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Dave Brown
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Initially Posted - 12/30/2014 : 15:44:20

My boat is #411, what was the number of the last Tall
rig boat ??

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Dave Brown
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Response Posted - 01/03/2015 : 20:04:38

Did I not make the question clear?
Or is this something no one knows.
DB.

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Ape-X
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Response Posted - 01/03/2015 : 20:10:38

don't know the answer Dave. But there ARE some on the site who know a lot of the history. Better yet is to call Catalina directly. They were VERY helpful to me with mast drawings, cradle drawings etc., which they freely e-mailed to me. Why the question? Curiosity, History buff, looking for name ideas?

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Response Posted - 01/03/2015 : 20:24:16

I can say #321 is a Tall Rig.

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Dave Brown
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Response Posted - 01/03/2015 : 20:48:34

Michael
I don't know for sure, but I think I have one of the last one's made.
Just would like to know. !!
DB.

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Response Posted - 01/06/2015 : 17:03:29

Michael
I called Catalina today, The man said that they could tell
me how many 250 were made, but it was "insignificant" to them as to how many were tall rigs.
Well, so much for my little "Q".
Thanks you all for input.

my $.02 worth.
Dave B.

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 01/06/2015 : 22:27:07

The association's list includes #797, a 1997 (one of those figures is wrong); and #898, a 2006. I'm surprised by the latter--I thought the tall rig was discontinued well before then. But I suppose it could have been a special order. Note that we only have 302 C-250s listed of the over 1000 built.

I got curious while looking at this, and noticed that Catalina only built about 300 C-250s in the last 10 years of its production, and maybe about 30 in the last three years (going on hull numbers). Compare that to something around 170 C-250s in the first year, and over 1500 C-25s per year in the mid-1980s. We were recently discussing the changes in the market--clearly it has changed, and it's not hard to see why Catalina gave up on that part of it.

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Dave Brown
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Response Posted - 01/08/2015 : 10:39:10

My boat is a 1999, #411.
The numbers #797 in 1997 seems wrong.
As for a special order, ? who knows.

I looked a the new Catalina 27, nice boat, but $70.000.00 + !!
That's a hard number for a boat of that size, at least in
the Mid west.

So thank you all for your help, BUT until some one
comes up with a bigger number than #411. I claim
the last Till rig made.

My $.02 worth.

Dave B.

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Response Posted - 01/08/2015 : 16:25:37

quote:
Originally posted by Dave Brown

My boat is a 1999, #411.
The numbers #797 in 1997 seems wrong.
As for a special order, ? who knows.

I looked a the new Catalina 27, nice boat, but $70.000.00 + !!
That's a hard number for a boat of that size, at least in
the Mid west.

So thank you all for your help, BUT until some one
comes up with a bigger number than #411. I claim
the last Till rig made.

My $.02 worth.

Dave B.

It has to be wrong. My 1998 is #348. My guess is the boat is #297.

The new 275 has less space than our 250. Doesn't appear to be a cruising design, at least not my kind of cruising.

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 01/08/2015 : 21:47:53

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Originally posted by TakeFive

...The new 275 has less space than our 250. Doesn't appear to be a cruising design, at least not my kind of cruising.

It looks to me to be aimed at the club racing market--perhaps to consider against the J-80, but with maybe somewhat better family/weekending accommodations and features.

However, it's a little like Pontiac trying to go up against BMW--it really doesn't matter which one is the better "value." Club racers will want to be in Js. I predict a slow, quiet death for the C-275.

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 01/09/2015 08:09:55

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