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The 50th annual Fort Lauderdale Boat Show opened Thursday, October 29 with the Prime Time Preview. Show Management had yachts and exhibitors stretching to the horizon at six different venues this year. As usual, the big boats were out in force. The weather was unbelievably hot! No carnival-like knife sales people this year.
Captain-Net web site design clients were out in force this year with more than ever before. With new websites at the Boat Show were Bradford Marine Yacht Sales, Bradford Marine, Inc., Bradford Marine Bahamas Brokerage, Marvair Marine Air Conditioning Florida, Brownie's YachtDiver, AccuDock and Conquest Yachts. See more news below...
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View from the Las Olas Bridge looking north
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Boat Show Hours
- Prime Time Preview: Thursday, October 29- 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
- Friday, October 30- 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
- Saturday, October 31- 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
- Sunday, November 1- 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
- Monday, November 2- 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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Six Boat Show Venues
- Bahia Mar Yachting Center
- Greater Fort Lauderdale / Broward County Convention Center
- Fort Lauderdale Grande Hotel and Yacht Club
- Pier 66 Hotel & Marina
- Hall of Fame Marina
- Las Olas Marina
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Bradford Marine
Captain-Net has worked extensively with Braford Marineto rewrite its family of web sites. Currently the new web sites for the Bradford's Fort Lauderdale Yard, the Bradford Yachts Sales and Charter, and the Bradford Bahamas Brokerage sites are complete with two more web sites coming.
Bradford Marine Yacht Sales
Bradford Marine Yard Florida
Bradford Marine Bahamas Brokerage
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 Buy Explorer Yachts.com
John Decaro of All Ocean Yachts is dedicated to the design and construction of custom explorer yachts and expedition type vessels, brokerage sales and yacht charters from their new offices at Bahia Mar. John will be showing "Sudami", (pictured right) a 111 foot Inace explorer vessel as well as new designs at the Show.
Boat Show News Special- Oct. 30
Buy Explorer Yachts.com
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Large Yacht For Sale
Mike Sharpe of Ocean Yachting International with his web site LargeYachtForSale.com is looking forward to seeing old clients and friends as well as meeting new ones.
LargeYachtForSale.com
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 Brownie's Yacht Diver
Two Bahia Mar booths, one at M-2 in the entrance tent and 1263 Land will be offering Show discounts on dive equipment from Brownies Third Lungs, Scuba Pro dive gear and SeaBob scooter water toys.
Brownie's Yacht Diver
Brownie's Third Lung
SeaBob Info
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Captain-Net
Richard George, owner of Captain-Net, will be at the Show again this year seeing his clients. Captain-Net makes sure to get pictures and tidbits of information for site owner client use and product info. Rich doesn't mind answering web site inquiries either!
Captain-Net
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 AccuDock
AccuDock manufactures custom floating docks from aluminum for safe access to the water. These docks are used for kayak and rowing sculls, floating work platforms, marinas and many other uses. GH dock- north side of Bahia Mar Accudock Floating Docks
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Tropical Marine Air Conditioning
Tropic Marine Air Conditioning will be at the Boat Show with HRO water makers and all makes of marine air conditioning. Tropical Marine is well know for their chilled water air conditioning expertise.
Tropical Marine Air Conditioning
Marvair Marine Air Conditioning Florida
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 Yacht-Mate Products
Another client for Captain-Net is Sandy Hoekstra for Yacht-Mate Products. Sandy's company provides everything needed for marine water and air treatment for your yacht. Yacht-Mate installs complete systems to keep your yacht running clean and safe with green systems from stem to stern.
Yacht-Mate Products
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 Yacht Broker Curtis Stokes
Curtis Stokes of Curtis Stokes & Associates offers yacht sales, new yacht construction and yacht charter.
Yacht Broker Curtis Stokes
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 Luxury Yachts for Sale
Ron Rickard of Ardell Yacht and Ship has a web site featuring great buys for motor and sail luxury yachts. Check out his pages for the latest in luxury yacht buying opportunities.
Luxury Yachts for Sale
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Quantum Marine
Quantum Marine Engineering has been enjoying huge succes with both Zero Speed stabilization and large numbers of stabilizer control conversions. Their latest inovation is the XT Fin, an extendable fin for super yacht stabilization. Mike Perkins is shown here with the happy captain and his new construction Feadship featuring a Zero Speed installation.
Quantum Marine
Quantum Stabilizers
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 Conquest Yachts
Built in tough long last ing aluminum, these beautiful and fast motor yachts built in the Ukraine where the low cost of materials and labor enables Conquest Yachts to offer these yachts at a price comprable to a fiberglass yacht. Convention Center, Booth 3032.
Conquest Yachts
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 Concord Marine Electronics
Michael Robilio and company are expecting an excellent turnout for the Boat Show booth this year. Concord does everything from completely integrated new boat installations to single component sales to repairs.
Concord Marine Electronics
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