South Wales Boat Show
Yes its true! the Fifth South Wales Boat Show has up anchored and Moved to Prince of Wales dock, SA1 Swansea, we hope you will enjoy the new shows location with all our old features and friends plus many new ones too.
Make a date for this years shows
5th South Wales SA1 Swansea Friday 18th-Sunday 20th June
and the Third North Wales Boat
Show
Fri 30th July- Sun 1st August at The Vaynol Estate Bangor!
The South Wales Boat Show is moving to SA1 Swansea as it returns for a 5th year! Once again, it will be the Biggest and Best in Wales, and we are proud that the show has continued despite the current climate to represent the Welsh and UK marine industry. With a mini marina this year which the original Phase has already sold out there are 15 berths with craft from a 40ft Beneateu, 41ft Jeanneau, several Bayliners, Quentex, Trusty 23, the latest Falklands Fast Fisher and many more!
Peppa Pig!!!! Confirmed for Saturday & Sunday.
We are delighted to have a very special V.I.P. for all families attending this years South Wales Boat Show supported again by our old friends at Barkers Leisure..
Last year Sponge Bob SquarePants met 1000's of children on the Barkers Leisure Stand. This year we have Peppa Pig attending the show. She will be making appearances to meet and greet with photos for all through out the day during the show on both Saturday and Sunday
Official Show Photo Gallery
Photo Diary
A little bit of back ground.
The South Wales Boat Show Celebrates FIVE Years! The last four shows have been very well attended at the old location, have a look at the TV coverage covering the show. Once again we had the sun beating down on the beautiful Welsh countryside for the 4th South Wales Boat Show. The show which saw thousands of visitors again for the boat show. A range of attractions were offered throughout the weekend including Studds fairground, a shipwreck on Aberavon beach for the kids with a play area and huge sandpit, Six knot Challenge, father's day sea shanty singing contest! and multitude of chandlery stalls and over 300 craft from major and local manufacturers on display. Over 1,000 people enjoyed The Come and Try on the lake aboard jet ski's, zapcats, sailing dinghies and other craft. All these will be back for the 2010 show in Swansea SA1 plus several new attractions.
We have again had loads of brilliant feed back from Visitors and many of the companies from within the industry who we try to represent here with excellent sales and further new Exclusive New Product launches too. We work hard all year to make the event develop and we are delighted that again we had even more Exhibitors as well as public attend the show. The come and try was run by Swansea WaterSports and kindly supported by National Boat Shows for a second year and put a record number of families on the water too! We are Please to confirm we are still taking bookings for this year's show running from the Friday the 18th of June- Sunday the 20th June 2010
The show opened on Friday at 10.00 with an official opening with M.D. of National Boat Show's Andrew Williams and several V.I.P.'s at 11.00. We are again very grateful for the massive support of so many Welsh, U. K. European Companies and individuals who have supported our show to really put the Welsh and U. K. Marine industry on the map in South Wales. This year we have even more Exhibitors and products that attended our event, we made our target again for the 4th year of just on 200 different companies being represented and with only hours to go, we were still getting bookings!, our new layout with the entrance to the show through the further extended and fully carpeted 6,000sq foot Main Marquee was a great success and for the 4th year running totally sold, with over 275 craft on display. It was very clear from the feed back we have had since and during the show, that there is no where else in Wales where you could see the massive selection and range of products on offer again. We are very proud that our family run show in Four years has grown to become clearly the biggest regional boat show of its type in the UK.
Over the years the show has helped the industry in being an excellent venue to market products. High lights from over the years include Prosser Marine recorded the biggest individual sale of the South Wales boat show with a £280,000 Fairline powerboat, he then went on to sell a 38ft Cruiser yacht too all in the same weekend!. The success of our shows hasn't stop there either with 5 sales reported from the recently launched GGF Falklands fast fisher, Pembrokeshire Sports Boats & Pictons along with Bayliner have all confirmed sales at the shows to date. Generally all exhibitors have reported excellent sales and many took confirmed orders for craft at the shows. The end result meaning that most have rebooked along with several new companies who are looking forward to welcoming at our new venue in June!!!.
James Ketchell
Come and visit James Ketchell and his boat, that he is currently rowing the 2931 miles across the Atlantic ocean alone and unaided in. This will involve 70 - 80 days in his boat with only himself and the deep blue ocean for company as James endeavors to cross from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua. Christopher Columbus followed a similar route when he discovered America back in 1492. He took just under 3 months to do it. With the help of the Trade Winds James hopes to complete the crossing in a similar time when he sets off in December 2009.
Incredible as it might seem we have sent more people into space and back than we have across the Atlantic Ocean in a rowing boat, Ocean rowing crossings are few and far between, indeed, more people have reached the summit of Mount Everest and have been into space than have rowed across one of the Earths oceans.
Also James is hoping this epic adventure will raise upwards of £50,000 for a fantastic children's charity, the NSPCC.
For further info please visit www.atlanticadventurer.com
The South Wales Boat are pleased to support James, and hope you will too!go to his site and donate!!
