The first floating boat show of the season offers you an edition full of new features in a condensed format with a rich program!
The 21st edition of Nauticales, in La Ciotat, will open its doors on March 20. The event, as every year, opens the season of floating boat shows. Come and discover approximately 300 boats on display and meet the hundred exhibitors present at the show. You are 25,000 visitors expected for this new edition!
« In this Olympic year, which will see the greatest athletes compete in the Marseille bay for sailing events, Les Nauticales have decided to reinvent themselves. This year, in a reduced format, we wish to put at the heart of our event all enthusiasts and actors of the sea, those who experience it every day, live and breathe it ! Many personalities will thus be present to share their passion with a wide audience throughout the show. Come meet them ! »
Martine Vassal, President of the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis which organizes the event
An edition full of new features
This year, Les Nauticales offer you a condensed version, shorter (now 6 days) but extremely rich! Far from being just a boat show, it’s a celebration of the sea that addresses all enthusiasts and lovers of the marine environment with 8 themes highlighted: pleasure boating, diving, fishing, gastronomy, water sports, nautical leisure, sea trades, and marine environment protection !
Do not miss the areas dedicated to decarbonization and innovations, demonstrations of sailing, water sports, and various nautical activities. The Olympic Games will be highlighted with the presence of Jonathan Lobert, French Olympic sailing medalist at the London 2012 Olympics.
200 m² dedicated to diving
Divers can discover the diving village: an area of 200m² entirely dedicated to their passion with the presence of equipment suppliers, diving sector actors, and the organization, throughout the show, of activities, try-out dives, etc.
Personalities from all horizons
It’s a couple of adventurers and explorers who are sponsoring this edition! Philippe Poupon, French navigator with multiple titles, will be alongside his wife, actress and director Géraldine Danon who has been in the news these past months with the film Flo, a biopic inspired by the life of Florence Arthaud.
They will both be present at the opening of the show, on Wednesday, March 20, and will close this first day with a debate meeting during the film screening Flo at the Eden cinema.
Numerous ambassadors will also enliven these six days of the show, including the freediver, double world record holder, Arnaud Jerald. As an official representative and proud ambassador of the underwater world at this event, he will host a conference entitled The Wisdom of the Depths, on Saturday, March 23 at 2 p.m。
Among the other ambassadors, also find skippers Christopher Pratt et Mikaël Mergui, representatives of sailing and offshore racing. The sport fisherman and member of the French boat fishing team Sylvain Ferachoglou will highlight his preferred discipline. The most titled kitesurfer in the world, Alexandre Caizergues will be the decarbonization and innovation ambassador with his startup Syroco, with which he is developing a wind-powered module aiming to shatter speed records on water. Finally, Éric Mabo, Deputy General Delegate at the Federation of Nautical Industries (FIN), will highlight employment and the economy of the nautical sector.
Cycle of conferences
| Wednesday, March 20 at 2:30 p.m. | Conference by Mikaël Mergui “Discovering Offshore Racing” |
| Thursday, March 21 March at 10:30 a.m. | Conference by Alexandre Cazeirgues “Decarbonization, Blue Economy » |
| Friday, March 22 at 2 p.m. | Conference by Éric Mabo “Careers in the Sea » |
| Friday, March 22 at 4 p.m. | Conference by Christopher Pratt “ What Path and Training to Become a Professional Navigator ? » |
| Saturday, March 23 March at 10 a.m. | Conference by Sylvain Ferachoglou “Leisure Fishing and Ethics, How to Reconcile Predatory Activity and Moral Values” |
| Saturday, March 23 March at 2 p.m. | Conference by Arnaud Jerald “The Wisdom of the Depths” |
| Sunday, March 24 at 2 p.m. | Conference by Jonathan Lobert “Sharing is Winning” |
The Island of Beauty in the Spotlight
A Corsican village is appearing this year at Les Nauticales to showcase theisland of Beauty, a territory oriented towards the sea and a land-based terroir. Come and discover local actors from the nautical field but also taste culinary specialties in an authentic atmosphere!
Les Nauticales
From Wednesday, March 20 to Monday, March 25
Port des Capucins – 13600, La Ciotat
Photos © Les Nauticales