- "Raw demand is tremendously strong. What we’re really seeing is constrained supply. Even though we’re increasing capacity, because field inventories are so low...it’s probably going to be three years before we really get field inventory levels back to where they should be."
Regarding increased demand, Mr. Foulkes also mentioned that at the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show "first-day sales of Boston Whaler boats increased by 50-percent versus the same show last year."
For access to what once were affordable luxury goods such as a new boat, it appears that the affluent are being driven out of the market by the super-affluent. With the larger Boston Whaler boats now priced at over a million dollars, buyers must have enormous wealth to be indulging in outboard-engine day-use boats at that price point.
As a guy who has never bought a new Boston Whaler boat, I now find that I truly cannot afford them any more.