As for amenities, Snider points out that even small boats are going deluxe. People are expecting more. They want as much on the smaller boats as people are getting on the bigger ones. Snider says within the last two years, he's seen hot tubs installed in boats. You take the cushions out and there's a hot tub.
People can open up the hatch and look out to the sky while sitting in their hot tub.
Microwave ovens, expensive Bose speakers and other luxury items are becoming increasingly common. Pleasure comes to those aboard the flat-bottomed pontoons as well. Sometimes referred to as a party boat because they can hold an average 12 people and offer plenty of comfortable seating and a relaxed cruising speed, pontoons are riding high on the popularity wave this season. Krupa's Hardcastle already has experienced a terrific pontoon year, due in part to the early spring. The whole family can get on and you don't have to take turns, says Hardcastle, who says that pontoons are the minivans of boats.