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FREE Detroit Boat Show Tickets!

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Not going to join our crew and come to the Miami Boat Show? Then you might as well score some free tickets to the Detroit Boat Show, complements of Mike’s Marine!

Miami Boat Show Electronics Focus Group – $50!

Not signed up for the Miami Boat Show emails? Well, you should be! We just got a nice run down of events and new opportunities in our inbox:

Participate in Our Navigation Electronics Focus Group — $50 Incentive Help marine manufacturers shape the future of navigation electronics! Sign up now to take part in an [...]

Editorial – How Brokers and Boat Shows are Missing The Boat

Brokers, listen up, this post is for YOU! We KNOW the following:

Online content is more important than ever. Boat shows help generate leads. Buyers are doing more and more research about the boats they look at before coming to shows. Traffic at sites, such as YachtWorld, goes up prior to boat shows.

Given all [...]

Helping out with MJM at the Chicago Show

He isn't QUITE up to blazer status, but on his way!

To further round out the First Mate repertoire, I think this is the second or third time we have loaned some help for booths at shows. When you get FMYC Booth help, you get someone who has learned your boat. By learned, I mean memorized every piece of information we can find on it from [...]

“Rockin it” at the Formula Booth

Candace Boss of Dry Harbour tells us about how much traffic Formula has received at the show! They had half their booth filled with people willing to wait in line! Looked like a rollercoaster line! With 8 boats at the show, Formula had one of the largest single manufacturer footprints. Also, the 45 was in [...]

Hello Chicago

Moving the cart o' gear before the show (no carpet down yet!

After a few days of prep work, the 81st Annual Chicago Boat, RV, and Outdoors show kicked off today at 2pm. The event is taking place at McCormick Plaza in Chicago, and is taking up all of hall B and the garage area for the RVs. The focus here is definitely on smaller boats, 15-45 [...]

2011 Boat Shows and Events

It may be cold in Michigan, but our schedule is certainly filling up quick for the remainder of the boat show season. We will be at all of the following WARM events:

The Chicago Boat and RV Show is January 12-16th (okay, not quite warm, but it is indoors!). The [...]

Sunseeker to Unveil 115′ at London Boat Show

Hey, we will not be there (unless someone from across the pond wants to pick up our travel expenses), but the Sunseeker display at the London Boat Show sounds like it would be worth checking out. (HT: Diane Byrne)

Further underscoring its commitment to the megayacht market, Sunseeker will officially unveil the Predator 115 at [...]

Yachting Magazine steps up to host their own show(case).

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Word on the docks at the Fort Lauderdale Show was that you needn’t wait till St. Petersburg to get your boat show fix again, as Yachting Magazine would be hosting an event in Palm Beach. Yachting Magazine started the event, with a more intimate setting, only 500 people invited.

Hosted at the beautiful new [...]

Boat Show Homework! #flibs

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So while we are at boat shows, we do more than checking out booth girls and attending swanky parties. We stop at a lot of booths and ask the pros about any and all questions we might have.

While we have done our homework on working on teak, it is always good to stop by [...]