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| sworrall - 7/9/2014 10:43 PM
...X176 is a very expensive project, probably in the realm of $50,000.00 to develop the tooling and get a prototype built. The 17.5' market hasn't been real strong,......has to do with demographics and who buys that size multi-specie boats. There isn't as much margin in boats as you might think, so it takes quite a few sold to recover the cost of development.
Tuffy has the X190 tool and plug already built, so retooling for a 19' tiller would not be a huge expense.
thanks Steve--I work in product development, so that makes perfect sense to me. Appreciate the insight.
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