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With midweek entry reduced to a tenner, I thought I'd check out which cruising yacht manufacturers were attending this years London show. The answer?



Arbor
Cornish Crabber
Feeling
Hanse
Jeanneau
Ovni
Saare
Southerly


That's your lot folk's

Don't want to knock the London show as I'd love it to succeed but unless the manufacturers start to support the event it will surely die on its backside. People aren't going to travel to the capital just to step aboard 2-3 boats, and what is the point of attending to compare marques when there's nothing to compare?

I know people hate the venue and fondly reminisce all things Earls Court, but now even the manufacturers seem to have thrown in the towel, which is sad dont you think?
 
I'd already decided not to go as there were so few boats. I'd missed the Feeling but spotted that Jeanneau was power and not sail. The latest "Sailing Boat" exhibitor list still doesn't make me feel that I'm missing much.

Misc. tenders & dinghies incl. Hobie's + misc. Portabotes 8,10,12 + CRIB 12

Small/trailable sizes:
Arbor 26
Cornish Crabber 26, Shrimper 19
Drascombe Lugger
Macgregor 26M

I spotted a few more larger yachts though:
Bavaria Vision 42, Cruiser 33
Dehler 41 & 35sq
Gunfleet 43 (listed twice)
Grand Soleil 43 Performance Cruiser
J/70 Sportsboat, J/80 Sportsboat, J/97 Racer / Cruiser, J/111 Sportsboat
Fountaine Pajot Mahe 36 Evolution
Dragonfly 28 Swing Wing trimaran
Southerly 420 & 47
Oyster 625
Dufour 375 (Pure Latitude)
Saare 41ac
Beneteau Oceanis 34

The exhibitor listing didn't look too short until I spotted multiple entries for some companies (name variation, Power, Sail, UK, International etc.). Some others in Sailing boat category only seemed to list powerboats.

e.g.
Essex Boatyards: Fairline Targa 38 GT Fairline Squadron 42 Fairline Targa 50 GT Fairline Squadron 50 Fairline Targa 62 Fairline Squadron 60 Fairline Squadron 65 Fairline Squadron 78 Custom

Sessa Marine: Fly 40, C38, C35, C32, Key Largo 34 IB, Key Largo 27 IB & Key Largo 24 OB. Chris Craft: Launch 20, Corsair 22, Corsair 25, Corsair 28 & Corsair 32. Bayliner: 170 OB, 175GT, 85, 195, NEW 642 Cuddy, 702 & 802. CooperYacht: 745 & 800

W Bates & Son: Sessa Marine: Fly 40, C38, C35, C32 Key Largo 34 IB, Key Largo 27 IB & Key Largo 24 OB Chris Craft: Corsair 32, Corsair 28, Corsair 25, Corsair 22 & Launch 20 Bayliner: 170, 175GT, 185, 195, NEW 645, 702 & 802 CooperYacht: Cooper 745 & Cooper 745

Not many "Sailing Boats" in that last lot.
 
We can get to Paris in about the same time and a lot cheaper, thank you FlyBe, so will visiting that one in 2013.
 
As another poster said on a previous tread on this subject the UK does not need two International Boat Shows. For better access for people in the north the NEC would be a possibility, but Southampton suits me fine. The last two LIBS have been a dissapointment.
 
Camelia said:
We can get to Paris in about the same time and a lot cheaper, thank you FlyBe, so will visiting that one in 2013.
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I have opted for Dusseldorf - not that more expensive than flying to London City from Scotland. Lots more sailing boats, also managed free entry! Using my Hilton points for the hotel next to the showground so overall a great deal!
 
The timing of Excel is good as it helps post Christmas holiday blues. I look forward to browsing around AWB sailing boats and touching bits of shiney metal in the swindlery's. I was disappointed with 2011 and 2012 was simply dreadful. I will not go in 2013.

I have been considering the purchase of a new AWB but the price escalation in recent years has been staggering. This is without the additional burden of the manufacturer attending LIDS. The boat I should have bought just a few years ago is now well and truly beyond my reach.
 
Absolutely agree with the sentiment that it helps rid the post Christmas blues. I find the January return to work is the toughest of all so I shall go to Excel.
If it is shrinking and fewer manufacturers exhibiting, perhaps we could return to the halcyon days of Earls Court?

The next big step after the Boat Show will be 2nd February, when we stick it up they English at yer Twickkers

May my optimism never diminish.
 
I do not think that the move from earls court to excel has anything to do with it
If firms do not want exhibit at excel then they would not do so at earls court either
I suspect that there are fewer firms in the industry of the sort that made up all the small stalls at earls court & they clearly do not see the need to exhibit
The products that chandlers sell is the same for every chandler & people can buy almost anything anywhere
Earls court would never be the same if the LBS was moved back there
I suspetc that excel is far easier for exhibitors to deliver goods such as yachts for show & far easier for logistics
I doubt that in the economic climate that there will be enough sales to justify a show presence for the big yacht manufacturers
Paris & Duseldorf have probably developed in exactly the same way that excel has
I am going because i want to meet some of the contributors to the " my Hanse" forum on 19th . Otherwise I would not bother
 
Christopher, my ageing wellington.
The combination of the thought of your attractive young wife wearing the weeds of widowhood and your obscenely abnormal height are what prevents me from taking the pains of assaulting you in the most malicious and deadly manner.

Ok?
 
Aye, but there is a logic. We can either all suffer from the SAD syndrome, take vitamin D or find something to look forward to
The OP thought that the Boat Show was a good apres Christmas event, with which I agree, i added that watching Scotland stuff England on 2/2/13 will also be a tonic. That Scurrilous ChristineE fiddled with my post, i responded in what I felt was the only way open to me - ra threat o'violence.
Given that he's a sooth coaster an I'm not, an given that he's 8'6"- i think it was the way to go.
 
Camelia said:
We can get to Paris in about the same time and a lot cheaper, thank you FlyBe, so will visiting that one in 2013.
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I went this year, and posted a link to my photos on Photobucket. Lots of boats there. I still have a few chandlery items I need to get, so might go to Excel if current dose of man flu has given up by then.
 
Actually, UXB, One thinks...

uxb said:
Homer says yer a trouble maker ...
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...that Claymore has a secret stash of videos of those Scottish Widow tv ads from a while back, and keeps re-runing them.
The Lady was classy, right up there with Caroline Munro of Lambs Navy Rum fame, who married a Lord(or was it a Laird???)- perhaps it was her, in later mode, having 'seen orf' the Lord/Laird thru overtaxing his body?

Meanwhile, correcting Fred Drift, we went to Excel 1 & 3, and never since-disappointing- so SIBS and the Gothenberg Boat and Fishing show are about it now:)
 
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