As the Sail, Power and Watersports Show heads happily towards this year’s finishing line this evening, the organisers are already declaring the show a fabulous success with record attendance and record sales being reported by Managing Director, James Brooke.
“There has been an overwhelmingly positive response from exhibitors and visitors alike and as a result, we will be back next year and are delighted to announce the dates for 2009 are 25 – 29 November.”
The Earls Court Boat Auction has been extremely popular with 100 boats up for auction throughout the show.
Daily registering and bidding on the boatbid auction pod at stand H90 starts every day at 1000 and closes at 1700. Each day there are 20 boats up for auction, ranging from small family cruisers to a mock Spanish galleon.
There’s even a British America’s Cup (GBR70), which raced in New Zealand in 2002, up for grabs tomorrow afternoon.
Author Tom Cunliffe is at the show today launching the new National historic ships database of skills and materials.
This new database is aimed at those who need to track down traditional materials or find skilled craftsmen to carry out restoration work on traditional craft.
Win a half price holiday in Minorca Sailing Holiday’s twice daily draw.
Specialising in top class dinghy sailing and windsurfing holidays, this Minorca-based centre based on the picturesque Bay of Fornells, is running a competition from its stand to win a half price holiday from 7 August for one week.
The figures are stacking up well at the Sail, Power & Watersports Show at Earls Court
Things are looking relatively rosy for the marine industry exhibitors at the Sail, Power & Watersports Show with a number of sales being announced at Earls Court today. The overall mood is looking decidedly positive with sales recorded in most sectors.
Eric Brossier, the French geophysicist and yachtsman who made Polar history when he made the first uninterrupted circumnavigation of the North Pole by yacht, was in London yesterday.
Brossier and his family, who live on their 47ft yacht Vagabond, visited the Sail, Power & Watersports Show yesterday while in transit from Norway to Poland.
The opening day of the 2008 Sail Power and Watersports Show has been deemed a huge success by the exhibitors, and visitors to the show today.
The day kicked off at 10:00 with the Royal Marines providing visitors with a fine display of abseiling as they shimmied down the face of Earls Court. Katie Derham, ITV newsreader and presenter, was then joined on stage for the official show opening by some well-known names from the world of sail, power and watersports including James Brooke, the show’s managing director, Geoff Holt the quadriplegic record-breaking yachtsman, Steve Curtis, eight times Class 1 powerboat world champion, and Jack Moule, the 14 year old UK jet ski freestyle champion. Nick Bonham, auctioneer extraordinaire, launched the world’s biggest boat auction with boatbid.com
Hundreds of visitors turned up at the opening of the Sail, Power and Watersports Show this morning to watch the Commando Display Team abseil off the roof down the front of building.
The team of six under the command of Captain Yapp shimmied down the face of Earls Court within seconds and then headed in the show to prepare for their next venture.
In the wake of the Chancellor’s VAT reduction announcement yesterday, James Brooke, the Managing Director of the Sail, Power & Watersports Show which opens tomorrow Wednesday 26th November, is confident that this is absolutely the right move as far as his Show exhibitors are concerned and exhibitors have, in turn, been quick to praise the move.
This Wednesday the Earls Court Boat Show opens and, according to its organisers, it provides an opportunity for both consumers and exhibitors to overcome the credit crunch and help keep the marine business healthy. This year's theme focuses on affordability; a necessity in the current economic climate according to Managing Director James Brooke who says it has "positioned exhibitors in a new landscape".
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