Lets look closer to the numbes provided :

2003 last 5yrs total
H16 202 574 150000
A class 100 450 1000
F18 300 2000 3000
Tornado 38 191 2000


is best translated into

Data from 2003

H16 produced last year = 202 produced last 5 years = 574 , total produced ever = 150000
A class produced last year 100; produced last 5 years = 450; total produced ever = 1000
F18 produced last year = 300; produced last 5 years = 2000; total produced ever = 3000
Tornado produced last year = 38; produced last 5 years = 191; total produced ever = 2000


In order to arrive at 150.000 boats produced ; Hobie had to produce between 4500 and 5000 boats a year over a 30-35 year time span .

Anybody else noticing a trend in the H16's ?

Sure; F18's are about 147000 short on produced ever (when looking at 2003 data) ; but they out sale the H16's yearly by a 100 boats and out sell H16's by no less than 2000-574 = 1626 boats over the last 5 years.

And that was data from 2003. 2004 has been a good year for the F18's with strong growth in Aus and USA so the numbers will be even more disproportional now.

It also looks like A-cats are breathing down the necks of the H16's when looking at produced over the last 5 years.

So I refer to me VW beatle example here ; the number produced over the last 40 years doesn't mean sh!te if you are not producing them at the same levels anymore anymore.

Wouter