National Marine Bankers Association releases their December News Letter

[Ratickle]

Some interesting, and some boring, stuff in here......


I'll be very curious to see how the year finishes. Most of this is 3rd Quarter statistics.



http://www.marinebankers.org/index....sues&id=46:december-2011-newsletter&Itemid=25

 

[Ratickle]

 

[Ratickle]

National Monthly Comparison

•Seasonality of new boat sales remains consistent, steadily increasing in the spring and peaking in June with sales of about 19,000 units
•Little change in 2011 sales from 2010

 

[Ratickle]

National Two Year Comparison by Boat Type

•Below 3 slides represent retail sales of new boats only in 26 states, which represent about 62% of the US sales

 

[Ratickle]

I was shocked at the numbers of outboards sold compared to everything else.......



60% of all boats sold have outboards.......

 

[old377guy]

apparently you're shocked easily

 

[Ratickle]

apparently you're shocked easily

I saw you were in the Tuesday thread.....

 

[old377guy]

 

[Ratickle]

I would have guessed that the IO's were a much bigger percentage of the market than 9%.