Q3 Registrations Spiked 32% in Main Powerboat Categories, 13% Overall
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Dec 17, 2020
New-boat registrations in the main powerboat categories increased 32.2 percent over the same period last year, and were up 10 percent on a rolling, 12-month basis, according to data from Statistical Surveys, a Michigan firm that tracks registration data.
The data accounts for more than 95 percent of the U.S. market omitting Illinois and Maine, which report once a year in the months of July, August and September, said Ryan Kloppe, sales director at Statistical Surveys.
Pontoons were up more than 40 percent compared with the third quarter of 2019, and ski and wake boats were up more than 38 percent. Sterndrive boats, which had been declining for years, were 33.3 percent higher than the comparable period last year.
Dealer Week 2020 Was âAnother Firstâ
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Dec 14, 2020
The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas’ Dealer Week 2020 focused on the issues that recreational marine retailers are facing today in light of the pandemic a dynamic that has amplified challenges dealers were having already.
“Once again, [MRAA president] Matt Gruhn and his team came up with another first,” Joe Lewis, owner of Mount Dora Boating Center and Marina, told
Trade Only Today. “Last year they reinvented the conference and expo with the first Dealer Week, and this year they reinvented it again. That team has not met face to face since last March. They were able to do all of this remotely.”