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I don't like these categories- almost all boats are more than 20 years old, the question is how much older? Boats easily last over 100 years if well maintained, and they've been making boats for almost as long as people have been on earth! Having 20 years as the maximum category is crazy.
My boat is a 1974 (35 years old) Catalina 22. My dads boat is almost 80 years old!
1974 Hallberg Rassy Rasmus that I,ve only worked on, never sailed.
1973 Catalina 22 that I have actually sailed.
2002 Doug Hylan designed 13 ft. peapod (homebuilt)
Two 2001 McKenzie River Driftboats (homebuilt)
Update:
Sailboat: 37 years old
New boat: 33 years old.
Average:35 years old.
Can I divide the age of the boats by the square root of my age? 'Cuz if so you get a more accurate picture of me and my fleet, not that skewing the numbers will make us younger or better looking.
I wish I understood the results of the poll. The oldies are beating out everyone else. Is cost a function of age? Is it that newer designs are poor, or unattractive?
Well, consider that fiberglass boats have been on the market for about 50 years, and that there were probably a lot more boats built in the late 1960's and early 1970's than have been built since the 1980's (due to the cost of oil, from which the plastic if glass-fiber-reinforced plastic comes from, and due to the luxury tax that killed the boat building industry, and other factors).
So one explanation for the poll results is that there are simply a lot more older boats out there than newer boats.
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