"Nothing wrong with that so long as you live long enough..."
I almost didn't. My NBR buddies know I almost had the "big one" (my apologies to Fred Sanford!) at 39 in March 2006. So these days I try not to take anything for granted, even though I'm supposedly healthy as can be right now...
"And, it won't be a 33 that grows (in number anyway) to a 36 is 3 years."
I loved the 33 super sport - the rocket launchers and bait well was a great touch! For those of us who spend more time catching porgies than we do tuna, and a lot more time cruising the waterways, it was a perfect fit...
"...so they ended up costing more than most of their competition, and not really being any better."
You know, I'm not sure if it was that they weren't any "better" as opposed to their not being better suited to the public's tastes. The boating public has completely changed its mind in the last 20 years as to what boating should be, and IMHO its not for the better. But what do I know - I'm one of those dinosaurs that actually likes flybridges and dislikes ECs, who likes the idea of a fish well and rod holders in the back of a plain old cabin cruiser, and for whom the spacious cabin (for a 28') and the big head with shower you can actually use on my boat actually mean something. To everyone else its an ugly old scow, but to me its exactly what a boat should look like. My only regret is that its not 33'...
