Margaret Hall was loaded wall to wall
with all kinds of boats, all shapes and
all sizes, sailboats, cabin cruisers
and the ever popular bass boats,
even with the increase in gas prices,
people were buying.
One dealer reported people will go
boating even if they have to bicycle to
the lake to do it.
But as one dealer said, this is really
the first year that we've seen
a tremendous trend towards a smaller
mass. But maybe it's a
trendy situation.
You know, people are buying smaller cars,
a little diesel cars or the road
trying to get into.
And I believe that possibly we
might see buyers must go to find old
people who have traded in the big family
car for a smaller one are changing
their watercraft to the
larger boats with the with the bigger
engines on them, or are
really about
three times heavier than the
aluminum and the ladder boats.
And it because it's a great problem
of towing, especially on gas consumption,
you'll use probably
twice as much gas
towing a big boat as you will with a
smaller but a ladder.
But most dealers contact to
report an increase in sales over last
year, which backs up the theory no matter
how bad the economy Texans will
take to the lakes on the weekends and in
their spare time, but they may
do it a little closer to home.
The IT Action News Outdoors Dallas.