>I have an older GB-42. the salon table was designed to make into a berth. newer GB's have a more functional table. I would like to replace the table. The price from the factory is prohibitive. Our 1973 GB36 has the original "hi-low" table, probably similar to the one on your boat. Having chartered newer GBs before acquiring our boat, I was very much a fan of the newer style "yacht" table, as it's called, or teak drop-leaf table. Like you, I really wanted to get rid of the old hi-low table and replace it with the new, much nicer looking yacht table. As you say, it ain't cheap, so replacing the table became a low priority. We've now had the boat for five years, and I'd have to say that if someone offered me for free a brand new GB yacht table, I would only take it knowing I could sell it for a hell of a lot of money. But I would not replace the old hi-low table with it. We have found the old-style table to be far more useful and flexible than the actually-quite-limited yacht table. The hi-low function has come in very handy, from using it as a coffee table to making a place to stretch out and read during the day, to adjusting the size for the number of people who need to sit around it. The yacht table is beautiful, but other than the storage in the middle, it doesn't do much other than expand a bit in width. I have had one GB36 owner ask me if I would swap tables with them, our old (but in very nice shape) hi-low table for their new-style yacht table. He had been on some GBs with the older-style table, and had decided it was more useful than the yacht table. Had this happened shortly after we bought the boat, we would have taken them up on it. As it was, this was a year or so ago, so we declined the offer. That's just us, though. If you really want to change out the table, you might try the Grand Baniks Owners Association. They have several on-line lists, at least one of which I believe lets you post stuff for sale, trade, or wanted. Back in the late '90s when boat sales were booming, the local GB dealer sold and commissioned a number of new boats of various sizes. On more than one occasion, the owner had a custom table built to go in place of the stock GB yacht table. The yacht tables were removed and sold, some of them for prices far below the cost of a new one. I'm told one of them went for a flat $100. So deals like this do come up from time to time. The new GB dealer in the PNW is Passagemaker Yachts, so you could contact them and see if they will let you know if a GB owner plans to replace the stock table with a custom table and will be looking to sell the stock table. You also might find a local shipwright/cabinet maker who will make you a new teak table for less than the cost of a new GB table. Back when we were still talking about replacing our hi-low table, the shipwright we use said he could make us a teak table similar to the GB table for considerably less than the GB price. I don't remember what his rough estimate was, but it was way less than the factory table. Doc Freeman's tended to buy stuff as they found it, so it may have been more a case of they found or bought a stock of teak tables, but there was not actually a supplier for them anymore. ______________________________ C. Marin Faure GB36-403 "La Perouse" Bellingham, Washington