Interactive Look at Boats Registered by Hailing Port

This post continues our series on Boat Data Analytics, in which we previously examined trends and correlations between boat sales and other industries. Today we’ll share the data from boat registration records that we have analyzed from different perspectives.

We’ll start with the hailing ports – the name of the port that you usually see under the boat’s name.

We analyzed the data from the 240,930 registration records of all U.S. recreational boats bigger than 30 feet.

Here is an interactive map of this data that you can apply various filters to, both for the hailing ports list and the hailing states map:

To further analyze this data, we narrowed the scope and looked at three categories: 30-50 feet, 50-100 feet, and 100+ feet.

In the 30-50-foot group, the port with the highest relative number of small boats is Baltimore – 93.61% of its boats are from 30-50 feet. The port with relatively the lowest is Newport, with only 72.56%.

The leader of 50-100-foot category is Palm Beach, with 35.23% of all of its boats falling into this length. Annapolis has the lowest number with only 6.80%.

In the superyacht category, Palm Beach is the leader with 1.90% of its yachts being longer than 100 feet.