27th MONACO YACHT SHOW FEW BUT GOOD ONES OR RATHER, EXCELLENT ONES

The sole visible and irretrievably “contained” thing about the Principauté de Monaco is the territory’s surface area: those two square kilometres which make it the second smallest sovereign state in the world after the Vatican. The outcome is a sort of compression which inevitably makes you think about physical phenomena where in infinitesimal volumes, you find impressive awesome energy. In the case in point this energy can be gauged first by the size of its economic/financial power and prowess. Therefore considering the brief distance separating our hotel from Port Hercule, the density of dream cars seen has no equal anywhere else in the world: Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Paganis, Aston Martins, Rolls Royces, McLarens and so forth seem to parade in a whirlwind. We then proceed to walk through the elegant Yacht Club to look at the calm waters hosting the 27th edition of the Yacht Show. In the two hundred thousand or so square metres of protected waters dominated by “Jubilee” a 110 metre built by Oceanco from Holland for Qatar’s Sovereign, there are 125 yachts exhibited representing more than 3.3 billion Euro. Then we should consider visiting parties, taking a closer look you soon realize they have very little in common with those present in many other yacht shows around the world. This time too in fact the organizing party led by Gaëlle Tallarida decided to implement several steps to select the quality of visiting parties. The first, perhaps the most obvious was ‘upgrade’ the prices of tickets. On line daily tickets were sold at 160 Euro and 650 Euro for the whole duration of the event. There were also for the more discerning yachtsmen programmes called Sapphire Experience and Monaco Yacht Summit. The first of the two was open to a small group