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The Marine Industries Association of South Florida and Show Management signed a 30-year agreement to produce the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. “Our marine industry has become a prominent job creator, and our region is a world-leading marine sales, refit and repair hub,” MIASF...

Godfrey Marine said it completed the sale of the brand and certain assets and liabilities of Polar Kraft aluminum fishing boats, which is located in Syracuse, Ind. Godfrey Marine manufactures Hurricane deckboats and Godfrey pontoon boats. The decision to sell the aluminum fishing boat line was...

Growth in U.S. recreational boat sales slowed during the fourth quarter, but builders and dealers sold 15,477 more boats in all of 2015 than they did the year before, marking the fourth straight year of gains for the recovering industry. Full-year sales rose 6.2 percent to 159,116 boats in the...

The Florida Senate voted 36-2 Monday to adopt a House-initiated bill that would limit anchoring at five locations in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. The House approved the measure by a vote of 105-12 on Friday. The bill now goes to Gov. Rick Scott for his signature. He has seven days to sign or...

The Florida House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly, 105-12, on Friday to adopt a bill that would restrict anchoring at five locations in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. HB 1051 would prohibit anchoring from a half hour after sunset until a half hour before sunrise on the Middle River...

The Florida House of Representatives on Thursday voted down an amendment that would have added a location on the Gulf Coast where anchoring would be restricted under a proposed bill creating exemptions to a 2009 state law that prohibits localities from keeping liveaboards or cruising boats from...

The Miami International Boat Show’s water taxi service to and from the show was so successful that local officials are discussing exploration of a public water transit system. The boat show saw months of opposition to its plan to reduce traffic on the Rickenbacker Causeway, which is the only way...

The National Marine Manufacturers Association is selling the Los Angeles Boat Show and the San Diego International Boat Show to the Duncan McIntosh Company and says it won’t produce a San Francisco show in 2017. Without those shows on the roster, the NMMA will close the NMMA West offices in the...

MasterCraft went public last July and a financial analyst says the company is the most attractive of the 13 companies he covers in leisure space, including Brunswick, Malibu and MarineMax. MasterCraft is one of the three major players that account for 75 percent of the towboat market, and its...

A package of legislative provisions that will benefit recreational fishing and hunting passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday. H.R. 2406, the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act, passed by a vote of 242-161. It now awaits Senate action. The American...

West Marine continued its trajectory of growth in the fourth quarter and for fiscal 2015 and said it anticipates a pretax profit increase of more than 50 percent in 2016. The company said it continued its overhaul of existing stores, closings of underperforming stores and its focus on...

A bill that would limit anchoring at five locations in Broward and Miami-Dade counties cleared a Florida Senate subcommittee on Wednesday in an 8-1 vote. SB 1260, a pared version of a similar bill proposed last year that would create exemptions to a 2009 state law prohibiting localities from...

After two consecutive months of double-digit gains, U.S. recreational boat sales fell in January in the main powerboat segments and industrywide for the first time since last spring. The last broad-based decline occurred in May and the January stumble was only the second since February 2014...

People in the marine industry have been hearing anecdotally that there is a shortage of skilled workers, but to date there has been no data to make the case. The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas is launching a workforce assessment survey in an effort to collect hard data on shortages...

The 2016 Miami International Boat Show, which concluded Feb. 15, hosted its largest delegation ever of Colombian government officials and industry leaders — more than 40 people, including business owners and buyers, who sought to promote their country’s emerging and growing nautical tourism. The...

BOSTON — With no snow during all nine days of the New England Boat Show — and nearly springlike weather during the final weekend — exhibitors and organizers said the event was a success. “It’s been good,” said show manager Joe O’Neal, who also announced his pending retirement. “You can’t really...

Evinrude added 31 new boat manufacturer partners in North America since the introduction of its E-TEC G2 high-horsepower outboards in June 2014, according to parent company Bombardier Recreational Products. “[Thirty-one] is a big number,” BRP president and CEO Jose Boisjoli told Trade Only Today...

The National Marine Manufacturers Association said attendance was up 4 percent to 100,279 at the Progressive Miami International Boat Show in its first year at the Miami Marine Stadium Park and Basin on Virginia Key. The NMMA said exhibitors reported strong sales, with many reporting increases...

MIAMI — One popular topic on the docks at this year’s Miami International Boat Show was the addition of convenient sea trials, which offered a huge variety of product tests for serious potential buyers. Extremes on both ends of the spectrum were Qwest Pontoon Boats, powered by Torqeedo, and...

MIAMI — Brunswick Corp. debuted the all-new Harris pontoon V series at the Miami International Boat Show, a new center console fiberglass pontoon boat that is designed to appeal to high-end buyers. The V270 features a unique interpretation of a center console design. The boat comes standard with...