"I have loved my Hobie 18 for 27 years...." I can't see anyone saying that about their rotomolded Getaway!
Maybe if Hobie didn't make the 18's last so long some of those sailors would have bought new ones! Obviously as a customer of 27 years ago he expects Hobie to sit around with new boats until he finally wants another one.
As a buisness owner (and most of you are not) we have a problem called employees, they tend to want to get paid at the end of the week! Each company does what it deems best for their bottom line, if someone out there can do it better by all means get out the check book and make it happen. Vectorworks seems to be doing that (lets see what happens in a couple of years with additional models and waning sales of the older style). I think thats great for them! I wish I could buy one of those Blades.
Blasting Matt about what Hobie is doing is like telling one of my employees you don't like how I'm running my business... he's got nothing to do with what decisions I make so you're wasting your time.
