• The Valencian boat show celebrates its last day tomorrow
• Exhibitors have a good feeling about the show
• Exhibition and sale of boats, engines, accessories and nautical services, and a full schedule of activities for all audiences.

The Valencia Boat Show, Valencia’s international boat show, today attracted 9243 visitors on the penultimate day of the event. The sunny weather and the weekend have undoubtedly been an added attraction to visit the boat show, which has had a full schedule of activities.

Good feelings among exhibitors
Exhibitors are satisfied with the quality of the visits, which have increased notably with the improvement in the weather today, Saturday. ‘There are people interested, especially in dinghies, outboards and sailboats,’ says Antonio Gadea, director of Sport Nautic, the company that distributes Beneteau, Excess, Kattum Yachts, Solaris and Tiburón. ‘The strongest customer at the moment is the outboard boat customer from 7 to 9 metres in length, as well as small sailboats’, comments Gadea, who has also pointed out the presence of visitors from Murcia and foreign residents in Alicante.

For his part, Ricardo Bosch, from Marina Estrella, present with Hanse, Azimut and Ryck boats, was equally satisfied ‘because many of the people we were expecting have come. We have worked hard’.

‘We have had clients from Madrid, Seville and other places outside the Valencian Community. We always end up happy, although afterwards we will see, because the results of the shows are known after a month’, said Juan Manuel Endrino, from Náutica AZA, which is presenting a large display of Jeanneau boats as well as two Bali catamarans, among others.

Navaltec is another of the regular exhibitors at the event, presenting QuickSilver and Bayliner boats and Mercury engines, among others. Its CEO, Jorge de Haro, commented: ‘I found the event to be very well organised, it worked very well. Visually and operationally it was very good, but the weather didn’t help. Today, Saturday, was a very good day. Clients came from all over Spain, from Cádiz, from the north and from Madrid. We have made contacts and some of them could be interesting’.

Pascual Fornés, from Náutica Fornés, Karnic’s distributor, commented that ‘we have had some contacts, which we think are good, and we will put them to work after the show’.

Some of the exhibitors at this year’s Valencia Boat Show are offering alternatives to increase the attractiveness of their customers’ purchases. This is the case of Alfredo Pérez, from SetSail, importer of Maxus sailboats, who, as he explains, is developing ‘a sailing club option, in which the client can access a new sailboat, one or two years old, with a personalised training programme and at a very competitive price, because our real interest is to spread the brand’.

Kumbra, Maxim, Cleemens and Dufour Catamarans make their debut in Valencia
This edition of the Valencian boat show has seen the launch of several brands of boats such as Kumbra Yachts, Dufour Catamarans, Cleemens Yachts and Maxim Yachts.

Dufour Catamarans, a brand born in 2019, presents for the first time in Spain its two sailing units by the hand of its new distributor The Nautic Club. ‘We have had many visitors, and we have the door open to everyone because it is a product that is not so well known, we want to show it and explain the brand,’ says Juan Bustos, business manager of the company.

Marc Forné, sales and development director of Maxim Yachts, a brand that was presented last June and which is coming to Valencia for the first time, is also positive about its presence at the event. ‘Although the weather has been a bit contradictory and has made it difficult for us, we have had visitors and we have a good feeling, especially today, Saturday, there are quite a lot of people’, he said.

After its world premiere just a few months ago at the Cannes boat show, Kumbra Yachts is presenting its Kumbra 34 in Valencia, which has been a great success with visitors.

‘We are very happy. The first day it rained and it was quieter. But since then it has been full, especially today, Saturday, with many people interested. We have a space where we can be seen well and we are making contacts with distributors, professionals and end customers from the Balearic Islands, the Valencian Community and foreigners who come to the area to spend their holidays. We are happy,’ says Víctor Moure, the young CEO of the company.

Tomorrow the Valencia Boat Show will celebrate its last day with a full schedule of free activities for everyone.

More information at: www.valenciaboat.com