What It's Like To Go To The Fort Lauderdale Boat Show

Hi, I'm Nettie Berkeley with HMY Yacht Sales, and we are at the 2017 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. I'm excited to be at the 2017 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show with HMY. Incredible event, thousands of boats on display here. We've got our staff covering a lot of different displays. I've been with HMY for 20 years. This is my 23rd Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. I'm extremely excited. We have over 40 boats in our brokerage display. We have our new Princess lineup, our cruisers lineup. We also have our Viking Yachts lineup and our brand new premiere of the Okian lineup. World premiere from Brazil, incredible transforming yacht, big side decks, three beautiful cabins down below. A boat that you have to see while you're here at the Fort Lauderdale Show. So there's a lot of product and a lot of exciting new things happening here at HMY's display. My name is Kieran Haslam. I'm the Marketing Director for Princess Yachts. We're really excited to have this display because we've got a couple of premieres. We've got the 62 Flybridge and the S60, which is the first time that these boats are ever being seen. The V40 is perhaps one of the most important ones. It's a thrill and an adrenaline rush to be aboard it. We have our worldwide debut of the 42 Cantius. And then we also have another Fort Lauderdale debut, the 50 Cantius. So you actually have a U-shaped seating from the cockpit area into the salon area. The galley's to the port side. The helm station is on the starboard side. And then you have forward visibility adjacent to that as well. Accommodation's level, two stateroom, two head. The heads both feature stall showers. Staterooms both feature queen-sized berths. I'm most excited about the new 93-foot motor yacht. That is the second motor yacht we've designed in recent memory. It is absolutely stunning boat. The 93 motor yacht has a large aft deck and wet bar. The stunning interior. It is a pass-through galley, so it has a much bigger feel than 93 feet. It feels like it's a 120-foot boat when you're standing there looking at it. It's the only motor yacht that I've seen that actually has an enclosed flybridge with a day head and a sky roof. So it gives you the feeling of an open bridge or an enclosed bridge boat. Full beam master stateroom and just a tremendous layout. I can't wait for my dad to buy a new Viking boat. We just had a christening on my good friend and client's boat, The Challenger. It's a brand new 2018 52 Viking. It's hull number 25. Owner Brian DeVries and his lovely girlfriend Barb got to build the boat of their dreams. The whole experience was very organized. We went to the factory to see the boat in progress. When it got to HMY, they just don't drop the ball. It's been wonderful. Every year seems to surprise me more and more with the amount of people and the traffic that the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show brings and also the quality of buyers that the HMY display brings. We are outside the 2010 190 Trinity Yacht Skyfall. This week has been extremely successful. We're very excited about a lot of things happening. Thank you all for joining us at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. The enthusiasm has been spectacular and I think this is going to be a pretty epic boat show for our industry. And I'm happy to be a part of it.