Southampton, UK - Today, boats.com announced its monthly rankings of European boat manufacturers, based on the most popular consumer searches by brand, new and pre-owned, on boats.com (www.boats.com), the leisure marine industry's number one online market-place during the month of November 2002. The industry leaders listed here have been selected most often in consumer searches of over 3,400 boat models from more than 300 manufacturers currently listed on boats.com

On the boats.com Power Top 20 List: New, Sunseeker, Zodiac and Azimut lead the way, while Gulf Craft enter in 5th place, Gobbi in 11th, Nimbus in 15th and Neptunus in 20th place.

On the boats.com Power Top 20 list: Pre-Owned - Sunseeker, Fairline and Princess are 1, 2 and 3 in that order, Neptunus enters in 11th, Baglietto in 16th, Versilcraft in 17th together with Windy, Sea Ranger and Avon in 18th, 19th and 20th position respectively.

On the boats.com Sailing Top 20 List: Beneteau and Jeanneau retain the top two positions with Cornish Crabber moving into 3rd place. The big movers are Catana up to 4th from 10th and Solaris up to 5th from 14th. Mystic was the highest new entry in 11th position.

On the boats.com Sailing Top 20 List: Pre-Owned: Beneteau, Jeanneau and Dufour retain their top 3 positions in that order.

In its ongoing campaign to grow boating, boats.com properties are expanding at a market leading pace. For the month of November, potential boat owners and participants have visited the boats.com properties more than 1.4 million times and visitors have searched through more than 37 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. Zodiac
3. Azimut
4. Princess
5. Gulf Craft
6. Birchwood
7. Pershing
8. Fairline
9. Ferretti
10. Avon
11. Gobbi
12. Sealine
13. Elan
14. Sessa
15. Nimbus
16. Rodman
17. Hardy
18. Aquador
19. White Shark
20. Neptunus

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. This data is driven by the presence of more than 3000 dealers and brokers in the market place

BOATS.COM POWER TOP 20 LIST: PRE-OWNED

1. Sunseeker
2. Fairline
3. Princess
4. Azimut
5. Sealine
6. Ferretti
7. Benetti
8. Cranchi
9. Zodiac
10. Riva
11. Neptunus
12. Pershing
13. Hardy
14. Aprea Mare
15. Birchwood
16. Baglietto
17. Versilcraft
18. Windy
19. Sea Ranger
20. Avon

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. Catana
5. Solaris
6. Oyster
7. Northshore
8. Bavaria
9. X-Yachts
10. Laser
11. Mystic
12. Lagoon
13. Voyage
14. Dufour
15. CNB
16. Farr
17. Topper
18. Wauquiez
19. RS
20. Maxi

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. This date is driven by the presence of dealers and brokers in the marketplace - totaling more that 2500.

BOATS.COM SAILING TOP 20 LIST: PRE-OWNED

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

About boats.com, Inc

boats.com provides marketing services to OEM's, dealers, brokers and service companies throughout the global recreational marine industry. The company provides an unmatched level of consumer access to information, boat listings, accessories and financial and insurance products.

boats.com represents the manufacturers of over 90% of all new boats in the U.S, over 3,800 new boat dealers together with a growing international presence. This is the largest concentration of recreational marine industry marketing in the world.

Since 1995, YachtWorld has been the premier channel for yacht brokers to list and sell boats over the Internet. With more than 60,000 yachts for sale by more than1600 brokers from 105 countries, YachtWorld is an integral part of the global brokerage community.

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boats.com, Europe

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