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There is a significant and growing proportion of sail boat enthusiasts who are now looking for better on-board living convenience, lower maintenance, and a more natural sailing experience.
Sailboats require engines with sail drives which create low resistance under sail and high efficiency during power. 40-75hp output engines are most preferred choice of sailboat owners.
In Latin America, Argentina is among the biggest market for saiboats where locally built sailboats are very popular. In Asia, SouthKorea is an important and fast growing market, where lesiure boat population has gone past 30,000 in 2018. About 4,000 new boats are registered annually and 50% of them are sailboats.
In Europe, Poland is a major exporter of sailboats, more than 90% sailboats produced in Poland are exported worldwide. Sailboat manufacturing in Italy accounts for $140-$150M revenuer per annum.
South Africa is also a major manufacturer and exporter of single hull and multi-hull sail boats.
The continued escalation of EU-US trade war places enormous risks to the supply chain of boating industry in US and Europe..Aluminium is a critical raw material for boat and marine component manufacturing, and increased costs for US manufacturers to source aluminum will adversely impact sailboat market.
The trend of late in cruising multi-hulls has certainly been toward catamarans, to know more about developments in Catamaran market, read our report.
The global sailboat market is estimated at $XXM annually.
SPBI and Construction Navale Bordeaux are France’s two top boat builders, both operated by Beneteau, produce 60-70% of French sailboat exports, annually.