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Short-Term Borrowings and Long-Term Debt
9 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Short-Term Borrowings and Long-Term Debt
10.
SHORT-TERM BORROWINGS AND LONG-TERM DEBT:

 

Short-term Borrowings

In July 2023, we executed the Amended Credit Facility with Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company ("M&T Bank") as Administrative Agent, Swingline Lender, and Issuing Bank, Wells Fargo Commercial Distribution Finance, LLC, as Floor Plan Agent, and the lenders party thereto (the “Amended Credit Facility”). The Amended Credit Facility provides the Company short-term borrowing in the form of a line of credit with asset-based borrowing availability (the "Floor Plan") of up to $950 million and establishes a revolving credit facility in the maximum amount of $100 million (including a $20 million swingline facility and a $20 million letter of credit sublimit). The Amended Credit Facility also provides long-term debt in the form of a delayed draw term loan facility to finance the acquisition of IGY Marinas in the maximum amount of $400 million, and a $100 million delayed draw mortgage loan facility. The maturity of each of the facilities is August 2027. As of June 30, 2025, our available borrowings under the delayed draw mortgage loan facility were approximately $63 million, and our available borrowings under the revolving credit facility were approximately $86 million.

The interest rate is (a) for amounts outstanding under the Floor Plan, 3.45% above the one month secured term rate as administered by the CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (“SOFR”), (b) for amounts outstanding under the revolving credit facility or the term loan facility, a range of 1.50% to 2.0%, depending on the total net leverage ratio, above the one month, three month, or six month term SOFR rate, and (c) for amounts outstanding under the mortgage loan facility, 2.20% above the one month, three month, or six month term SOFR rate. The alternate base rate with a margin is available for amounts outstanding under the revolving credit, term, and mortgage loan facilities and the Euro Interbank Offered Rate plus a margin is available for borrowings in Euro or other currencies other than dollars under the revolving credit facility.

The Amended Credit Agreement has certain financial covenants as specified in the agreement. The covenants include provisions that our leverage ratio must not exceed 3.35 to 1.0 and that our consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio must be greater than 1.10 to 1.0. As of June 30, 2025, we were in compliance with all covenants under the Amended Credit Agreement. The Amended Credit Agreement is secured by the Company’s personal property assets, including inventory and related accounts receivable. The mortgage loans will also be secured by the real estate pledged as collateral for such loans.

As of June 30, 2025, our outstanding short-term borrowings under the Floor Plan associated with financing our inventory and working capital needs totaled approximately $735.2 million. As of June 30, 2025, our short-term borrowings, which solely consisted of the Floor Plan, included unamortized debt issuance costs of approximately $0.9 million. As of June 30, 2024, our indebtedness associated with financing our inventory and working capital needs totaled approximately $701.2 million and included unamortized debt issuance costs of approximately $1.4 million.

As of June 30, 2025 and 2024, the interest rate on the outstanding short-term borrowings, which solely consisted of the Floor Plan, was approximately 7.8% and 8.8%, respectively. As of June 30, 2025, our additional Floor Plan available borrowings under our Amended Credit Facility were approximately $1.6 million based upon the outstanding borrowing base availability (Floor Plan). As of June 30, 2025, no amounts were withdrawn on the revolving credit facility and $36.5 million was outstanding on the delayed draw mortgage loan facility. As of June 30, 2025, we had approximately $14 million in letters of credit that reduced the available borrowings under the revolving credit facility.

As is common in our industry, we receive interest assistance directly from boat manufacturers, including Brunswick. The interest assistance programs vary by manufacturer, but generally include periods of free financing or reduced interest rate programs. The interest assistance may be paid directly to us or our lender depending on the arrangements the manufacturer has established. We classify interest assistance received from manufacturers as a reduction of inventory cost and related cost of sales.

The availability and costs of borrowed funds can adversely affect our ability to obtain adequate boat inventory and the holding costs of that inventory as well as the ability and willingness of our customers to finance boat purchases. However, we rely on our Amended Credit Agreement to purchase our inventory of boats. The aging of our inventory limits our borrowing capacity as defined curtailments reduce the allowable advance rate as our inventory ages. Our access to funds under our Amended Credit Agreement also depends upon the ability of our lenders to meet their funding commitments, particularly if they experience shortages of capital, experience excessive volumes of borrowing requests from others during a short period of time or otherwise experience liquidity issues of their own as other lending institutions have recently experienced. Unfavorable economic conditions, weak consumer spending, turmoil in the credit markets, and lender difficulties, among other potential reasons, could interfere with our ability to utilize our Amended Credit Agreement to fund our operations. Any inability to utilize our Amended Credit Agreement could require us to seek other sources of funding to repay amounts outstanding under the credit agreements or replace or supplement our credit agreements, which may not be possible at all or under commercially reasonable terms.

Similarly, decreases in the availability of credit and increases in the cost of credit adversely affect the ability of our customers to purchase boats from us and thereby adversely affect our ability to sell our products and impact the profitability of our finance and insurance activities.

 

Long-term Debt

The below table summarizes the Company's long-term debt.

 

 

June 30, 2025

 

 

September 30, 2024

 

 

 

(Amounts in thousands)

 

Mortgage facility payable to Flagship Bank bearing interest at 6.50% (prime minus 100 basis points with a floor of 2.00%). Requires monthly principal and interest payments with a balloon payment due August 2027.

 

$

5,039

 

 

$

5,411

 

Mortgage facility payable to Seacoast National Bank bearing interest at 6.58% (SOFR plus 220 basis points). Requires monthly interest payments for the first year and then monthly principal and interest payments with a balloon payment due September 2031.

 

 

14,360

 

 

 

15,378

 

Mortgage facility payable to Hancock Whitney Bank bearing interest at 6.88% (prime minus 62.5 basis points with a floor of 2.25%). Requires monthly principal and interest payments with a balloon payment due November 2027. 50% of the outstanding borrowings are hedged with an interest rate swap contract with a fixed rate of 3.20%.

 

 

19,931

 

 

 

21,366

 

Mortgage facility payable to M&T Bank bearing interest at 6.53% (SOFR plus 220 basis points). Requires quarterly principal and interest payments. Facility matures in August 2027.

 

 

36,540

 

 

 

 

Term loan payable to M&T Bank bearing interest at 5.82%. Requires quarterly principal and interest payments. Facility matures in August 2027.

 

 

325,000

 

 

 

347,500

 

Loan payable to TRANSPORT S.a.s di Taula Vittorio & C. bearing interest at 5.84%. Requires quarterly principal and interest payments. Facility matures in December 2030.

 

 

1,393

 

 

 

1,531

 

Total long-term debt

 

 

402,263

 

 

 

391,186

 

Less: current portion

 

 

(35,593

)

 

 

(33,766

)

Less: unamortized portion of debt issuance costs

 

 

(1,600

)

 

 

(1,514

)

Long-term debt, net current portion and unamortized debt issuance costs

 

$

365,070

 

 

$

355,906