boats I saw I was shock to say the least. They have cheapen the boats with inferior materials all through out the boats. Concrete/steel keels vs lead, lower grade deck hardware, plastic and inferior woods in the cabin. I asked the head sales person at the show about this and they all acknowledge what I saw. They all said it was to keep the boat in a certain price range and they had to make some changes. It reminds me of what they did in the mid 80's-90's during the last boat recession. It was a horrible thing to see.
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I ESPECIALLY liked the quarter-sawn plastic veneer on the Jeanneau cabinetry!
Sailing buddy and I were showing is stepson/new daughter in law around. Looked at the Morris and other YACHTS, then went and showed them the POS crappy boats and why they were crappy.
Makes me more convinced then ever to find an older boat that has depreciated and fix it up the way I want. Or find one that already has 95% of what I want. In the meantime my sailing club's Catalina 320 and others will have to do.
Didn't buy anything. Just looked, but had a great day. In fact it helped me get over being "sick" and I was able to go back to work on Saturday!