Help.. Someone took two meters off my boat

Some twenty years ago, the boat building companies named their vessels with a number that was close to the real size of their vessels, when in later years, when they are designing a new vessel they tend to name it after the LOA, in order to make us believe that their vessels are larger than their actual size. As an example, the Jeanneau model of 1983 "Trinidad 47" had an L.W.L of 41,34 ft, when the 2002 model of the same company, Sun Odyssey 52,2 has a L.W.L 41,8 feet. Both yachts are of the same size.

But my dear Jeanneau marketeers, the beautiful 53 footer you recently sold me is only 47 feet, according YOUR estimations of just a few years ago. What happened and who took off 2 whole meters from my boat?

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