Fort Lauderdale, Florida the Yachting Capital of the World arrives into its 67th International boat show edition in 2026, to be held from October 28 up to November one. Fort Lauderdale is the largest floating water show since a few years and for the 66th is very upbeat, coming from the record success of recent editions which had over 100,000 plus of visitors, over one thousand brands, and 1300 plus of boats and yachts. As in some years the 2026 edition is divided into seven show locations; the Broward County Convention Centre, Bahia Mar Yachting Centre, Hall Of Fame Marina, Las Olas Marina, 17th Street Yacht Basin, Pier 66 Marina, and Superyacht Village at Pier 66 South which together will cover an area of over three million square foot. As is with Fort Lauderdale the show offers a wide variety of boats and sea vessels from runabouts, sport fisherman, high performance boats, centre consoles, cabin cruisers, flats boats, skiffs, express cruisers, sailing yachts, motor yachts, bowriders, catamarans, ski boats, jet boats, trawlers, inflatables, canoes, and superyachts. The Fort Lauderdale Boat show will feature the following World premiers; Cruisers 45 VTC and 45 VTC EC, Deep Impact 409 Sport, Formula 360 Super Sport Crossover, Front Runner 55 Catamaran, Galeon 570 Sky, Hanover 327, Hatteras 77, Hinckley Yachts 41, Horizon PC68A, Hunt Yachts 56, Monterey Elite 340B, Nordhavn 46 Mk.II, Ocean Alexander 40P, Pearl 100, Princess C48, Schaefer V34, Solara S-310 Coupe, Tiara 35 LS, Valhalla 46 Sport Yacht, Viking 50 Sport Coupe and 64 Sport Coupe and 70 Convertible.
Fort Lauderdale boat show debuted in 1959, the first edition was organized by a group of Florida boat builders and dealers as a free to enter voluntary organized exhibition at the new Lauderdale Marina with only thirteen boats on show. Fort Lauderdale though rapidly expanded in its second year doubling exhibitors and visitors, and in its tenth year anniversary it received over 50,000 visitors with a 53 foot as its largest yacht on display. By 1971 Fort Lauderdale boat show had 115 exhibitors and recorded one million US$ in vessel sales. In 1974 its makes important changes from moving to Bahia Mar which is till today the current home, and updates its dates from Summer to the mid-Fall which still mark the calendar today. In the 1990's Fort Lauderdale boat show becomes the USA primary large yacht show and starts adding additional locations, with two hundred yachts above fifty foot in the water by 1996. In the sixtieth 2019 Fort Lauderdale edition, the boat show will add its latest seventh location with the new Superyacht Village which will feature ten yachts over sixty meters in length. Fort Lauderdale was one of the few boat shows which was organized even during the 2020 and 21 pandemic years.
1963 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show
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