Guy's this is turning out to be an interesting and entertaining thread! Thanks all of you, for your input.
I want to get something that will sail well and whilst the attraction of taking something out of a box and sailing it, is appealing, I also want to do the right thing, in truth, I'm not sure what that is now, but it’s got to sail well and be robust.
Boomer,
Sorry, I've not made myself clear. The boat will get sailed by both myself and my youngest, on quite a regular basis, I'm a total sailing novice, and my daughter is young hands, although she's not to bad when it comes to being sensible with my other models. I also believe in using models and want to use any boat in good and not so good conditions, just adds to the fun, so its a ‘yes’ to all of the answers.
Your comments on production and life cycles of products have to be agreed with, and I also like having choices, having these RTR boats available is a good thing. The way technology is progressing into the hobby market, laser cutting and CNC production is becoming evermore affordable; obviously a further and greater range of products is inevitable, another good thing.
I want to get a quality boat that will last, take some knocks and not break on me. If that is a boat not out of the box, then that's that.
Ned, thanks for the link !
As I said earlier, this is very interesting to me and thanks to all that have contributed.
Cheers
Mark