The big center console market will continue to develop during the fall and winter boat show season this year and it might even be deemed rock-solid now that veteran builder Regulator Marine is introducing a 41-footer.

“This is a milestone period of time for us,” Joan Maxwell, president of the Edenton, N.C., company, told Soundings on Wednesday after a sea trial of Regulator’s new flagship. “This puts us in the same market as the other big guns.”