[Rhodes22-list] sail magazine article

[john Belanger]

publicity is almost always good, i agree. it's probably a combination of good design, and good company management. some of those early companies went in and out very quickly, and some never did have a good business plan in place.

Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:  Thanks John, I get the magazine but hadn't read the article. I dunno 
that it's all that bad. Any mention is good publicity and obviously 
if a sailboat is still in production after all this time there must 
be a market for it. There is no doubt that the design is an old one 
from the late 60s whether it's a relic or was simply ahead of its 
time is for the market to decide and I think it has.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 02:43 PM 6/2/2007, you wrote:
>just so y'all know sail magazine is running a mini series called 
>"the boats we sail".....second installment this month dealt with the 
>"boats of the 70's". blaming the '73 oil embargo for a sea change in 
>boat buyer marketing, it went on to tell about how everyman was 
>enabled to join the sailing community by way of the mass marketing 
>of trailer sailers. at the end of the article it refers to the r22 
>as a "RELIC, still in production". they should get a lot of letters 
>to the editor on this one. i don't want to get the list upset but it 
>had to come out.
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