how many boats have Princess, Fairline etc etc made

[kashurst]

As a recent owner of a Rodman I was looking at their website yesterday. As well as making leisure boats they make quite a variety of military/police type boats. (unfortunately they won't sell you one with guns on the foredeck)
I also noticed that Rodman have made over 13,000 boats so far. That struck me as a lot in 40 years

how does that compare with other builders?

 

[petem]

As a recent owner of a Rodman I was looking at their website yesterday. As well as making leisure boats they make quite a variety of military/police type boats. (unfortunately they won't sell you one with guns on the foredeck)
I also noticed that Rodman have made over 13,000 boats so far. That struck me as a lot in 40 years

how does that compare with other builders?

I believe Fairline are up in the 20,000 region (50 years).

 

[ari]

That would be 400 a year every single year from a standing start. That seems a lot...

 

[stelican]

Probably nearer 13000 as 10,000 was about 12 years ago

 

[petem]

Probably nearer 13000 as 10,000 was about 12 years ago

I stand corrected.

 

[jfm]

I stand corrected.

Fairline is just under 13k

 

[Portofino]

Yeh but how many are still running ?

Think Fords / Vauxhall’s and Ferrari / Landrover
A more useful stat imho would be what % are still running or in boat terms I guess still floating / worthwhile restoring ?

What are you inferring with Bayliners Zillions of boats ?

 

[stelican]

I would think they all are except burnt ones.
Take a look around Bristol floating dock if you want a history lesson in UK built GRP boats!

 

[ari]

The Norfolk Broads also - it's like a time warp over there!

 

[matthewriches]

Got to love a broads boat lol

The Norfolk Broads also - it's like a time warp over there!

 

[JerryC]

To return to the OP's question, if I may ... my boat is a Princess and they have a Heritage website showing basic stats about models, eg length, draught, air clearance and number of years in manufacture. I'm interested to know how many of my model (P40 Flybridge) were built, but this info is not up there. Does anyone have any info?

 

[stelican]

To return to the OP's question, if I may ... my boat is a Princess and they have a Heritage website showing basic stats about models, eg length, draught, air clearance and number of years in manufacture. I'm interested to know how many of my model (P40 Flybridge) were built, but this info is not up there. Does anyone have any info?

Approximately 40 per year

 

[JerryC]

@stelican, thank you! It's more than I thought.

 

[doug748]

For Princess it is probably in excess of 20,000 boats in total, over 50 odd years. That is if you ignore the name change from Marine Projects and include the saily yachts they used to produce. They built most Moodys for example and (I think) all of the Sigma range.