Annapolis Sailboat Show

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Both shows take place at Annapolis, at the top end of Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States. It’s only 30-odd miles (50 km) to Washington, D.C., which makes these boat shows major events. We went along to the Sailboat Show for you, which featured the world premiere of the HH52, the Island Spirit 525e, and the Seaview 60. We’d been hoping to see the Xquisite 54 E-Plus, but it apparently missed its cargo ship.

American premieres included, from smallest to largest, the Dragonfly 36, the Lagoon 38, the Excess 13, the FP41, the FP44, the Bali 5.2, the Leopard 52, and finally the Balance 580. Once again, this year, the weather played some nasty tricks on the exhibitors – hurricane activity a way south disrupted and delayed a number of delivery trips, and Sunday, the closing day of the show, turned out to be very wet... but it takes more than that to discourage multihull enthusiasts, who, like us, made it to the show!

www.annapolisboatshows.com