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Smack,
I appreciate you are wanting to focus on the 1-3 categories as that has been less focused on in general on SN.
I think you will find a gravitation to the BW side as that seems to capture the imagination of the arm chair sailors more than buying a boat to cross a small lake. Not to say that isn't what 99% of people end up doing! (although we are making it off the couch as it were and have a BW boat and we are taking to the Marquesas ... we also sail on a lake but on the lake I like boats that go fast for the Regattas....so that is my focus...) all that said
Production boats can be broken in style Cruise or Race
age older or newer
older can further be broken into cca or ior
the lake boats and models vary from area to area
In the plus 20 year old boats In the PNW there are a tonne of San Juans which are a great production boat mostly in the IOR style.
In the west there are many Santanas to...a little less 'pinched' but a great light fast boat
Other general (older) production boats Catalina, US boats, Ericson, Bayfield, J, Mac, PS, O Day, Tanzer
Newer (some of these have been around a while) C&C Bene, Catalina, Jenneau, Dufour ...
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