Lake Forest, IL: boats.com has announced its manufacturers' rankings for August based on the most popular consumer searches by brand for new and pre-owned boats on boats.com, the marine industry's number one online marketplace.

The boats.com Top 20 list is published monthly and reflects traffic data on all manufacturers and models available on boats.com. In addition, boats.com also produces a separate International Top 20 each month in order to better represent the international marketplace, including only non-U.S. brands in the results.

On the boats.com Power Top 20 List, New: Bayliner, Sea Ray and Boston Whaler remain in 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions respectively, with Wellcraft (4th) and Tracker (5th) rounding out the top 5. Crestliner has moved up 4 positions into 7th place. Re-entries into the top 20 for August: Mako (9th place), Carver (14th), Grady White (16th), Trophy (17th) Tiara (18th) and Larson (19th).

On the boats.com Power Top 20 List, Pre-Owned: No change in the top 5 positions, Sea Ray remains in 1st place, Bayliner in 2nd, Carver in 3rd, Wellcraft in 4th and Chris-Craft in 5th place. Boston Whaler moves up 3 places into 7th and Bertram up 3 spots into 10th place. Luhrs re-enters in the 20th position.

On the boats.com Sailing Top 20 List, New: Beneteau remains in 1st place with Hinckley 2nd while Hunter regains 3rd place. Topper moves up 9 places into 8th with Leopard entering the Sailing Top 20 New in 20th place.

The boats.com Sailing Top 20 List, Pre-Owned: Catalina remains in 1st place with Hunter 2nd and Beneteau 3rd. Pearson is in 4th place and C&C in 5th round out the top five.

In its ongoing campaign to grow boating, boats.com properties are expanding at a market leading pace. Current and potential boat owners visiting the boats.com properties view more than 45 million pages of boat listings, specifications and content related to boating every month. 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. Bayliner
2. Sea Ray
3. Boston Whaler
4. Wellcraft
5. Tracker
6. Tahoe
7. Crestliner
8. Four Winns
9. Mako
10. Lund
11. Baja
12. Sunseeker
13. Caravelle
14. Carver
15. Lowe
16. Grady White
17. Trophy
18. Tiara
19. Larson
20. Chaparral

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. This data is driven by the presence of dealers and brokers in the market place.

boats.com Power Top 20 List: Pre-Owned

1. Sea Ray
2. Bayliner
3. Carver
4. Wellcraft
5. Chris-Craft
6. Silverton
7. Boston Whaler
8. Regal
9. Grady White
10. Bertram
11. Maxum
12. Four Winns
13. Baja
14. Trojan
15. Chaparral
16. Hatteras
17. Cruisers
18. Formula
19. Larson
20. Luhrs

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. Hinckley
3. Hunter
4. Jeanneau
5. Cornish Crabbers
6. Laser
7. Bavaria
8. Topper
9. X-Yachts
10. World Cat
11. Northshore
12. American Sail
13. Tayana
14. Lagoon
15. Dufour
16. CNB
17. Corsair
18. Oyster
19. Island Packet
20. Leopard

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. This data is driven by the presence of dealers and brokers in the marketplace.

boats.com Sailing Top 20 List: Pre-Owned

1. Catalina
2. Hunter
3. Beneteau
4. Pearson
5. C&C
6. J Boats
7. CAL
8. Morgan
9. Irwin
10. Ericson
11. Tartan
12. O'Day
13. Cape Dory
14. Columbia
15. Islander
16. Jeanneau
17. Bristol
18. Cheoy Lee
19. Pacific Seacraft
20. Macgregor

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.