Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show

I'll do my best to cover the show. The boats are packed SO tight at FLIBS, it's impossible to get good profile shots. At the very least, I'll return with media kits on anything new and will post ASAP. I'm also planning to be on the water early Tuesday morning (following the show) to get pics of all the boats departing. These will probably be the best images.

With all the work leading up to the show, i.e. the new YachtForums which will hopefully launch in the next 72 hours, I'm probably going to hide the keyboard after FLIBS and play hooky for a couple of days.

Just for grins I did a search on the size range 71-75 foot. Popped up 1 Azimut, 1 Burger, 1 Canados, 1 Fairline, 1 Ferretti, 5 Hatteras, 1 Lazzara, 2 Mochi, 2 Nordhavn, 1 NorthStar, 1 Ocean, 1 Sunseeker, and 7 Viking. Pretty good European representation. Surprised that only 2 far east yachts showed, the Nordhavn and NorthStar.

Kelly Cook

I thought NorthStar is in WA. Isn't it?

OOPS! You're right taobsu. The NorthStars look enough like the various pilothouse brands from the far east that I assumed they were in the same game. My bad!

Kelly

In the Far East category, you could also include Kingship, Cheoy Lee, Ocean Alexander, Symbol, Hargrave, Horizon, Alaskan, Johnson, Marlow, as well as Nordhavn. They should all be present at the show.

Good to know Carl. Guess they just didn't happen to have any models inside that 71-75' band that I searched. Still, I was surprised to see how many European yachts will be shown.

Kelly

To be particular, in Mainland China, there are following builders having boats at this show:

Ocean Alexander, Nordhaven, Hampton, Selene, Pama with boats from 42'-62'; and Cheoy Lee and Kingship with mega yachts.