Most popular boat style trends for 2016?

What!?! The most popular boats for 2016 seem to now include a higher demand for fishing boats now used for family boating according to a recent boating industry report.

We love researching trends and how people across the USA are buying and using boats and the trends are forming for 2016 seem to coincide with online search trends. A few fun boat buying facts shaping up for the 2016 popular boating trends that we would like to highlight from the article published on boatingindustry.com referenced below include:

1. many manufacturers are seeing the fishing boat replace the fiberglass I/O as the de facto family runabout
2. fishing boats are easy to clean
3. these boats have outboard technology which has surpassed the I/O
4. fishing boats can hold a lot of people
5. fishing pontoon boats can pull a skier – great for fishing in the morning and fun in the afternoon
6. average boat size seems to be increasing
7. average engine power seems to be increasing
8. comfortable seats are a must

As you research your own most popular boat choices and preferences for 2016, whether you are purchasing or just fishing around (excuse our pun), we encourage you to read the article where we found the takeaways mentioned above on BoatingIndustry.com an article named Market Trends: Family, outboard trends favor fishing boats written by Jonathan Sweet, Editor in chief published on June 9, 2015.