Southampton, UK: boats.com, Inc. announced its March 2003 rankings of boat manufacturers that are based on the most popular consumer searches by brand, new and pre-owned, on boats.com, the leisure marine industry's number one online market-place. 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 Power Top 20 List: New - Zodiac move into 1st with Sunseeker in 2nd and Azimut in 3rd place respectively with Birchwood and Princess rounding out the top 5 in that order. Ranieri enter in 16th while Ryds re-enters at 20.

On the boats.com Power Top 20 list: Pre-Owned - Sunseeker remain in 1st with Fairline 2nd, Princess 3rd, Azimut 4th and Sealine 5th. Aprea Mare moves up 4 places into 10th place while Avon re-enters in 13th.

On the boats.com Sailing Top 20 List: New - Beneteau and Jeanneau hold on to 1st and 2nd place with Cornish Crabber moving up into 3rd, Northshore in 4th and Bavaria in 5th place round out the top five.

On the boats.com Sailing Top 20 List: Pre-Owned: Beneteau and Jeanneau remain in 1st and 2nd while Hallberg-Rassy moves up nine places into 3rd. Hans Christian is the big mover reentering in 7th place.

In its ongoing campaign to grow boating, boats.com properties are expanding at a market leading pace. Potential boat owners and participants visiting the boats.com properties monthly view 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 Top 20 lists. 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 market place.

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

boats.Com Power Top 20 List: New

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

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

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

The boats.com 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 Sailing Top 20 List: New

1. Beneteau
2. Jeanneau
3. Cornish Crabber
4. Northshore
5. Bavaria
6. Tayana
7. Lagoon
8. Laser
9. X-Yachts
10. Dufour
11. Catana
12. RS
13. Oyster
14. Topper
15. CNB
16. Solaris
17. Wauquiez
18. Farr
19. Mystic
20. Maxi

The boats.com 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 Sailing Top 20 List: Pre-Owned

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

About boats.com, Inc.

boats.com, Inc. provides marketing services to OEM's, dealers, brokers and service companies throughout the global recreational marine industry. The company provides an unmatched level of consumer access to information, boat listings, accessories and financial and insurance products. With more than 80,000 new and used boat listings from over 5,000 brokers and dealers, boats.com, Inc. is the largest concentration of recreational marine industry marketing in the world.

boats.com represents the manufacturers of over 90% of all new boats in the U.S, along with new and used boat listings from dealers and brokers and an ever growing international presence. boats.com has received the exclusive Internet endorsement of the NMMA and MRAA.

YachtWorld, since 1995, has been the premier channel for yacht brokers to list and sell boats over the Internet. With listings from more than 105 countries, YachtWorld is an integral part of the global brokerage community.

Contact:
James Nolan
boats.com, Inc

P: 202 265 6303

F: 202 478 1740
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Ian Atkins
boats.com, Europe
P: 44 1329 227663

F: 44 1329 227544
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