boats.com has expanded its monthly rankings of boat manufacturers that are based on the most popular consumer searches by brand, new and pre-owned, on boats.com, the leisure marine industry's number one online market-place. As the numbers of new boat manufacturers who list their models on boats.com increase, there is growing interest in these manufacturers on a global basis. The new boats.com International Top 20 together with the U.S. Top 20 provides a truly global perspective of the relative positions of the brands involved.

The industry leaders listed here have been selected most often in consumer searches of the models from nearly 400 manufacturers currently listed on boats.com

On the boats.com Power Top 20 List: New - Sunseeker retains top place with Azimut 2nd and Birchwood 3rd. Ocean Alexander enters in 6th place while Broom and Ryds enter in 19th and 20th position respectively.

On the boats.com Power Top 20 list: Pre-Owned - Sunseeker, Azimut and Fairline are 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively, Ocean Alexander enters in 5th, Monte Fino in 11th, Hershine in 17th and Storebro in 20th.

On the boats.com Sailing Top 20 List: New - Beneteau, Jeanneau and Cornish Crabber retain the top 3 positions. Northshore moved into 4th place while X-Yachts moved up four places to the 5th spot. Tayana entered in 7th place

On the boats.com Sailing Top 20 List: Pre-Owned: Beneteau, Jeanneau, Dufour and Bavaria remain in the first four positions in that order. Tayana enter in 5th, while Moody move up to the 9th spot.

In its ongoing campaign to grow boating, boats.com properties are expanding at a market leading pace. For the month of December, potential boat owners and participants have visited the boats.com properties more than 1.4 million times and visitors have searched through more than 27 million pages of boat listings, specifications and content related to boating. Such traffic to the Internet's leading boating properties is helping the industry broaden the awareness of boat brands and manufacturers, as evidenced by the Top 20 Lists, and enabling customers to find dealers selling new and pre-owned boats.

Following are the complete boats.com Top 20 lists. boats.com will update these proprietary lists monthly thus providing the industry with a snapshot of what's hot in the consumer's mind. boats.com Affiliates, Manufacturers and Dealers can tap into additional consumer activity that is updated in real time and which will help to illustrate coming trends in the market place.

The boats.com Power Top 20 List: New illustrates the real time data representing searches for new boat information on specific boat brands.

BOATS.COM POWER TOP 20 LIST: NEW

1. Sunseeker
2. Azimut
3. Birchwood
4. Zodiac
5. Princess
6. Ocean Alexander
7. Fairline
8. Gulf Craft
9. Pershing
10. Ferretti
11. Avon
12. Sealine
13. Hardy
14. Gobbi
15. Aquador
16. Rodman
17. Sessa
18. Nimbus
19. Broom
20. Ryds

The boats.com Top 20 Power List: Pre-Owned represents searches for pre-owned boat information and listings from dealers and brokers on specific boat brands.

BOATS.COM POWER TOP 20 LIST: PRE-OWNED

1. Sunseeker
2. Azimut
3. Fairline
4. Princess
5. Ocean Alexander
6. Sealine
7. Ferretti
8. Riva
9. Neptunus
10. Cranchi
11. Monte Fino
12. Pershing
13. Zodiac
14. Baglietto
15. Aprea Mare
16. Birchwood
17. Hershine
18. Hardy
19. Versilcraft
20. Storebro

The boats.com Sailing Top 20 List: New illustrates real-time data representing searches for new boat information on specific boat brands. This data indicates that early participants in the boats.com website have already established a strong following.

BOATS.COM SAILING TOP 20 LIST: NEW

1. Beneteau
2. Jeanneau
3. Cornish Crabber
4. Northshore
5. X-Yachts
6. Oyster
7. Tayana
8. Laser
9. CNB
10. Dufour
11. Lagoon
12. Catana
13. Bavaria
14. Solaris
15. Topper
16. Farr
17. Mystic
18. RS
19. Maxi
20. Wauquiez

The boats.com Sailing Top 20 List: Pre-Owned represents searches for pre-owned boat information and listings from dealers and brokers on specific boat brands.

BOATS.COM SAILING TOP 20 LIST: PRE-OWNED

1. Beneteau
2. Jeanneau
3. Dufour
4. Bavaria
5. Tayana
6. Nauticat
7. Westerly
8. Nautor
9. Moody
10. Fountaine Pajot
11. X-Yachts
12. Hallberg Rassy
13. Dehler
14. Baltic
15. Prout
16. Wauquiez
17. Lagoon
18. Catana
19. Oyster
20. Sweden Yachts

About boats.com, Inc.

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boats.com represents the manufacturers of over 90% of all new boats in the U.S, over 3,300 new boat dealers together with a growing international presence. This is the largest concentration of recreational marine industry marketing in the world.

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