2023 Palm Beach Boat Show

I've heard the same thing. My guess is some sort of conflict with Palm Harbor and Show Management. Which sucks because at least you could get into and out of those slips easily with the wicked current there.

Could it be an indication of consolidation? The foot print of the in-water Miami show was reduced.

Are you saying that the show will be smaller then in the past years? Or ?

Agreed. A large concentration of this nation's wealth is located across the intracoastal.

A bit off subject, where is the best place to park at the show? Coming from Cape Canaveral. Looking at a couple of Hatteras that will be on display, but also looking at a river boat for ICW - Chris Craft. 130ft and above is too big. LOL
Rich

There are several multi-level parking garages located one block north of Clematis and immediately west of Flagler Drive. Flagler is essentially Main Street for the boat show. It’s a very short walk to the show entrance from these garages, maybe 1-3 blocks. There is also on-street metered parking as well as parking lots to the north and south of the show but these spaces fill-up fast. If everything is full downtown, use the CityPlace parking garage and take a shuttle or taxi to the waterfront.

Thanks Carl. Great information, I plan on getting their Friday before the show opens.

For the past several years the sentiment in the brokerage community seems to be that the Palm Beach Show is the premier show in North America, generating the most leads/sales.

Just went through the registration process for media credentials which is no different than getting a consumer ticket. Be aware of two things:

1) You cannot buy tickets at the show. They are only available online.

2) The amount of personal information being collected by the show promoter is invasive. You may be asked to show your QR code when entering a booth or visiting a vendor. You have the option of refusal. Probably best to exercise it.

My take from opening day of PBBS:

The weather was glorious and who doesn't love a boat show!

Of particular note:

The show was noticeably smaller geographically due to the Palm Harbor debacle whatever that was about.

Traffic going to the show was so noticeably light, that not only did a get a close-up parking spot, but I was worried something was amiss. And then I laughed as I realized traffic is reason enough NOT to go to Miami Boat Show. However, decent dock traffic but no lines to get on any boat nor Imelda Marcos collection of transom shoes.

HUGE complaint: there weren't any boat show directories. Show Management needs to find another way to save money. Don't talk to me about being green when you have zillions of horsepower in any angle of view. Don't ask me to look at my phone to find a boat's location on their website. Even that didn't work. I tried finding 2 builders and 4 boats in particular and in spite of numerous trips to the Service Desks (??), neither they nor I could find the boats nor builders, not by name of vessel, brokerage company, nor builder name. I could not find the 6 boats that I came to see without numerous calls to the person I was meeting onboard. And of course frequently they were with clients and not jumping to take phone calls.

I resent using battery power to find boats and to keep looking at my phone for where I wanted to go. No room for frustration - boat shows are supposed to be fun, even if work ;-).

And if I want to spend time online - I prefer YF, our online boat show!

Enjoy!