London Boat Show Preview

The London International Boat Show starts from the 9th and goes on till the 18th of January. The show returns to its fairly new ExCeL venue, and celebrates 55 years of bringing boating to the nation's capital. England's second international boat show will show hundreds of fascinating boats on display, from historic replica vessels to the latest in marine technology. With over 500 exhibitors showcasing power and sail boats, dinghies, deck equipment, charter holidays, sailing courses and more. Announced premiere novelties are Sunseeker 30 Metre Yacht and 74 Predator, Princess third version of the V42, Fairline new 70 Squadron, and the latest Beneteau 47 Montecarlo which makes its second presentation here in London after its first showing in December during the Paris boat show.

This 2009 edition was the last one PowerYacht previewed, as the show became more of a National thing with Southampton boat show becoming the major International British boat show in the noughties as the size of the major British boat and yacht builders expanded beyond eighty foot in that decade.

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The London Boat Show was held from 1955 to 2018, in three different location over the years; Olympia, Earls Court from 1959 to 2003, and from 2004 at Excel. The London boat show expanded quickly in its second edition doubling in size and a 39 foot as the biggest yacht on show.  In 1959 the show moves about one mile to South East at Earls Court, a move which will prove to be a lucky one for 45 years.  For nearly half a century Earls Court was the home of the British production builders, bringing so much success to the show and themselves from the eighties onward.  British boat builders starting building bigger yachts and at the beginning of the noughties started asking for bigger spaces.  Enters the third move for the London boat show in 2004 moving ten miles to the east and by the Royal Victoria Dock to accommodate large eighty foot plus super yachts.  The London Boat Show will mark its last edition in 2018, with the show starting a downhill spiral from the 2009 Great Recession which it never recovered from.

London Boat Show 1955