Traditional Boat Buying Research

[Ed]

Posted on behalf of WBTA.

From: Alison Kidd <alison@prospectory.co.uk>
Date: 2008/10/23

I am doing some research on behalf of the Wooden Boatbuilders Trade Association (WBTA) exploring how often (in their lives) people buy a traditional-style boat (any size) and whether they buy new, 2nd hand or build their own. We are also trying to understand the role which boat shows play in discovering, choosing or buying such boats.

We'd be delighted if you could invite your members to take part in our online survey given their interest in traditional style boats. We'd also be very happy to share our findings with you if you are interested.

The survey is easy and quick to do and is here:

http://www.boat-buying.research-study.co.uk/

Respondents have the chance of winning a beautiful 'Classic Sail 2009' calendar.

The survey will close on November 30th.

have fun

eib

[Rupert]

Well, I filled it in, but I get the feeling that the definition of traditional varies depending upon which end of the spectrum you are looking...to an RS800 sailo, a Firefly is traditional. To a clinker lugger sailor, it is modern...

[neil]

it was a bit worrying clicking on the "over 20" for previous number of boats owned

[Ed]

I chickened out and said 16-20....

god knows if that is right.

It isn't exactly something I keep an accurate record of.

cheers

eib

[Rupert]

I had 16-20, too, but thinking about it, as I've owned 7 boats at one time, twice, with only 1 overlap, plus lots of others at other times, it must be more...

[Nessa]

I took the chance to say that my sailing club has recently bought a traditional style lugger as a teaching boat. It is fantastic for taking out small groups of younger children, even on their tiny lake, especially for pirate theme days. The kids are very safe because there is seating all the way round, there is no boom to whack them round the head and all the controls are very simple - including no fiddly tiller extension to wrestle with.

I also fell into the 16 - 20 category, though a the moment only have four on the go:

contender 620 (sorry, it's grp too...)
phantom 88
streaker 13??
and some other wooden thing taking up valuable garage space.