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Buoyed by a strong November, the recreational boating industry got the holiday present it wanted — a second consecutive month of double-digit sales gains in December, traditionally one of the slowest months of the year. Sales rose 14.6 percent to 3,381 in the main segments and 11.1 percent...

Registration is open for the American Boating Congress, which is set for May 9-11 on Capitol Hill. Each year ABC brings boating industry leaders to Washington, D.C., to lobby on behalf of the industry. In 2015 National Marine Manufacturers Association members, co-hosts and industry stakeholders...

Gunboat International, a manufacturer of luxury carbon fiber sailing catamarans, is headed to auction. The motion in bankruptcy court comes after owner and founder Peter Johnstone, who is from a family of sailboat builders, filed for Chapter 11 restructuring in November. Gunboat can entertain...

MIAMI — The ink was barely dry on the last permit needed for the Miami International Boat Show to move to Virginia Key when NMMA president Thom Dammrich made it official at a packed meeting Thursday of the Marine Industries Association of South Florida. “The show is happening,” his slideshow...

JRL Ventures/Marine Concepts hosted a town hall meeting for Florida Sen. and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio at its Sarasota headquarters. More than 550 people gathered at the manufacturing facility to attend Rubio’s first town hall meeting in the area. Owner and CEO Bob Long opened...

MarineMax said at a press event at its Pompano store in Florida that it will introduce Galeon Yachts to the U.S. market and become the exclusive Galeon representative throughout the Americas. MarineMax will introduce the Polish brand, which the retailer said has been building yachts for more...

Construction of the Progressive Miami International Boat Show is underway and organizers are assuring exhibitors and visitors that it will be ready in time for its Feb. 11 opening. The National Marine Manufacturers Association, which runs the show, said much already has been done and the show...

We know now that private employers were hiring at a surprisingly strong pace in December. It’s time to find out how consumers behaved last month during the all-important holiday season. The week’s key reports won’t arrive until Friday, but they probably will be heartening. Bloomberg says the...

The Brewer Yacht Yard Group said it acquired Green Harbor Marina in Marshfield, Mass., and Onset Bay Marina in Buzzards Bay, Mass. The new marinas join the company’s 24 other full-service marina and boatyard locations along the East Coast from Maryland to Maine. “We are thrilled to welcome these...

The Progressive Insurance San Francisco Boat Show, which was scheduled for next week, was postponed until April because of storms resulting from the current El Niño episode. Weather conditions left organizers no time to install the temporary docks for the in-water portion of the show, which was...

People stood in line Wednesday at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, waiting for the New York Boat Show to open at noon. Traffic built throughout the day and exhibitors were upbeat about 2015 sales and their outlook heading into the new year. “The New York show has always been...

The Miami International Boat Show received the federal approval needed to move ahead with plans to relocate to the Miami Marine Stadium Park and Basin despite fierce opposition from a neighboring village during every step of the way. The Army Corps of Engineers issued the final environmental...

The Hinckley Company said today that it acquired Morris Yachts, another high-end Maine yacht builder. Hinckley said it acquired the assets of the sailboat builder on Jan. 1 and plans to continue Morris’ boatbuilding and service operations in Trenton, Maine, under the name Morris Yachts LLC. Both...

The National Marine Manufacturers Association is touting a long list of marine industry wins in 2015 — accomplished with the support of the entire industry and other trade groups — that includes further opposition to laws requiring additional ethanol in the fuel supply, recreational boat travel...

The Coast Guard is considering a series of policy changes after a routine towing accident resulted in a sunken vessel and a death. In early December, the Coast Guard arrived to tow the commercial fishing boat Orin C back to Gloucester, Mass., to repair an overheated engine, but the 51-foot boat...

For an Indiana woman who was critically injured in a boating accident in May, the holidays are more special than usual this year. Becky Harris, 52, and her husband recently visited Indianapolis Fire Station 9 in Castleton to say thank you. Indianapolis Fire and EMS, along with Fishers Police and...

BRP said it signed a multiyear sponsorship agreement for its Evinrude brand with the Fishing League Worldwide tournament fishing organization. Evinrude, the official outboard engine sponsor of the FLW since 2001, will have on-site brand activation at all FLW Tour, FLW Series, Bass Fishing League...

Boat sales showed surprising strength in November, rising by double digits in the main powerboat segments and industrywide during what is traditionally one of the industry’s slowest months of the year. Sales rose 15.1 percent to 3,303 in the main segments and 13.2 percent industrywide to 4,385...

New Jersey’s new bipartisan boat sales tax cap, coupled with a reduction of taxes on boat sales by half to 3.5 percent, will help the state’s hard-hit industry. That’s according to an editorial in the Press of Atlantic City, which says that although the tax change will benefit those buying...

A Fort Lauderdale board gave the go-ahead to a $400 million project for the Bahia Mar resort and marina, a key location of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. The redevelopment of city-owned beach property cleared its first hurdle on Thursday, when the city’s planning and zoning board...