A potential buyer needs to understand that your boat is NOT going to rot anytime within his lifetime unless he just takes no effort whatsoever to care for it. So, to my way of thinking, the first thing a potential boat builder would want to do is definately seperate his offerings from the rot prone high maintenance classics. No one wants to build a dinosaur but hey, folks do buy them. And yet, every Edsel ever made, eventually got sold. These companies do not want to leave the guess work to chance and yet, so many times in the past, they've been dead wrong. Large companies such as Ford and GM spend millions in market research to try and get an idea of what the public is buying. You maximize your potential market and quicken the pace by offering what appears to be the most desirable designs. So it's simply a matter of sticking with it long enough to find THAT person. Sooner or later, not matter what you build, someone will come along that will like it and want it. People are people and you're going to run into all kinds of different personalities. I know what you're thinking and that is "What in the world does lawncare have to do with boatbuilding?" The answer is that both are businesses that need to be marketed. Now, I'm going to apply the reasoning that I've learned from my lawncare/landscape biz. "nice to look at but I wouldn't want to own one." Therefore, if you can allay these fears in the minds of potential buyers, you should be able to sell your boats. So it's NOT that people don't want wooden boats, it's that they are afraid of them. It can be locking through on the Tom Bigbee or it can be on a trailer at a gas station and people will start gathering. A fine wooden boat will draw a crowd almost anywhere it goes. But we need to see the reason they don't want wood boats and address that issue with marketing. (hey's it's 4am) Anyway, then I got to thinking while I was back in bed and some things occured to me and so I'm back. Sorry for the double post but I finished up the previous post and went back to bed.
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