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Meet the J/95.
http://www.J/Boats.com/j95/j95intro.htm

Wow...

Intersting so the J/97 must still be on it's way here. So they will have the J/95 and J/97? So that would mean that the J/97 would be probably 200k.

Also the J/97 is a J/Europe boat and the J/95 is a US boat - not built by TPI.

David
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I "get" the J/97, but the J/95 has puzzled me. In my mind, it's too similar in purpose to the J/100. The J/95 looks to be a dedicated luxury performance daysailer, which is what I thought the J/100 was. Also, the presence of the J/95 and the J/97 together almost kill the market for the J/100. All three boats should be priced in the same general area give or take $30k - $50k (I'm guessing). I read somewhere that the J/100 isn't in production anywhere at the moment?? Maybe J/Boats is going to phase it out.

I agree about the confusion between the J/95 and the J/100. They do seem very similar in design goals. Both of them seem to be reincarnations of the J/92, which never developed a critical mass, unlike the sister boats of the J/105 and J/80. The J/97 seems much more like a re-do of the J/32 design paramters, but with the sprit rig and less of an cruising emphasis.

I wonder if it is no coincidence that the 100 was made by TPI - who is no longer building J/Boats and the J/95 is built by a nother company. And the J/97 is built in France. I can only image that moving the tooling from one company to the next would be a very difficult thing to do so they just phase out the 100 and make the J/95.

David
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[This message has been edited by dbows (edited 09-10-2008).]