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mccalack
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Brock
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Location: Carlyle Lake, Illinois
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| Anyone notice the lack of wings on the keel? Or am I missing something. |
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Jon
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| Brock wrote: | | Anyone notice the lack of wings on the keel? Or am I missing something. |
yeah it's called a fin!
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mccalack
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| Any idea what percentage are wings vs. fins? Was this an option or a model year change? |
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Jon
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| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| mccalack wrote: | | Any idea what percentage are wings vs. fins? Was this an option or a model year change? |
Good question, I think that kind of data will be gathered here as more people find this place & share information about thier boat.
I find it almost disturbing that there are some people who are on this site, they own a 235, & haven't shared anything about thier boat or themselves?
I think that it is sad that there are people who are "info paranoid". All this crap about Identity theft has people reeling. This site is pretty secure & KH weeds out the spam trolls, & nobody is submitting their SS#.........heh
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Daryl
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Joined: 11 Dec 2004
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Location: Truman Lake, MO
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| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Was this an option or a model year change |
It isn't a model year change. To the extent that an end owner actually "ordered" a boat to spec I'd call it an option. I suspect the real mechanism was what a dealer thought would appeal to their local market.
There have been a lot of fins out of the Chicago region. On Lake Michigan a fin makes a lot of sense. A boat that would be regularly trailered, sailed on inland lakes or Atlantic coastal water from Hatteras south would be best suited with a wing.
It would be interesting to know the US distribution by retail dealer. Beneteau must have this info, but it's probably not real accessible. These boats were made before relational databases became a religion. The Captains Shop in Lawrence, KS sold a bunch of 235s. They are out of business now, although the principals are still around. If I can sniff out an email for Bruce I'll ask. There was an active dealer in St. Louis, probably the source for most of the Carlisle boats. I don't know if they are still a Beneteau dealer, but they don't buy Beneteau boats for inventory. New boats on the yard are all Hunters, up to 30 something feet.
If you don't count J24's, a case unto itself with a whole different dynamic/market, the vast majority of trailerable pocket cruisers were swing keel boats. That's part of the 235 uniqueness.
If anyone has contact with a dealer in their area that sold new 235s, it would be interesting to chat them up and report here. I'm guessing that current Beneteau dealers are not necessarily the dealers that sold most of the 235s.
This is part of the 235 story we don't have a lot of data on. Let's see if we can get some <G> |
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