Germans prove again that even being landlocked the country can organize a big boat show. Not only in Hamburg where you can get from Baltic sea, but also in the south of the country on the border with Switzerland. Here on the shore of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen during nine days in September one of the most interesting and big events in the world of aching takes place. INTERBOOT is an international exhibition of water sport activities.

One cannot really call INTERBOOT an exhibition: an event is dedicated not only to acts and boats, but to all water sport activities as well. Owners and producers of motor and sail yachts are coming here, regattas and races take place here along with dozens of various competitions on water.

From a surf to a cruise ship, from a rubber boat to a sailboat, from a canoe to a modern motorboat – at that show you can find everything that can be called a water vehicle.

You can find inventory, accessories, and cloths here.

More than 500 companies expose their production on this exhibition, and it is visited by more than 100 000 people mostly from Switzerland, Germany and other European countries.

In the middle of the fall when the loud rumble on the Catalan beaches abates and coastal hotels of Spain become empty something special starts in Barcelona. To the two thousand years Old Port yachts, boats and huge cruiser vessels start to arrive… Very soon horizon simply disappears.

Barcelona International Boat Show that is the real holiday for yachtsmen and those dreaming of the sea begins. This holiday often coincides with the day of the Virgin Merce that is very respected in Barcelona. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that organizers took risks having chosen this date. And this risk was paid off.

Firstly, a boat show attracts attention of more than two hundred manufacturers. Not only the companies that are somehow connected with construction or arrangement of yachts, but the real shipyards that present not a single boat. There are comparatively few novelties, but it appears to be quite enough.

Secondly, enormous number of the audience comes to the festival. Dozens of thousands of people come, fly, sail here from all over the world, some come with their own yachts. It was promoted also by a convenient positioning of the show as there are enough yachtsmen in Mediterranean Sea.

The audience of this boat show is unusual. Yes, it not the largest festival, but the organizers were never bothered by the number of visitors. Unlike the American shows where the vast majority of the audience are the representatives of middle class that would like to purchase an inexpensive and modern yacht for cruising and fishing. Barcelona International Boat Show pulls together the people passionate with the sea, dreaming of the travel around the world and keen on shipbuilding. All six days of the show one can hear specific terms, stories about sea and fishing, councils from experienced sailors and questions from the beginners.

However, being the beginner is irreproachable here. Why going to a boat show if you do not want to immerse to the world of yachting?

And there will be no problems with immersion: you can find a lot of professionals and fans who cannot imagine their life without sailing. You can participate in conferences and seminars, entertainment program, hundreds of promotions, and of course the most beautiful, big, modern and, on the contrary, historical yachts.

At the beginning of August in the southern hemisphere probably the most considerable event in the commercial sphere and on the yacht market takes place. However, Australia does not really have anybody to compete with: it is perhaps the only country in the South that can compete with Europe and the USA in standards of living and extant of interest to yachts.

The first Sydney International Boat Show takes place here in the capital of Australia for 50 years. Since 1968 it attracts several hundreds of owners, founders and simply fans of yachts at the coast. At that moment organizers couldn’t think that their modest boat show will become one of the largest over time and will attract up to 70 thousand visitors annually which is an indicator, inconceivable even for a musical festival.

The boat show takes place in the Exhibition and the Conference center of Sydney in Darling Harbour bay. These three platforms are counted to accommodate different audience. Nevertheless, you will be able to visit each of them if you want.

Darling Harbor is perhaps the most interesting of them. In Cockle Bay Marina there is more than 28 thousand square meters that can accommodate thousands of boats. The part of a pier is expanded especially for the large yachts as more than 300 boats can be placed here effortlessly. Six halls with exhibition stands await audience ashore.

You will find novelties from the renown manufacturers at the Sydney boat show. Among them there are Australian as well as American and European companies. You can see yacht novelties, various systems and equipment, accessories  that are connected in one or another way with yachting among the show exhibits.

The audience will please you as well as among them there are a lot of the richest people from all over the world that also include our compatriots living abroad as well as tourists. Statistically, about 80% of festival visitors do a purchase or an order, or are ready to make it. Deals are often made directly on show.

Sydney International Boat Show is famous around the world as in the last five years Sydney is overflowed with tourists. Finding a place in a hotel or at the pierce will not be easy if you came here independently despite developed infrastructure for tourists. If you are aimed to visit an exhibition, think about your reservation some months prior to the show.

Sydney International Boat Show is a festival for those who is in love with the sea, yachts and travel. This is a place to meet professionals and fans.

In the latter half of September on the Atlantic coast in La Rochelle a unique exhibition focusing on multi-nozzle boats takes place. Trimarans and catamarans are at the very heart of the exhibition, but there are more marine items presented there. The owner of such a special boat may be interested in novelties in the areas of shipbuilding technologies and navigation equipment, design, and even fashion.

More than a hundred thousand square meters yearly is fulfilled with exhibitions of leading French, Ger-man, British, American, Chinese producers and companies from more than 30 countries. More than 300 vehicles are placed on water: yachts, motorboats, boats, that are fitted with engines and sails, with two or several corpus, cruising, racing and recreational vessels.

Grand Pavois de la Rochelle is the place where people that are in love with catamarans meet. Here you can find unusual «flip-flops», practical vessels and legendary boats.

Despite the specificity of the exhibition it became famous and internationally recognized. By 2002 the quantity of visitors reached 100 000. You can become one of this visitors next year.

Three days boat shows not always allow you to see everything that is presented at the exhibition and visit every event available. Those who would like to have time to step onboard of every novelty and test chosen boats should necessarily visit PSP Southampton Boat Show.

Traditionally festival in Southampton takes place in the second decade of September and lasts nine days. The biggest show in Great Britain is located on hundreds of thousands square meters and offers visitors hundreds of possibilities to evaluate, choose and buy a yacht or a boat as well as various entertainments and events.

Most of the objects, predominantly novelties, at PSP Southampton Boat Show are offered by British shipbuilders. You can find luxury yachts and motorboats for beginners as well as more professional devices.

Exhibition is intended not only for representatives of business environment. For sure here the owners of shipyards, senior engineers and designers socially meet, but the most of the visitors are future and fellow sportsmen.

You can discuss any issue directly with the producers, perform test-drive, and just relax.

The program of the festival is very intensive. Very often regattas and races, competitions, leisure time are organized. Everyone who wants can sail.

Only 100 kilometers from Miami, to the North from the Bahamas you will find a small cozy town where tens of thousands of yachtsmen, fishermen and simply fans of motorized and sailing vessels gather annually in the end of March.

They are not attracted by huge snow-white beaches of Florida or long and narrow as the river water barrier between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach that will allow even the biggest yacht to pass. They are attracted by a an interesting event. Show as Americans say.

But Palm Beach International Boat Show has not a lot in common with a regular exhibition. Yes, you will have to look around attentively and will not be able to stop for a minute to bypass all  the venue which occupies the area of thirty football fields only on the land by the way. Here you will find almost one thousand of different boats: from inflatable boats that are tiny in comparison with the show scale to luxury super yachts.

Palm Beach Boat Show is a festival where the professionals can meet, business sharks can negotiate. It is also a large-scale entertaining platform for you, your wife and children. However, the family can always be sent away to the nearest beach, to the sculpture park of West Palm Beach or to the one of the Florida shopping centers.

Just saying…

In 2015 the festival celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. It is not a lot for the human, but a very mature age for an exhibition. The celebration passed in the regular mode. However, it did not deprive the participants and the audience of festive mood. All the forty thousand people that came here from the 26th to the 29th of March and that increased the population of Palm Beach in almost one and a half times could plunge into the world of voyages, fishing and luxury accessories. More than one thousand boats were presented here in this anniversary year, and that is not the limit.

All aboard!

Open the map, specify West Palm Beach destination in your navigation system, and start your engine. You can be sure that neither the travel itself nor its final point will disappoint you.

The venue of a boat festival is traditionally divided into several compartments where yachts, motor, inflatable, fishing boats and accessories are placed. Exhibition stands are located at each platform. If the size allows vehicles are located on the land, if not – on the water. Organizers pay attention to ordinary participants who would like to brag of  their «treasures” as yachtsmen are able to exhibit (and meanwhile to moor) their boats at a separate platform.

Choose yourself what to look for. Show is visited regularly by owners and manufacturers of hundred-feet yachts, the fastest, the most expensive and the most modern vehicles are coming here yearly, every March the latest systems capable to upgrade almost any boat are presented here.

Everyone gets what he wants!

Everyone can find what he looks for here: on a boat show you will find what to do. TBeginners can choose the perfect boat on his skills and budget. Experienced yachtsman will share experience, will show oneself and will look at others, will find the new equipment.

High-speed vehicles adjoin here cruisers ships, cruise ships adjoin fishing boats, sailing yachts that are the perfect copies of the ships from era of great geographical discoveries adjoin ultramodern made from composite, with two or three motors and intellectual control systems, and inflatable boats adjoin mega yachts. Everyone will find an interesting vehicle and an interesting company for oneself.

The boat show in Palm Beach has interwove into itself about dozens of corporate, professional, scientific and semi-scientific events. Conferences and buffet receptions “for those in the club”, master classes and concerts are held annually.

Start your engine, straighten sails, book plane tickets if you have not buy the boat capable to cross the ocean yet, and come to the show. You will definitely not be bored.

You can come from a February blizzard under the hot sun of Florida without any special reason. But there is a special occasion as here, in Miami, in the middle of February the most large-scale, the most fantastic and interesting boat show in the world takes place.

Miami International Boat Show is a rather big event not only for the American seafarers: people come here from all over the world to see the novelties, to estimate the last technologies, to enjoy the design of super yachts and, of course, to exchange experience in yachting.

Recently, show show expanded to three platforms at a time. Two of them are in the center of Miami, and the third is in Miami Beach. However, the localization of show can change as everything depends on the program and number of exhibitors. And there are really a lot of them.

Exhibition accommodates more than two thousand participants from the large companies showing new models of yachts and boats to the handymen that create almost handmade boats and bring their “treasures” here. Besides 3000 yachts, motorboats and boats that find a place at the show’s venue, one can see a huge amount of systems, equipment, and accessories here.

For those who dream about the sea

Book your tickets, rent a room in a hotel, and come or sail on your charter boat to Miami where you will be able to steep to the world of yachting!

Miami International Boat Show is the first show that should be visited if you are going to buy the yacht. Here you will see boats of the type that you like in person, estimate their sizes,  understand how various types of boats are different, and how the real cruise, sports or fishing yacht looks like.

Perhaps, it is here where you will make the main purchase of your life: this exhibition is created not simply for experience exchange but also for making deals, taking orders, and establishing connections with manufacturers that will allow to design an exclusive yacht in close collaboration.

You don’t need to call the broker every time, to come to the pierce with the yacht, to spend time and money searching for the best as at Miami International Boat Show you will be able to go aboard of any boat and to choose your lucky yacht within one or two days!

For those who made their dream come true

If you have already bought a yacht and went on several cruises Miami International Boat Show is one of places that should be visited in the first place. Start your engine, straighten sails and start your journey!

Here on the east coast of America that is not far from the paradise islands of Bahamas you will find dozens of thousands of adherents, thousands of yachts, and perhaps as much unique ideas for modernization of your boat awaiting for you.

Miami International Boat Show is not simply an exhibition. You will hardly be able to just look through exhibits and to discuss advantages and shortcomings of the next novelty of “Atlantic Yachts» pretending an expert. Even the experienced person who is in love in the sea will find more interesting things to do. The lucky ones who own the reflex cameras will be able to participate in competition of the yacht photo, professionals will succeed by all means tutoring   an audience in the conference room, and the fans of hunting the real shark with a rod will learn a lot at the fishing master class.

Manufacturers can fit surprisingly well in such an intense program. Presentations and exhibits are countless. Eighty countries annually send their representatives to Miami, and everyone tries to show his best. Do you know so many brands?

Miami International Boat Show is a truly American show in the purely American style. And it was created for Americans as about 80% of the audience and participants are those who don’t need to cross the ocean to plunge into the atmosphere of a holiday. But to be fair, this event remains the one of the most significant boat show in the world.

What did the organizers of the Miami International boat show do right?

Organizers of The Yacht & Brokerage Show in Miami Beach has proved that it is worth to carry out a boat show in February. In their opinion this time that is not so hot and humid it is possible to receive the closest attention from the yachtsmen and all those who only takes the first step on the way to the sea. There is nothing to be surprised about as annually the experts of Show Management, that is the largest and the most successful organizer of the show in the world, bring people together in Miami Beach. You will not be disappointed trusting them as hundreds of the manufacturers have not been disappointed already.

Every year about 3000 super yachts, motorboats, and boats of every type, appointment, and size are presented at the exhibition in Miami Beach. The equipment with the cumulative cost of about one billion dollars is presented at the show. And this was counted without taking an account the equipment, accessories, and “sea” clothes.

The Yacht & Brokerage Show is different from the other American boat show that aim primarily to present technical and design novelties or new yachts. Here you will find a huge number of vehicles that have already been in use, and therefore are on sale at lower prices.

This place is worth visiting if you plan to buy the yacht from the broker but you don’t want to spend time searching for the best option. Here you will be able to come aboard of each boat you like, and to try it out before signing documents. You will spend the minimum of your time (not more than five days) on a festival visit, and you will get an excellent opportunity to have some rest, to communicate with interesting people and to choose the best boat.

Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show is one of the largest yacht exhibitions in the world. It is carried out in the first days off November in Fort Lauderdale (Florida) yearly. Representatives of most manufacturers in the world come here. More than 1500 companies present to attention of the audience novelties in the world of motor and sailing yachts annually. The cumulative cost of the production presented here exceeds 3 billion dollars, and it is only taking into account yachts, equipment and accessories of exhibitors.

FLIBS is considered to be the most renown exhibition. The southern Florida annually attracts attention of the whole world: people come here from other states of the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia. And Fort Lauderdale became the capital of the yacht industry: even outside of the exhibition in the city everything is devoted to navigation and tourist business. Finding hotel here would not be difficult.

At Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS) millions of admirers, and tens of thousands of yachting fans arrive here to see super yachts, boats, sailing vehicles created this year. Many of them will become happy owners of these yachts.

It is difficult to allocate one direction prevailing at this exhibition: on show it is possible to find practically any vehicle affordable to the ordinary buyer. It not only small motor yachts that are very popular in the USA, but also magnificent mega yachts, and small sailing vessels, fishing boats, and catamarans.

FLIBS is one of the oldest exhibitions in the world. Since 1976 it is carried out in Florida, occupying the huge venue of about 3 million square foots. Almost every year this area is gradually expanded, and the number of participants and visitors increases. The territory of an exhibition is divided into six pavilions, each of which is devoted to certain kinds of boats.
Ginn sur Mer company is organizing the show. Association of the sea industry of the Southern Florida contributes to the event as well.

On FLIBS you will be able to see:

1. Boats of all types: from magnificent yachts to light small-capacity boats, from motorized vessels to canoes;
   2. Engines, electronics and various systems for yachts and boats;
   3. Accessories and equipment.

Show lasts five days. During this time it is not so simple to manage seeing each exhibit. However, you can find what you are interested in effortlessly: venue is divided into thematic sites. Convenient navigation and the thought-over ways of pass will help you to understand quickly where is what.

Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show gives opportunity to any manufacturer somehow connected with the yacht industry to show the production to consumers and potential partners. Deals of the century are made at the show, you can choose and buy the yacht here: all at once or after a while after contacting the manufacturer directly. Large contracts are also signed here. But a commercial and advertising component is not the only and predominating. First of all FLIBS is an entertaining show with the program that gives opportunity to have a perfect rest, see the last novelties of the yacht industry and of course to communicate on “sailing” subjects. This exhibition gives a complete idea of recent trends in yacht craftsmanship.

You can come here by feet or with your own yacht: in Fort Lauderdale you will settle with convenience anyway. It is possible to come to show with children for whom organizers suggest some discounts, but the pets (dogs, first of all) will have to stay at home or in hotel.

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