Transport Canada has released the Pleasurecraft Licensing statistics for July 2019.
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NMMA’s New Powerboat Registration Report with US market stats, has been updated with data through May. Preliminary data from the report shows new powerboat registrations were up 3.3 percent through May on a rolling 12-month year-over-year basis and up 1 percent on a rolling 3-month year-over-year (R3M YOY) basis.
Transport Canada has released the Pleasurecraft Licensing statistics for June 2019.
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Transport Canada has released the Pleasurecraft Licensing statistics for May 2019.
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The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) Canada announced today the release of the first two sections of the 2018 Canadian Recreational Boating Statistical Abstract – Economic Facts and Retail Markets (New Boats).
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Transport Canada has released the Pleasurecraft Licensing statistics for April 2019.
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Transport Canada has released the Pleasurecraft Licensing statistics for March 2019.
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NMMA’s latest New Powerboat Registrations Report for the US market shows new powerboat registrations were up 4.2 percent in 2018 compared to 2017.
We have just learned from Boating Ontario that there is an important survey in progress that Ontario and Quebec marinas should respond to.
The Time Standards Manual was developed in 1996 by the Marine Fabricators Association (MFA), a division of the Industrial Fabrics Association International, to serve as a benchmark that shop owners can use to set fabrication times, with which they can generate competitive labor costs.
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HOURSTON GLASCRAFT LTD.
The world’s oldest continuously operating fibreglass boatbuilding company is Hourston Glascraft in North Vancouver.
Charles ‘Chuck’ Hourston was born in Vancouver, BC in 1923. He attended Vancouver Technical School before serving in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. He was an avid hockey player and played for the Army. After the War, in 1948, he worked for Hamish Davidson (Davidson Manufacturing Ltd.) building Sabot sailboats. Davidson experimented early with the new technology of fibreglass in boat construction, and Hourston taught himself the art of building hulls with this material. His first boat was a dinghy.
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BRP COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF TELWATER, AUSTRALIAN LEADER IN ALUMINUM BOATS
On August 1st, BRP (TSX:DOO; NASDAQ:DOOO), announced the completion of the previously-announced acquisition of 80% of the outstanding shares of Telwater Pty, Ltd ("Telwater"), Australia's leading manufacturer of aluminum boats and trailers.
As BRP’s third boat acquisition, Telwater’s addition to the Marine Group is another step in helping create a strong offering and foundation to expand into new markets, with the objective of transforming the marine industry as it did for powersports.
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THE MOORINGS AND SUNSAIL UNVEIL MASSIVE INVESTMENT IN CHARTER OPERATIONS IN 2019
Travelopia Yachts, the world’s premier yacht charter business and parent company to charter brands The Moorings, Sunsail and Footloose, has announced unprecedented investment into its charter products in 2020.
Following the devastation of Hurricane Irma in the fall of 2017, Travelopia moved quickly to re-establish operations in its flagship Caribbean destinations, reopening in the British Virgin Islands in December of 2017 and in St. Martin in February of 2018, with an ongoing investment of over $130 million into its charter business.
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