NMMA named its leaders for 2027 and 2028 in a release dated Friday, October 9. Brunswick's Aine Denari will chair the board. On Wednesday, October 14, NMMA announced a brand new show: the Discover Boating DTX Boat Show in Dallas, March 18 to 21, 2027.

Yamaha's Power Into Fall event runs through Monday, December 14. Buyers get six years of coverage on new four-strokes from 30 to 350 horsepower, and seven years on the 425 and 450. Dealers get up to $600 in credit. Our take: the fine print, a build date back to January 2019, matters more to dealers than the headline number.

Also this week: Yamaha's DockPoint joystick for single-outboard pontoons, two new Regulator dealers in Florida, and a new president at Denison Yachting.

We close in Louisiana, where crews pulled two more abandoned boats out of the Terrebonne Basin.

Hosted by Jon Logan. Sponsored by Marine Diagnostic Tools. Narration produced with an AI voice clone of Jon Logan.

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• (00:00:00) - Intro
• (00:00:43) - NMMA's new leadership and a Dallas boat show
• (00:02:00) - Yamaha Power Into Fall
• (00:03:34) - Yamaha DockPoint Pontoon
• (00:04:11) - Regulator adds Florida dealers
• (00:04:33) - Denison Yachting's new president
• (00:04:59) - Marine Diagnostic Tools sponsor message
• (00:05:22) - Abandoned boats in Terrebonne Parish
• (00:06:07) - Sign-off

The Conference Board's September consumer confidence index fell 6.7 points to 81.9. For the third month running, people said they expect the next six months to be worse. Plans to buy a car and plans to buy a home both slipped.

Then Boats Group published something harder to shake off. They pulled ownership records on more than 2.5 million boats across four states and found about 637,000 repeat owners. Across all four states, only 6 to 13 percent bought the same brand again. Nine out of ten people who already own one of your boats go somewhere else for the second one.

Also this week: Brunswick named three more senior leaders. Two of them fill the seats Aine Denari leaves when she becomes CEO on January 1st, and the third fills the one Will Sangster vacates. IBEX opens Tuesday in Tampa, and MDT will be there.

We close in northeast Texas, where TowBoatUS announced a new port on Lake Fork.

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• (00:00:00) - Intro
• (00:00:40) - Consumer confidence falls in September
• (00:01:59) - Boat buyers rarely stay loyal to brands
• (00:03:26) - Service as the key to repeat sales
• (00:03:45) - Brunswick fills three executive seats
• (00:04:43) - IBEX 2025 preview in Tampa
• (00:05:38) - Marine Diagnostic Tools sponsor message
• (00:06:08) - New Towboat US location on Lake Fork
• (00:07:01) - Sign-off

Who is running this industry, and what they know how to build.

Brunswick named Aine Denari its next CEO. She takes over January 1st. She ran Brunswick Boat Group from 2020 to 2024, and since then she has run Navico Group, the batteries, digital switching, fishing electronics, and components business, while holding the chief technology officer title. Before Brunswick she spent twenty years in automotive and consulting, including six at ZF leading their driver-assist electronics business.

Before that, an executive order with a deadline in it. On September 17th the President signed EO 14430. Four federal offices have until October 17th to start rolling back regulations that, in the order's words, overly burden boaters, anglers, and outdoor businesses.

Then a Shanghai software company bringing a single-system helm to IBEX, Michigan's first Vita electric research boat, Galati putting boat offers on an online platform, and Malco folding the Presta Marine line into its own name.

We close with Elmer Carl Kiekhaefer, who started Mercury, going into a new Wisconsin hall of fame.

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• (00:00:00) - Intro and Headlines
• (00:00:53) - Federal Executive Order on Boating Regulations
• (00:02:00) - Brunswick Names New CEO
• (00:03:00) - What the CEO Pick Means for Shops
• (00:03:31) - Sponsor: Marine Diagnostic Tools
• (00:04:23) - Chinese Software Company's Intelligent Helm System
• (00:04:57) - Michigan's First Electric Boat and Innovation Center
• (00:06:01) - Galati Yacht Sales Launches Online Offer Platform
• (00:06:35) - Malco Rebrands Presta Marine
• (00:07:04) - Mercury Founder Inducted into Hall of Fame
• (00:07:33) - Wrap Up and Sign Off