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Review: Monaco Yacht Show 2021

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This yr’s Monaco Yacht Show noticed 19,000 guests, a big drop from the final version of over 31,000 two years in the past in 2019. The four-day occasion in September additionally noticed a drop in yachts featured. There have been 101 yachts in comparison with 125 in 2019.

Yachts proven ranged from Bluegame’s new BG72 to the 108m Benetti IJE. New options to the present additionally included invitation-only Wednesday, customer badge classes, a crusing yacht part and the Yacht Design & Innovation Hub.

Journey restrictions and well being laws are potential causes for the drop in attendance for this yr’s present. The organisers have mentioned that they had anticipated a discount in numbers for this yr. The target of this yr’s yacht present was to lower the variety of guests and emphasise on particular profiles and bridge connections between exhibitors and their focused clientele.

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Theo Hooning, Secretary Basic of SYBAss (Superyacht Builders Affiliation), mentioned: “This was the primary alternative to see the outcomes of a change in strategy to the present, by putting the main focus firmly on the shoppers of the business somewhat than the enterprise actions inside it. The end result was a extra relaxed ambiance. With no overcrowding of the quays, the expertise for these clients was way more consistent with the superyacht expertise itself.”

The adjustments to the present adopted suggestions from exhibitors that started forward of the cancellation of final yr’s version, with present organiser Informa creating an advisory Steering Committee made up of decision-makers from the yachting business.

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On the day earlier than the present, the Monaco Yacht Summit featured 60 house owners, charterers, and future patrons. Contributors had the chance to speak to designers, brokers, and builders about yacht building, chartering or buying yachts.

The Monaco Yacht Present opened with the aforementioned invitation-only day on Wednesday, with 300 friends invited by the organisers. Targets included yacht house owners and future yacht patrons and charterers and so they got a extra unique expertise in addition to entry to the Dockside Space.

The Yacht Design & Innovation Hub was additionally created to supply guests an understanding of a customized yacht’s building course of. It featured lectures by yacht designers Espen Øino, Winch Design, Sam Sorgiovanni, Sinot Yacht Structure and Design, and Luiz De Basto Designs.

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Superyachts featured embody the 95m Lürssen Kismet, the 94m Feadship Viva, and the 92m Nobiskrug Tatoosh have been the subsequent longest yachts on the show. The Nobiskrug Artefact and Bilgin Tatiana, each 80m, have been additionally amongst 14 superyachts over 70m.

The new 65m Zazou was amongst 5 Benettis on present, and Damen Yachting premiered its 55m Time Off.

Azimut superyachts included its new 38m flagship Grande Trideck, Ferretti Group’s four-strong show featured the second Pershing 140, whereas seven Sunseeker builds embody the yard’s new 90 Ocean, amongst 5 yachts exhibited by Sunseeker Monaco. 

Burgess, Camper & Nicholsons, Fraser and Northrop & Johnson have been among the many main world brokerage homes, who represented virtually 60 per cent of yachts on show. The brand new crusing space featured a dozen yachts, starting from a Sunreef 80 crusing catamaran, Double Happiness, to the 54.3m Shenandoah of Sark in-built 1902 and exhibited by Fraser, whereas the Swan 120 was amongst world premieres. 

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The whole value of superyachts on show have been estimated to be value round €3.6 billion. Gaëlle Tallarida, Basic Director of the Monaco Yacht Present, mentioned: “We labored alongside stakeholders from throughout the business to placed on a present that meets their expectations and, extra particularly, these of their clientele.”

“The 2021 MYS seems to have benefited from the thrill spurred by this reunion, in addition to from the beneficial state of the market, with a rise in yacht gross sales during the last 18 months. Purchasers have turned to yachting to flee the gloomy context that the pandemic has caused and the frustration of getting their freedom restricted.”

“Subsequently, 2021 has been a win-win for everybody concerned in yachting. Because of the Steering Committee based this yr, we intend to pursue our collaboration to additional enhance the MYS for the 2022 version.” 

The following version of the Monaco Yacht Present has been scheduled for September 28 2022 – October 1 2022.

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