Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you very much. (Operator Instructions) James Hardiman with FTN Equity Capital Markets, your line is open.
James Hardiman - FTN Equity Capital Markets
Good morning.
Dustan McCoy
Good morning, James.
James Hardiman - FTN Equity Capital Markets
Couple of questions for you guys and just to make sure I'm 100% clear here. Obviously 21 weeks of inventories is unbelievable improvement versus what we saw last year and great accomplishment. So obviously from a seasonal perspective, you're still going to want to sell down both and tend into the end of the year. But it sounds like you're saying as early as the first quarter you're going to look to shift inline with what you're seeing going out of retail, is that pretty accurate?
Dustan McCoy
That's pretty accurate.
James Hardiman - FTN Equity Capital Markets
Okay. And then just in terms of your production, obviously you've scaled back pretty meaningfully and once you start to ship inline with the retail, sales should go up predominantly. Where you stand today in terms of how quickly you could get your production back up, in other words, what from a boat segment standpoint can we expect to see given sort of reasonable levels of retail sales next year and how quickly can ramp back up?
Dustan McCoy
James, we believe if the market were to go flat next year, the amount we would have the increased production would be 85% plus and our judgment is we would likely not be able to meet all market demand, if the market were to go flat. And the reason we wouldn't be able to is, we're going to start back up matching production to sales and encouraging our dealers to match orders with as best they can, consumer sales or for smaller boats are stocking that they're absolutely comfortable that they can move.
And then if the market were to begin to full hard, it will be hard for us to match flat market next year. And now going forward, as we gear back up from bring people back on in the facilities we have, we're quite comfortable that we can serve a marine market and using U.S. units as a proxy for them, the global marine market.
We can serve a market that's in excess of 200,000 units even with all of the footprint reductions we've made and cost take out we've achieved.
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