Statistical Surveys

Boat registration totals for July mostly revealed considerable weakness compared with a year earlier, and tumbled back into a steeper downtrend than the prior month’s comparisons.

Volumes of new powerboats, aluminum boats and personal watercraft in the United States continued a downward trajectory in May, according to a survey of state boat registration data.

New-boat registrations are still dropping even though the demand is strong—the problem is lack of inventory.

A year ago in June, sales of new recreational boats were bouncing back after falling virtually flat during April and May.

Far from slipping into a “lull,” as it did in 2016 after strong March sales, the U.S. recreational boating industry achieved moderate gains in April this year that included double-digit growth in the pontoon category.

Recreational boat sales rose 2 percent in the first quarter, slower growth than the industry posted a year earlier.

The U.S. recreational boating industry achieved moderate gains in April.

Last year the recreational boating industry was celebrating its best March results since 2008 — sales gains of 21 percent in the main powerboat segments and 20 percent industrywide.

Outboard fiberglass boats were the industry’s top seller in the early-reporting states.

Marking another milestone in its recovery, the U.S. recreational boat industry sold more than 250,000 boats in 2016 for the first time in eight years.

February Pulse Report was up slightly from January and outdid last year’s figure by a hefty 10 points

Driven by the three boat types that have been the industry’s strongest sellers since the last recession ended, recreational boatbuilders and dealers began 2017 with high single-digit January gains.

The recreational boat industry followed a strong January with moderate February growth.

The U.S. recreational boat industry sold more than 250,000 boats in 2016 for the first time in eight years.

Statistical Surveys said 246,891 boats were sold industrywide in those states in 2016, 4.9 percent more than in 2015.

The gains were concentrated among fiberglass outboard boats and aluminum fishing and pontoon boats.

Lifted by Florida and Texas, the nation’s top two states for sales, the recreational boating industry achieved moderate growth in November that raised the year’s percentage sales gains to levels more in line with forecasts.

The performance marks the industry’s fifth consecutive year of sales gains.

Recreational boat sales posted their second consecutive month of weak growth in October, leaving the industry farther from the full-year gains forecasters were hoping for when 2016 began.

The recreational boating industry achieved moderate growth in November

The industry recorded the highest sales for that quarter since 2008, just before the Great Recession.

The recreational marine industry followed double-digit August sales gains with a slow-growth September.