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The Southampton Boat Show, also called the Southampton International Boat Show, is an on-water boat show, one of the largest in Europe and the biggest of its type in the UK. The show is held annually in September in Mayflower Park, Southampton, England. The Southampton Boat Show is run by British Marine, the trade association for the leisure ...
National Boat Shows, rebranded British Marine Boat Shows in 2015 and then British Marine in 2017, was set up to run the organisation's Boat Shows, and made a successful acquisition of the Southampton Boat Show. The cancellation of London Boat Show from 2019 was announced in May 2018, with organisers citing the show as commercially unviable for ...
Maiden arrived in Southampton in April 2017 [20] and the original crew reunited. [13] The yacht was refitted by Hamble Yacht Services [21] in Hamble, near Southampton, [22] in the same shed where she had been refitted in 1988. [11] She was re-rigged by Ocean Yacht Systems, the same firm that had rigged her in the 1980s. [23]
The RS Quest was unveiled at the Southampton Boat Show in 2015. Continuing the partnership between MSSC and RS Sailing, the single sail RS Zest dinghy was launched at the 2017 Southampton Boat Show. It is intended for a crew of two but can be sailed single-handed.
It was planned to re-launch Maiden in the summer of 2018 and in September 2018 depart from Southampton Boat Show with a new crew of women, on a three-year world tour. [15] The yacht left Hamble in November, but had to call into Plymouth for repairs. When they can continue, their first scheduled stop will be Kerala, India. [16]
Emily Lewis, 15, was a passenger on a rigid inflatable boat being driven by Michael Lawrence when it hit a buoy in Southampton Water in August 2020. Jury shown footage of speedboat accident in ...
1968 – The Southampton Boat Show begins. 1969 Southampton Technical College is established. Television Centre is built, and it then closes in 2008. 1971 – The university's Southampton School of Medicine opens. 1972 – Southampton loses its County Borough status under the Local Government Act of this year to become a non-metropolitan district.
The Corvette 32 exhibited at the 1974 Southampton Boat Show was priced at £25,500 ex VAT (equivalent in 2014 to about £269,000) with a pair of 106 hp Volvo Penta D32A diesel sterndrives. About 30 were made before the company went into liquidation in 1977.