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Has anybody noticed the absence new Jon boats under 15ft for sale?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ray Clark" data-source="post: 498144" data-attributes="member: 31103"><p>This...although I doubt they'll restart even if the price of aluminum falls. There's a fairly decent YouTube vid on the subject: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI9ecMb0Jhw" target="_blank">Wayne the Boat Guy</a>. The video even highlights that many makers still carry the jon boat lines in their catalogs, but they're not likely to ever make them again.</p><p></p><p>There is a fairly vigorous used market out there for smaller jon boats. There are thousands of of unused jon boats behind people's houses, lying derelict in the woods, or even buried under a bunch of junk in garages. Enough of those make their way onto Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace to keep new boats from ever being very expensive. Since these craft are so simple and relatively easy to rehab, their presence in the boat marketplace will always mean that profit margins on new jon boats will stay so low that boat manufacturers are unlikely to restart production on the smaller jon boats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ray Clark, post: 498144, member: 31103"] This...although I doubt they'll restart even if the price of aluminum falls. There's a fairly decent YouTube vid on the subject: [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI9ecMb0Jhw']Wayne the Boat Guy[/URL]. The video even highlights that many makers still carry the jon boat lines in their catalogs, but they're not likely to ever make them again. There is a fairly vigorous used market out there for smaller jon boats. There are thousands of of unused jon boats behind people's houses, lying derelict in the woods, or even buried under a bunch of junk in garages. Enough of those make their way onto Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace to keep new boats from ever being very expensive. Since these craft are so simple and relatively easy to rehab, their presence in the boat marketplace will always mean that profit margins on new jon boats will stay so low that boat manufacturers are unlikely to restart production on the smaller jon boats. [/QUOTE]
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