September 4, 2024

Cannes 2024 Boat Show Preview

Europe's fall boat shows start with the most important to the World, Europe and the Mediterranean sea exhibition, the Festival de la Plaisance of Cannes.  The 2024 Cannes boat show addition starts on Tuesday tenth and ends Sunday fifteen September. Cannes is a unique venue located in one of the yachting meccas of the world, the Cote d'Azur offering the opportunity to preview new models by many respected European builders with yacht owners and buyers from countries around the world gathering in this show to see the latest models in the Mediterranean play ground of the "Old" Port and the large yacht area in Port Pierre Canto, for this reason the boat is referred to as the Yachting Festival, because it does represent a Festival of Boating. The 2024 Cannes boat show celebrates its 46th edition continuing a trend for a favourite place where glamour and luxury meet.  In 2024, the Cannes Yachting Festival will present a new area dedicated to new motor boats for sizes up to thirteen metres long, which is located in Port Canto, between the Sailing and Yacht Brokerage and Toys areas.  Last year numbers showed 55000 visitors, 705 boats in water, and 610 exhibitors from all round the globe. Cannes 2024 novelties are the following; Absolute Navetta 53 and Navetta 70, Apreamare 38 Cabin, Azimut Fly 62 and Seadeck 7, Baia 84 Atlantica, Beneteau Swift Trawler 54, Canados Gladiator 571 Blade, Columbus 43m Atlantique, Cranchi Sessantadue and 67 Corsa, Ferretti 670 and Infynito 80 and Custom Line Navetta 38, Fiart P52, Filippetti F100, FIM 500 Regina, Focus Power 3X, Nimbus 495 Flybridge, Ocean King Doge 400, Otam 90 GTS, Pardo GT75, Patrone 45, Pearl 82, Prestige F5.7, Princess S65 and S80, Rio Le Mans 45 and Le Mans 50, Sanlorenzo SL86A and SP92, Santasevera 52, Sessa F60, Sirena 48 Coupe, Solaris Power 60 Open, Sunseeker Predator 55, Swan Arrow 23.20m, and probably some more which are not yet announced.
The Cannes boat show debuted in 1977, with the event starting as a rather obscure exhibition, becoming more successful over the years, and since the noughties is one of the most important boat shows in the World.  From the nineties, Cannes started to grow, with some of the Italian yacht builders helping in shaping the event as they started to preview World first of some models at the show.  An important show in this respect was the seventeenth 1994 edition which was a turn around event, as Cannes expanded its spaces.  In the noughties the show also added Port Canto to its Vieux Port exhibition spaces.  Port Canto debuted first as an area for super yachts and then in 2018 it became the sailing yachts area.  The Cannes Boat Show was cancelled in the 2020 and 2021 COVID years.
1994 edition of the Cannes Yachting Festival

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