The Palm Beach International Boat Show starts today and runs through this Sunday. This is a big event for South Florida. It takes place along Flagler Drive in downtown West Palm Beach, right on the Intercoastal Waterway and directly across from Palm Beach, where I suspect most of their target market lives. An article I read said that there would be over 100 superyachts on display this year. However, I looked at the preliminary "In-Water Boat List" on the show's official website and was surprised to see that well over 200 superyachts, ranging in size from 80 to 260 feet, could be there this year. The website says that it will be up to the exhibitor whether visitors will be allowed on these vessels, and so I have my doubts whether many, if any, will be open to the general public. The website says to contact the exhibitor if you have a serious interest in one of those yachts and book an appointment. Sounds like a plan to me. All I need to do is rent a yachting outfit, hopefully with epaulets, show up at the gangplank of the 242-foot Casino Royale (which has a James Bond theme) and, as they say, Bob's your uncle. I'll let you know how it goes. And by the way, I took the photograph above in Palm Beach yesterday afternoon. I imagine that many of the Palm Beach crowd will be looking to trade in those old, outdated yachts in the photograph above for something way more suitable. God bless them one and all.
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