I don't think 25 percent is a credible figure, but it is very hard to get good numbers because you never know whether people are talking about numbers of boats actively racing or boats sailing or boats manufactured.

Even Sailing World Magazine's periodic surveys are very unreliable, because they ask classes to report how many class members they have. Some classes report exactly that, but some report how many boats have been manufactured. So the findings are very skewed, both for monohulls and multihulls.

I remember one such survey several years ago when the Hobie Class reported its current membership at about 12,000. I knew this was wrong, because at that time the NAHCA membership was closer to 1,200. The only thing I could figure was that they submitted what they claimed as the last known circulation of the Hobie Hotline.

It did make the multihulls look good, though, because we got a big slice of the graphic pie that Sailing World included with their survey results. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />