Sorry, I don't mean for this to sound pessimistic or depressing.
Does anyone know what the sales numbers for Catalina 22's look like these days? Given the current trends of modern sailing, which all are hurtling toward ever bigger and more elaborate boats, faster faster faster, more hulls, foils, and zillion-dollar price tags, I recently began to wonder if the venerable C22 even HAS a future. Is anyone buying these boats anymore?? How many people buy small boats, brand new, at $40K price tags? What the heck, it's been thirty nine years since the C22 went into production, and nothing lasts forever.
It's not that the current production boat - the Catalina 22 Sport - holds any interest to me personally. I'm a cruiser, not a racer, and the Sport looks like it would be hard to spend more than a night or two aboard at most. I would like to buy one of those fancy lead-encapsulated keels from Catalina Yachts someday though, if they still make them by the time I can afford one.
So, does anyone have any inside info? Or just pure speculation for that matter. This is just idle chatter after all.
Does anyone know what the sales numbers for Catalina 22's look like these days? Given the current trends of modern sailing, which all are hurtling toward ever bigger and more elaborate boats, faster faster faster, more hulls, foils, and zillion-dollar price tags, I recently began to wonder if the venerable C22 even HAS a future. Is anyone buying these boats anymore?? How many people buy small boats, brand new, at $40K price tags? What the heck, it's been thirty nine years since the C22 went into production, and nothing lasts forever.
It's not that the current production boat - the Catalina 22 Sport - holds any interest to me personally. I'm a cruiser, not a racer, and the Sport looks like it would be hard to spend more than a night or two aboard at most. I would like to buy one of those fancy lead-encapsulated keels from Catalina Yachts someday though, if they still make them by the time I can afford one.
So, does anyone have any inside info? Or just pure speculation for that matter. This is just idle chatter after all.