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15 years from now: Cat costs?
The rule of thumb on reasonably well built monohulls is that after a reasonably high initial depreciation, 10 to 15%, one in good shape will typically sell for what it cost new less the cost of commissioning.
From what I am hearing out of marine surveyors is that the do not expect the multihull fleet to do as well because the boats are typically proportionately engineered to a lesser safey margin in comparison to their significantly higher loadings. I suspect like old 1980''s era IOR race boats, that at 15 to 20 years old the structure of these boats will be pretty well used up.
Jeff
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