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The latest court case over labeling E15 was thrown out Tuesday because the industries bringing the complaint, including the recreational boating industry, can’t show people have been harmed as a result of the misfueling regulation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismissed the...

Little Traverse Sailors in Harbor Springs, Mich., hired Dan Thompson as program director. Thompson served for the last two years as sailing director of the Little Traverse Yacht Club and as the Little Traverse Sailors race team coach during the summer this year.He will continue in both of those...

Isolated cases of Ebola in the United States and slow growth in Europe have caused investor concern, but U.S. manufacturing has shown resilience despite the fears, with output increasing 3.7 percent in the last 12 months — doubling from its 1.5 percent rate in January. That’s according to an...

Red snapper is back on the table. A contentious Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting is under way this week to determine the future of red snapper and how much of them recreational anglers can catch. An amendment that anglers oppose, saying it would unfairly allocate too much of the...

Marinalife named the Nantucket (Mass.) Boat Basin and Haven Harbour Marina in Maryland as winners in the fifth annual 2014 Best Marina Contest. Nantucket Boat Basin was named Best Transient Marina and Haven Harbour Marina, of Rock Hall, Md., was voted 2014 Best Customer Service Marina...

BARCELONA, Spain — The producers of the Barcelona International Boat Show, which wrapped up Sunday in the Mediterranean port city, reported 53,000 visitors at the five-day show. Although the Spanish economy is just beginning to show signs of recovery, organizers were optimistic that the...

BARCELONA, Spain — Walking the docks and chatting with locals at the Barcelona International Boat Show, an American boat show veteran can see and hear many of the same challenges and successes that builders and dealers find stateside, but on a much smaller scale. Like most of the rest of the...

Just as the sun was setting on the summer of 2014, the industry had one of its best performances of the year in September, posting sales gains of nearly 10 percent in the main powerboat segments and across the industry. Led by stalwart post-recession categories such as aluminum fishing boats and...

The 53rd annual Barcelona International Boat Show opened Wednesday on the Mediterranean Sea to blue skies and warm weather. The first U.S. pavilion at the show is set near the gate, where several manufacturers exhibited to explore opportunities in what is an untapped market for many American...

The 53rd annual Barcelona International Boat Show, which is being staged today through Sunday at Port Vell on the Mediterranean coast, will provide another important view of the European market. The National Marine Manufacturers Association has exhibit space, along with five U.S. manufacturers...

Business at Scout Boats has risen about 25 percent during the last four years, in contrast to the industry average of 6 or 7 percent growth in the period, fueling a $2.5 million expansion that should add 300 employees in the Charleston, S.C., region. That’s according to owner Steve Potts, who...

More of today’s boat buyers are looking for the best of the best — vessels with all of the latest technological bells and whistles. And, of course, a huge part of the purchase is the propulsion package, so Yamaha Motor Corp. is making sure its engines offer the highest levels of performance...

With 2,414 boats changing owners in September, sales in the U.S. brokerage market were off 7 percent compared with the same month in 2013. Yet the average selling prices held even or they improved, except in the superyacht market over 80 feet, according to YachtWorld member brokerages reporting...

Four executives at New Nautical Coatings, doing business as Sea Hawk Paints and Sea Hawk Refinish Line, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Florida to criminal charges in connection with a scheme to unlawfully sell a marine coating that contained an unregistered pesticide. Chief executive...

Organizers of the International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition & Conference said today that the 2014 show attracted 6,900 conferees last week to Tampa, Fla. As reported in Trade Only Today last Friday, that represents a 47 percent increase from 2013, when the industry trade show was held in...

Manufacturers, vendors and sailors from around the globe will gather on miles of docks Thursday in historic Annapolis, Md., to open the 45th United States Sailboat Show. Boat show enthusiasts at the five-day event will board and inspect boats built by virtually every major sailboat manufacturer...

Seven-time world offshore racing champion Miss Geico will challenge her airborne counterparts — two solo pilots from the Geico Skytypers — to a duel on the water during this weekend’s Embry-Riddle Wings and Waves Airshow at Daytona Beach, Fla. Miss Geico, a 50-foot yellow catamaran, is powered...

TAMPA, Fla. — Consumers continue to add gadgets, equipment and electronics to their boat — everything from LED underwater lights to inverters to video cameras to stern thrusters to 22-inch multifunction helm displays. And, of course, they’re armed with their mobile devices when they come aboard...

TAMPA, Fla. — IBEX show director Anne Dunbar reported a 47 percent increase in the number of industry professionals who attended the 24th annual International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition & Conference at the Tampa Convention Center. Dunbar said in a statement that the IBEX team had been feeling...

TAMPA, Fla. — The marine industry bombarded me with innovation at the 2014 International Boatbuilders’ Exhibition & Conference and that innovation came from several newcomers to the show. “We had nearly 100 new companies participate in IBEX and we attribute this to boatbuilding continuing to...