Home to a healthy variety of high-performance powerboat exhibits during the Fort Lauderdale International Boat, the Bahia Mar Yachting Center is a manageable venue once you reach it. Traffic in and around the area—and most of South Florida for that matter—is congested most of the time and savage at peak hours. But once you get there, there’s plenty to see at the docks and the layout is easy to navigate.
Yet for exhibitors, the challenge of offering demo experiences is ongoing. All of the boats in the water dock-locked for the duration.
It’s not just a hurdle at the Fort Lauderdale happening. It’s also a major headache at the annual Miami International Boat Show. In fact, the problem is so acute at the Miami affair that Mercury Racing hosts an annual invitational demo-event at Grove Harbour Marina—a 30-minute drive from the Miami Convention Center on a very good day—in Coconut Grove from Wednesday morning through Friday at noon during the show.
MTI is coming to Fort Lauderdale in a big way next month. Photos by Tom Leigh copyright Tommy Gun Images.
For that reason, MTI will once again back up its display fleet at the show with a demo fleet at Haulover Marine Center. The Wentzville, Mo., company will have 422 and 50 V center consoles at the Bahia Mar docks. The team also will have the same models at Haulover for by-appointment demos. (Demo reservations can be made through MTI’s Shaun Peters and Tom Stuart.)
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The company will have its 44-foot catamaran and 50-foot center console (above), as well as its 442 center console in the mix.
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