Hi Graham, Before we started building in china we did our research as I was aware of the issues you had been through. I spoke with some of your customers, Brett Crowther & many other designers, your Chinese & US yards, many other Asian & Us yards and with many brands who had success there. Having built Cats to 86ft and monos up to 105ft in NZ, a leading country in boatbuilding & experiencing various issues, I learnt that country of origin is no guarantee of quality. Seen good & bad from every prominent boatbuilding country. The yards we work with in China are Taiwanese owned, their 30 year history seems to have benefits over Chinese run yards. Before letting them build our cats we have learned their strengths & weaknesses by buying 7 of their monohulls, 33-70ft. Similar looking boats to Horizon & Marlow. Nordavn, Selene, Marlow, Defever, Hampton are all examples how Chinese built-Taiwanese owned yards can be succesful but results vary from dealer to dealer depending on their knowledge of boatbuilding and QC steps in place. Our customers here are happy with the price to quality ratio. Taiwan becoming too dear but China is still good. Our hotels are brand new, western owned and better than those I stay at in the US! Certainly no rats! As soon as the recession eases and we move our current demo monohulls we will start a demo 56ft cat to keep for ourself. With Cats its critical to have good design, (50-70k investment) exacting weight study and a yard who knows how to follow it. Seems most our enquiries want wait for the recession & see what we come up with so watch this space! Regards John Winter www.adventurebaypowercats.com Sent from iPhone By the way, anyone else discovered what a handy tool an iPhone is on a boat? An $8 add on for Navionics charting, free electronic level and tides and unit conversion software. highly recommend it!