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This WebPage is for world-wide entrepreneurs who either: 

       Want to start a business doing something they really would enjoy working. 

       Are already manufacturing motor boats or sailboats and are interested in considering the advantages of building the Rhodes22 for their market. 

       Want to become a partner in a world wide company. 

From the buyer's point of view, one of the most costly elements in purchasing a boat is delivery.  Shipping a boat is very expensive.  And it is a cost that will continue to increase each year. 

From the buyer's point of view, making an expensive purchase of a large, heavy, detailed toy, from a manufacturer far from home, can be cause for concern about the practicality of guarantees and servicing. 

From a selling point of view, most buyers give a lot of thought to getting into sailing.  But, once they make that decision, they want that sailboat now.  Having to wait for a boat built in a foreign country, can result in their choosing a lesser boat built locally but one that they can be sailing tomorrow. 

For the boat builder, who has developed a unique product that is not being duplicated by builders in other parts of the country or the world, the most practical solution to these buying and selling dilemmas is Franchising – or merging. 

Good question.  Here is our good answer Your entry costs will be lower.  Your sales will be easier.  Your profit will be greater.  Everyone enters a venture assured of success.  Few succeed.  So, most important of all, your risk will be smaller.  Choosing the Rhodes 22 to build, immediately puts 20 years of unique honed-to-perfection features in the bank for you.  You start with a product that is proven and respected.  You can also elect to just be a builder and have the option of the selling being done for you with sales turned over to you from boat shows all around the world.  Start-up time will be dramatically shorter and start-up costs much, much lower because all of the custom and specialized parts are immediately available for you without your having to invest time and money in specialized dies.  Items like IMF (Innermast furling spars) and related hardware, sails, pop top arms, 6:1 motor lift, etc.., that would cost you long lead time and a fortune in tooling, will all be instantly available for you, and at lower costs than you could ever duplicate. 

In short, you start off with a design department tuned into your buyers' dreams, a purchasing department that already knows the best sources for the best prices, management that has learned the hard way how to keep you from making costly errors, a sales department that will save on literature and promotion materials, a research and development department that will keep your product ahead of the competition with continuous hot new design features and up-graded construction techniques.  All of which will get you rolling faster for a smaller investment. 

Your initial investment could conceivably be anything from $50,000, if you are already a going fiberglass concern, up to $250,000 (or much more, depending on the size of the operation and the scope of the market you envision.) The beauty is that you will find it easy to attract investors to a fun product like the Rhodes 22.  And you will find a ready market among the newly rich of the emerging nations from Mexico to Malaysia. 

Of course, to support such a venture, franchise areas are large and, therefore, the number of builders has to be limited.  So give it some early thought.