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A short but true explanation of the situation is that old boats are not scrapped as with cars, why the price difference between all the used boats and the new can not be too high. Why buy a new 20 footer for the price of a used 30 footer?
So production are in huge series with less and less good quality, (eventhough the safety aspects are normally taken care of). Cutting corners is the only way to compete against low-labour-cost-countries and the margins are very tight.
Again, the major producers have not really looked into design as the competitive edge, they rather copy each other than trying new routes. This was much better during the GRP:s childhood when we got to see many new concepts where this new building material was showing what wood couldnīt do.
But all of this is of course due to the big companies structures, with finance departments and stock holders wanting fast profits instead of entrepreneurs who could work day and night for nothing to build up a company...
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