The policy adopted by the
world’s most important Yacht
Show dedicated to superyachts
aims to be more selective when
it comes to visiting parties.
Less room therefore to plainly
curious visitors and gates wide
open to those genuinely inter-
ested. It works.
The sole visible and irretrievably “contained” thing about the
Principauté de Monaco is the territory’s surface area: those two
square kilometres which make it the second smallest sovereign
state in the world after the Vatican. The outcome is a sort of
compression which inevitably makes you think about physical
phenomena where in infinitesimal volumes, you find impressive
awesome energy. In the case in point this energy can be gauged
first by the size of its economic/financial power and prowess.
Therefore considering the brief distance separating our hotel
from Port Hercule, the density of dream cars seen has no equal
anywhere else in the world: Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Paganis,
Aston Martins, Rolls Royces, McLarens and so forth seem to
parade in a whirlwind. We then proceed to walk through the
elegant Yacht Club to look at the calm waters hosting the 27th
edition of the Yacht Show. In the two hundred thousand or so
square metres of protected waters dominated by “Jubilee” a
110 metre built by Oceanco from Holland for Qatar’s Sovereign,
there are 125 yachts exhibited representing more than 3.3 bil-
lion Euro. Then we should consider visiting parties, taking a clos-
er look you soon realize they have very little in common with
those present in many other yacht shows around the world. This
time too in fact the organizing party led by Gaëlle Tallarida de-
cided to implement several steps to select the quality of visiting
parties. The first, perhaps the most obvious was ‘upgrade’ the
prices of tickets. On line daily tickets were sold at 160 Euro and
650 Euro for the whole duration of the event. There were also
for the more discerning yachtsmen programmes called Sapphire
Experience and Monaco Yacht Summit. The first of the two was
open to a small group made up of just 160 people defined as
“ultra-qualified” who were invited to enjoy a made to measure
stay in Monte Carlo with private visits on board. The second
which also proved a notable success in the course of the pre-
vious edition of the MYS in 2016 was made up of several sym-
posiums and workshops, with about fifty guests comprising first
time potential buyers and charter party clients on one side and
on the other a number of experts in the segment.
Therefore in a nutshell there were two well founded initiatives
headed in very diverse directions: one solely dedicated to ex-
pert owners, the other for new entries. Thus if the first initiative
featured a purely ‘business like’ approach the second was com-
prehensively formative in view of the fact that today’s buyers
are always more directly involved in the project work of their
superyachts, with commercial contacts for a variety of different
things.
Consequently if in Monaco accessories go well beyond what’s
termed as being usual, for that is the norm, we can find helicop-
ters, submarines, sea-planes, and a whole range of fun water
games. The latest entry at this 2017 edition was a whole new