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Cannes Yachting Festival: the arrival map, 28 August
The Vieux Port opens the autumn order book. First-time buyers and brokers crowd the 20-40m class before Monaco closes the deals upstream.
Cannes Yachting Festival·Mid-SeptemberThe signal Europe's biggest on-water boat show opens the autumn yacht-market season. The order book for the 20-40m class is set here, two weeks before Monaco closes the deals upstream. Cannes sells the mid-size production fleet, Monaco sells the rest.
The fleet More than 600 boats will occupy the Vieux Port. This is the production-yacht market en masse, not the custom-shipyard showcase. Expect the 20-40m class to dominate the quayside and the brokerage pens.
The crowd First-time yacht buyers graduating upward are the primary footfall. Brokers and production-yacht dealers attend in volume. This is a working market, not a social calendar stop.
The logistics The festival runs from 8 September in the Vieux Port, Cannes. Arrivals are by yacht or jet. Plan berthing and slot requests now, as the port fills before the Monaco leg begins.
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with GetYourGuideThe festival fills the Vieux Port, the same harbour the Lérins ferries leave from.
- Ferry to Sainte-Marguerite IslandA short crossing from the Port of Cannes to the Royal Fort and the Man in the Iron Mask’s cell.Check dates
- Boat from Cannes to Saint-Tropez and backAlong the Estérel coast by sea, with the afternoon in the port.Check dates
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Cannes Yachting Festival
Europe’s biggest on-water boat show opens the autumn yacht-market season: 600+ boats in the Vieux Port, two weeks before Monaco closes the deals upstream.
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