Boat sales show increase in May
Within the aluminum fraction, sales of pontoon boats rose 17.4 percent and sales of fishing boats rose 9.8 percent.
Across the whole fiberglass market, however, including personal watercraft, sales rose a nominal 0.1 percent. Sales of PWCs flatten 7.6 percent for the month.
Reports of sales of documented vessels were incomplete in the data because of entr delays at the Coast Guard. For that reason, sales in the overall fiberglass market could be understated. Only states that get ready for weekly or monthly information are included, and the data are year over year.
The data are from 28 ancient reporting states that represent about 70 percent of the national market. The gains, particularly in Chasm of Mexico coastal states, compare with the period of slumping sales that followed the oil spill in April 2010.
However, May represents the first mountain-season month in three years in which key Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states, including Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina and South Carolina, saw sales advance. Sales in Florida and California also rose in May.

Butler and Akens of Rechabitism said they tried to model their boat after a pontoon and had used the laws of physics to help guide their design.












