{"id":432854,"date":"2026-10-20T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432854\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:10:12","slug":"wednesday-is-the-day-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432854\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Is \u2018The Day\u2019 In Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"

With little time to waste and no small-talk game, I approach the Fort Lauderdale and Miami boat shows with a basic coverage plan. Get in, observe, get out, write and publish. Because the real work\u2014knowing what\u2019s coming in advance\u2014is done long before any show begins.<\/p>\n

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The Hardin Marine\/CP Performance display trailer always has a remarkable assortment of high performance marine parts and accessories.<\/p>\n

Next February at the Miami affair, for example, I\u2019ll see everything I need to Wednesday morning in the convention center, hit the invitational Mercury Racing demo event in Coconut Grove that afternoon, move on to enjoy Nor-Tech\u2019s annual evening convention-center celebration and then head back to Sarasota Thursday morning. I\u2019ll return to Miami\u2014OK, Doral\u2014Saturday evening for the second-year Angle of Attack Marine open-house<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s almost six months from now. The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show opens exactly one week from today.<\/p>\n

Still, the plan remains much the same. <\/p>\n

So Wednesday, October 25, is \u201cPreview Day,\u201d which means admission costs more but there are fewer people on the docks at Bahia Mar Marina and Yachting Center home of the high-performance powerboat segment, is always my day. For much of the mid-morning and early afternoon, exhibitors spend their time catching up with one another. They have time to chat.<\/p>\n

Because would-be boat buyers are fewer and farther between on Wednesday, a mid-week happening with a higher ticket price.<\/p>\n

That makes it a great day\u2014strike that, the best day\u2014for the potential buyers who show up. The buyer-to-salesperson ratio leans heavily in favor of the buyer. Translation? As a buyer, you won\u2019t lack for attention when you want it.<\/p>\n

And the sales-folks are in ever finer spirits than usual because the happenings of Key West, Fla., begin the following week. It\u2019s not so much that they\u2019re eager to return to complete two-plus weeks on the road. It\u2019s that they know the season\u2014and boating seasons appear to be getting longer and longer every year\u2014is almost over.<\/p>\n

So the Fort Lauderdale show mood is particularly celebratory.<\/p>\n

Which is why Wednesday also makes excellent sense on the social\/industry level. Deep Impact Custom Boats has its second-year Fort Lauderdale show celebration<\/a> set to begin at 6 p.m. that night. Would be party-goers (RSVP to Valentina Botero) will be surrounded by everything the company offers including its new 449 Poker Run and latest 499 center console.<\/p>\n

Just a short stroll away, Nor-Tech also will be hosting its Fort Lauderdale customer\/vendor appreciation event. Want to meet a Nor-Tech dealer? You can meet all of them at this annual affair.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you\u2019re in the market for a high-performance center console or catamaran\u2014or even a V-bottom sportboat\u2014you should spend more than one day walking the Bahia Mar docks. From Cigarette to MTI to Performance Powerboats to Concept Boats, almost every relevant brand will be represented in Fort Lauderdale next week. The event is a one-stop shop of sorts, which is the point of boat shows in general, and it\u2019s a big shop.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not a buyer, just a guy who writes about boats, the people who love them and the events they enjoy. So get in, get out and get back to work will forever remain my boat-show coverage mantra.<\/p>\n

See you next week. At least if you\u2019re there Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With little time to waste and no small-talk game, I approach the Fort Lauderdale and Miami boat shows…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-432854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}