Southampton, UK: boats.com, Inc. has announced its June 2003 rankings of boat manufacturers, based on the most popular consumer searches by brand, new and pre-owned, on boats.com, the leisure marine industry's number one online marketplace. As the numbers of new boat manufacturers who list their models on boats.com increase, there is growing interest in these manufacturers on a global basis. This new boats.com International Top 20 includes only non-U.S. brands, which, together with the U.S. Top 20, provides a truly global perspective of the relative positions of the brands involved.

The industry leaders listed here have been selected most often in consumer searches of the models from over 350 manufacturers currently listed on boats.com.

On the boats.com International Power Top 20 List: New - Sunseeker and Zodiac remain in 1st and 2nd place while Azimut moves up to 3rd place. Sealine moves up 5 places into the 4th position with Pershing in 5th place rounding out the top five. Broom re-enters in 13th and Aquador re-enters at 17.

On the boats.com International Power Top 20 list: Pre-Owned - No change in the top 5 places; Sunseeker remains1st, Fairline 2nd, Azimut 3rd, Princess 4th place and Sealine in 5th. There are 3 new entries this month; Benetti in 8th place, Riva in 11th and Neptunus in 13th.

On the boats.com International Sailing Top 20 List: New - Beneteau and Jeanneau hold on to 1st and 2nd place, with Lagoon moving into 3rd. Laser in 4th and Bavaria 5th round out the top five. Big movers are Oyster up 6 places into 7th and X-Yachts up 8 places into 8th. Arcona enters for the first time in 16th place.

On the boats.com International Sailing Top 20 List: Pre-Owned - No change in the first three positions, Beneteau 1st, Jeanneau 2nd and Hallberg-Rassy 3rd. Tayana is the big mover re-entering in 6th place.

In its ongoing campaign to grow boating, boats.com properties are expanding at a market leading pace. Potential boat owners and participants visit the boats.com properties monthly viewing more than 40 million pages of boat listings, specifications and content related to boating. Such traffic to the Internet's leading boating properties is helping the industry broaden the awareness of boat brands and manufacturers, as evidenced by the Top 20 Lists, and enabling customers to find dealers selling new and pre-owned boats.

Following are the complete boats.com International Top 20 lists for the month of June. boats.com will update these proprietary lists monthly thus providing the industry with a snapshot of what's hot in the consumer's mind. boats.com Affiliates, Manufacturers and Dealers can tap into additional consumer activity that is updated in real time and which will help to illustrate coming trends in the marketplace.

The boats.com International Power Top 20 List: New illustrates the real time data representing searches for new boat information on specific boat brands.

boats.com International Power Top 20 List: New

1. Sunseeker
2. Zodiac
3. Azimut
4. Sealine
5. Pershing
6. Gulf Craft
7. Princess
8. Avon
9. Gobbi
10. Fairline
11. Ferretti
12. Ocean Alexander
13. Broom
14. Sessa
15. Nimbus
16. Ranieri
17. Aquador
18. Rodman
19. Elan
20. Ryds

The boats.com International Top 20 Power List: Pre-Owned represents searches for pre-owned boat information and listings from dealers and brokers on specific boat brands.

boats.com International Power Top 20 List: Pre-Owned

1. Sunseeker
2. Fairline
3. Azimut
4. Princess
5. Sealine
6. Ocean Alexander
7. Ferretti
8. Benetti
9. Cranchi
10. Zodiac
11. Riva
12. Aprea Mare
13. Neptunus
14. Windy
15. Pershing
16. Birchwood
17. Storebro
18. Avon
19. Hershine
20. Hardy

The boats.com International Sailing Top 20 List: New illustrates real-time data representing searches for new boat information on specific boat brands. This data indicates that early participants in the boats.com website have already established a strong following.

boats.com International Sailing Top 20 List: New

1. Beneteau
2. Jeanneau
3. Lagoon
4. Laser
5. Bavaria
6. Cornish Crabbers
7. Oyster
8. X-Yachts
9. Topper
10. RS
11. Catana
12. Solaris
13. Wauquiez
14. Dufour
15. Moody
16. Arcona
17. Mystic
18. Maxi
19. Sweden Yachts
20. Dehler

The boats.com International Sailing Top 20 List: Pre-Owned represents searches for pre-owned boat information and listings from dealers and brokers on specific boat brands.

boats.Com International Sailing Top 20 List: Pre-Owned

1. Beneteau
2. Jeanneau
3. Hallberg-Rassy
4. Bavaria
5. Dufour
6. Tayana
7. Nauticat
8. Moody
9. Westerly
10. X-Yachts
11. Nautor
12. Fountaine Pajot
13. Wauquiez
14. Oyster
15. Baltic
16. Dehler
17. Sweden Yachts
18. Lagoon
19. Catana
20. Maxi

Written by: James Nolan
James Nolan is a former General Manager of YachtWorld.com and Boats.com. He has managed a number of well known companies including Autohelm, Barlow and Navtec. He has his own PR/marketing agency and writes a monthly column for Boating Business in the U.K.