MinnieM123
Premium Member
Very true. You and I had a similar conversation in a now defunct forum. For the last year or so any boat that has gone up for sale at my marina is sold within days for top dollar. There's been a lot of "extra" money dumped into the economy and discretionary spending is at record levels. Boats, jet ski's, travel trailers and RV's, dealer inventory is scarce as people have been buying toys.
Yes, some of that is definitely true. Just as an fyi: The boat store owners (in the report), both said that they felt the surge was due more to people not going away on vacations yet (greatly reduced air travel, etc.), and waiting for the pandemic to settle down. So a number of families were getting out on the water for local vacations, where they could socially distance from others. The boat store owners expected the present surge to scale way back, once more of the public got vaccinated, and the virus cases dropped down to lower numbers. (They were thinking next year for their sales to slow down.)