
Better weather means more boat sales in April
Recreational boat sales stayed on a level growth plane in April, helped by better spring weather.

Recreational boat sales stayed on a level growth plane in April, helped by better spring weather.

Recreational boat sales continued to make moderate gains in March.

Last February, amid a bitterly cold winter across much of the nation, the marine industry’s spring selling season opened with a single-digit sales slump. This

Led by four segments that topped 40,000 in sales, the recreational boating industry finished 2014 with moderate growth of 6 percent in the main powerboat

Continuing to show surprising late-year strength, recreational boat sales achieved double-digit gains in December for the second month in a row. An increase of 17.7
Pontoons were the big winners in 2014 — a year that saw overall new-boat sales rise about 10 percent from 2013 by September, when about

New powerboat sales in 2014 grew for the fourth year in a row, including the strongest fourth quarter the industry has seen since 2008. “All

Richard Dumont, who was instrumental in setting up the first marine retail reporting system at Statistical Surveys, retired Jan. 1. Dumont, who turns 73 on
Troubles in the eurozone have hit British boat exports, but domestic demand helped the marine industry eke out sales growth for the year that ended

The U.S. recreational boat industry ended the third quarter with the kind of moderate, steady growth that positions it to end 2014 with single-digit sales

Recreational boat sales stayed on a level growth plane in April, helped by better spring weather.

Recreational boat sales continued to make moderate gains in March.

Last February, amid a bitterly cold winter across much of the nation, the marine industry’s spring selling season opened with a single-digit sales slump. This

Led by four segments that topped 40,000 in sales, the recreational boating industry finished 2014 with moderate growth of 6 percent in the main powerboat

Continuing to show surprising late-year strength, recreational boat sales achieved double-digit gains in December for the second month in a row. An increase of 17.7
Pontoons were the big winners in 2014 — a year that saw overall new-boat sales rise about 10 percent from 2013 by September, when about

New powerboat sales in 2014 grew for the fourth year in a row, including the strongest fourth quarter the industry has seen since 2008. “All

Richard Dumont, who was instrumental in setting up the first marine retail reporting system at Statistical Surveys, retired Jan. 1. Dumont, who turns 73 on
Troubles in the eurozone have hit British boat exports, but domestic demand helped the marine industry eke out sales growth for the year that ended

The U.S. recreational boat industry ended the third quarter with the kind of moderate, steady growth that positions it to end 2014 with single-digit sales