ric wrote:
The trend we're really seeing in 2013 is not these little things like LCD dash, but the main things like.. more in house designs. An 80s/90s boat is pretty much a hull with the interior mail ordered. Now companies like Four Winns are making everything on their own. More automotive like. We're stepping away from the parts bin boats and into real in house designs. That's a big change considering the last 30 years of boats were pretty much all the same and hard for some people to get used to. IF you still like the look of a mail order boat, you can still buy a Bayliner
Your basic understanding of the boat business is pretty limited isn't it?
I'd like for you to name one manufacturer of fiberglass runabouts that is/was "mail order"...and NO Bayliner is not what you call a parts bin boat. All boat builders use suppliers for things like gauges and general fittings. Some spend the money to have special things tooled with their logo or a special design. Bayliner buys the bottom rung gauges, cleats and through hull fittings and puts them onto a hull of their own design and manufacture.
In house design
and manufacturing of all components is NOT the end all, be all. In house design and using select manufacturers to make the more specialized items, is the way of the world, whether it be boats, cars, houses or for that matter electronics. Vertical integration went the way of the dodo in the 70s-80s in the auto industry.
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