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Originally Posted by NoTies
I'm posting this on the multi and mono forums so I can try to average out the responses. Are there any definitive figures on the percentage of multihulls currently cruising bluewater and also figures on the rate of market growth? |
In terms of market growth even the mono representatives are saying that the market in overall is struggling. Stronger markets are flat, the rest is shrinking slightly. The cats are growing very fast but volumewise, they are still represent a tiny portion of the market. However the share of cats in value is significant because average unit
price of cats is much higher than monos. This why Hanse,
Bavaria and
Dufour has come into cat market. (Beneteau is already there with
Lagoon and
Jeanneau is coming next year)
This is data that I gathered unformally from both mono and cat manufacturers sales and
marketing executives. Nonetheless I don't anyone has an accurate market data. Lastly, both cat and mono manufacturers are saying that the share of
charter segment is increasing very fast.
The fact that all cat manufacturers are short of supply today is not relevant though; this is mostly because Irma has destroyed thousand of boats in the Caribbeans and most of these boats were
charter catamarans and the
catamaran manufacturers' production capacity is (still) way too small compared to monohulls.
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Yeloya
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