Seems a good time for a company like Outbound. I think their 46 looks like a nice boat, the bigger one looks too much like the snoozer-krooozer-type design, Morris drove into the ground in the last decade. Hinckley lost it's edge in the salboat industry, decades ago. If you specialize in motorboat design, it doesn't seem likely to me that you can be current in sailboat design.

I think production sailboat builders are over a barrel. Their cruising boat designs are dated and don't sell. They didn't change with the market. Plus, the molds for standard fiberglass hull construction can be your demise. It's hard to throw away your tooling even when it is obvious the market has clearly changed. Wanna buy some cruising boat hull forms?

On the other hand, smaller custom builders, Rockport Marine, Brooklin Boatyard, Lyman Morse and now Stevens and Waring Design working out of Front Street Shipyard, are stealing the show when it comes to sailboat design. They're not held back by the tooling in investment that production builders live. They can design each boat from scratch. I think these smaller custom design builders, and creating the sallboats of the future.

It's a new day and there is some exciting design work to see. Nobody really knows where sailboat design is going but I think the old bullders like Hinckley, Sabre, Morris, know where it isn't going to go, again.