SUPERYACHT #11
Winter 2007
Article selected from our quarterly magazine dedicated to the largest
and most luxurious boats with information, interviews, technical
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Article by
Fabio Petrone
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16th MONACO YACHT SHOW
THE SHOW
Facts indicate that Luc Pettavino's decision to organize and
dedicate Monaco's Yacht Show exclusively to super yachts has
paid off. This tiny sovereignty's yacht exhibition has in a
short while asserted itself as the focal point of this nautical
world, the only one in fact, capable of concentrating large and
often enormous yachts together. As many as 95 boats this year
were exhibited by 77 shipyards before a selected
clientèle in the suggestive surroundings of Port
d'Ercule with at least 60 of them measuring in between 40 and
90 metres in length. Entrance was on invitation or, by no means
for everyone's pocket, at 50 euros. A whole world rotated around
the boats, or rather, the super yachts; from simple tenders to
all kinds of more complex engineering devices, for service or
harbour use, from upholstery to engines and so on. In short from
a screw to a helicopter.
It must be said though that the venue in Monaco with its
partying lavishness, whether liked or disliked, but also with
its history of elite yachting, is probably the best setting to
display these yachts which together with their technology,
furnishings and price truly represent exclusiveness under every
aspect. It should not have been of surprise therefore to see
jewellers' and watch makers' stands or outstanding cars and
other precious items on target with the type of customers that
go for the yacht show.
The 16th edition of the Monaco Yacht Show also drew to it, being
so specialised, luxurious and technical, a host of people in
the business such as surveyors, technicians, journalists,
specialized magazines such as "Superyacht" which was, naturally,
there too with its own stand, as well as designers, nautical
architects and engineers. Many of the specialists were
frequently visited in their own stands, where they portrayed
their ideas and drawings giving their visitors a view of
proposals, trends and solutions for yachts of the future.
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