Due to the unprecedented spike in the birthrate after World War II, the next decade or so after the war was called the “baby boom.”
It could be that the boating industry someday will view the years starting with the COVID pandemic and immediately after as America’s “boating boom” due to the unprecedented numbers of newly minted boats and boaters that were an offshoot of the upheaval caused by the virus and the attempts to bring it under control. The boating boom has resulted in a surge in Great Lakes boating and fishing, as well.
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