The 47th edition of the Cannes Yachting Festival – the inaugural event of the sailing season and Europe’s largest in-water boat show – is back from 10 to 15 September 2024, at the heart of the French Riviera.
From the Vieux Port to Port Canto, the show, which benefits from a new marina covering 2,000 m2, will bring together the best of what the international boating sector offers and feature more than 160 new products and world previews. With 600 exhibitors from all over the world presenting almost 700 monohull, multihull, rigid, semi-rigid, new or previously owned sail, and motor boats from 5 to 50 metres long, alongside a host of the latest-generation equipment, the Cannes Yachting Festival is the unmissable event for yachting.
A NEW CONFIGURATION TO SHOWCASE THE 700 BOATS PRESENTED
A great new feature this year: Port Canto, with its new Marina dedicated to Power Boats, will almost equal the Vieux Port in terms of the number of boats on display. In fact almost 350 boats will be exhibited on each side of the Croisette. For the first time, visitors will be able to go all the way round Port Canto, in a +/- 2.5 km loop. The port will offer an even clearer and simplified tour with virtually a quay, or a large area, dedicated to a type of boat. Located between the Sailing and Yacht Brokerage & Toys areas that have been accommodated in Port Canto for several years, the new area dedicated to power boats will cover around 2,000 m² and provide more than 300 m of linear quayside to present 170 motor boats (140 in-water and thirty ashore), with rigid or semirigid hulls. A selection of outboard engines suitable for these boat sizes will also be presented next to the boats.
Port Canto will also be exhibiting 120 new sailboats over 10 metres long and around 50 previously-owned large yachts from 24 metres long, exhibited respectively in the Sailing and Yacht Brokerage areas. Several traversantes (pontoons with a motorised central part) will enable visitors to go from one area to the other and small motor boats to go out for sea trials from time to time. The new Power Boat Marina will accommodate a new dining area with almost 130 tables with a view looking out at the boats on display. The new VIP Club, located on the roof of the Harbour Master’s Office and furnished by Roche Bobois, French manufacturer of high-end furniture and loyal partner of the exhibition, will give visitors a 180-degree view of all of Port Canto, one of the most beautiful views of the exhibition! Almost 60 exhibitors will be present in the Power Boat Marina.
The list can be seen HERE.
