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The National Marine Manufacturers Association is now a conservation partner of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Foundation and will feature the foundation’s conservation efforts in February at the Miami International Boat Show. The foundation helps bring attention to the importance of protecting...

The marine industry is learning more about how Americans spend their leisure time and what to do as an industry to capture them. The National Marine Manufacturers Association is partnering with the U.S. Travel Association as a Project Time Off coalition member. NMMA staff attended a Project Time...

Chris-Craft is introducing the Calypso 26 at the Nov. 5-9 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. The Calypso 26 will be a new range in the dual console segment and is equipped with an enclosed head, holdup seating in the cockpit and a wind door. Also at this year’s show will be the Launch 36...

U.S. boat registrations were down 1.7 percent to 11.8 million in 2014, new data show. Registrations in the top 10 states totaled 6.2 million and accounted for 52.2 percent of all boat registrations, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association. The data include boat registrations...

As someone who grew up with and helped grow Rinker Boats to where it was during its heyday, newly reinstated president Kim Slocum has hit the ground running. One of his first orders of business is trying to get back some of his former staff, many of whom left during the last few years as...more...

Hurricane Patricia, with 200-mph winds that make it the strongest hurricane ever recorded, is expected to make a “potentially catastrophic landfall” in Mexico today, the National Hurricane Center said. The hurricane is forecast to make landfall in the Mexican state of Jalisco this evening as a...

Some 51 products were nominated to go forward for final judging by the jury of the silver jubilee edition of the DAME Design Award competition. The products have been selected from among 108 entries from 24 nationalities. The jury will choose as many as seven category winners and one overall...

Front Street Shipyard in Belfast, Maine, is partnering with Brødrene Aa in Hyen, Norway, to market, sell and build carbon-fiber ferries throughout the United States under the new company name Arcadia Alliance. Working in conjunction with the Maine Composites Alliance and Martin Grimnes, a...

A late spring and a summer that lingered helped the recreational boating industry to post strong September sales this year for the third year in a row. Led by aluminum fishing boats and pontoons, small to midsize fiberglass outboards and personal watercraft, sales in the main powerboat segments...

Hurricane Joaquin might have threatened the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, but the show ran as scheduled Oct. 8-12 with largely gorgeous weather and tremendous crowds. “From our standpoint, it was amazing,” Jeanneau America president Nicolas Harvey said. “I think I haven’t seen such a busy...

The village of Key Biscayne is back in court in its attempt to stop the 2016 Miami International Boat Show from taking place at the Miami Marine Stadium grounds — an effort organizers say is futile since nothing will deter the show from occurring at the park on Presidents Day weekend. “They...

Dominator Boats, one of many Australian boatbuilders that have announced plans to penetrate the Americas, said it has a new entry strategy for the market. Dominator said it will engage industry veteran*Constantinos “Cos” Constantinou, who will develop new markets for Dominator and be...

The recent sale of Nautic Global Group and all of its brands to Bennington Marine came as a surprise to some in the industry and dealers that carried the brands expressed both excitement and a bit of apprehension about the transaction. Saratoga Boatworks manager Josh Mance said he was surprised...

The National Marine Manufacturers Association acquired the rights to the American Sportfishing Association’s four consumer shows, a strategic move that will boost the NMMA’s ability to expand the fishing component at some of its existing shows. “Not only do we acquire four great shows that are...

U.S. boaters have the official go-ahead to travel to Cuba, but government authorization is just the first step for the “pioneers” who are opting to make the journey after a half-century embargo. “It’s not as easy as hopping on your boat and saying, ‘OK, I’m going to Cuba, and I’ll be back...

An agreement between the city of Miami and the village of Key Biscayne fell through after a long closed-door meeting Thursday night — unsurprisingly after village officials reneged support on Wednesday — but organizers of the Miami International Boat Show say that won’t prevent the show from...

A deal between the city of Miami and a neighboring village that would have ended a legal dispute over the Miami Marine Stadium and its surrounding area — and a drawn-out fight over holding the Miami International Boat Show at the site — has fallen through. On the eve of today’s Miami Commission...

Pontoon manufacturer Bennington Marine announced today that it completed the acquisition of the brands and “certain assets” of Nautic Global Group LLC and is assuring dealers and customers that all of the brands will continue to function independently. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The...

A settlement agreement proposed by the city of Miami and the village of Key Biscayne that would end a dispute over the Miami Marine Stadium Marine Park will not thwart the Progressive Miami International Boat Show from taking place there in 2016. “If the mediation agreement is signed by the city...

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called the effects of Hurricane Joaquin historic, producing “a 1,000-year flood” as torrential rains pummeled the region on Sunday. Despite staying far offshore and weakening to a Category 2 storm this morning, Joaquin wrought havoc on some East Coast states...