Marine Events

DATE OF EVENT – 4^th – 7^th June 2020

NUMBER OF GUESTS – Up to 12 Guests per boat

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CHOOSING ON WATER HOSPITALITY DURING THE ACWS……………WHY?

• These days are hosted on board flybridge powerboats or luxury sailing yachts that never fail to impress any guests that are entertained onboard.
• They are luxuriously appointed, very comfortable and provide you with your own exclusive venue where you can impress your clients or reward your staff with fine wines, chilled Champagne and great food!
• They are fast and exciting, yet comfortable and stable, providing a great platform to watch the impressive racing.
• There are up to 4 separate entertaining areas on board the powerboats, allowing you the chance to get away from the main group if a quite chat with a colleague or a potential client is required.
• The high fly bridges that ALL our powerboats have make sure that you get the best views of the racing, even if you are not right on the front row.

CHOOSING MARINE EVENTS TO HOST YOUR DAY………………WHY?

• Marine Events have been providing water based hospitality at the highest level for over 20 years.
• We have been appointed an official supplier of ALL the powerboat hospitality for the ACWS while it is in Portsmouth, allowing us to provide both official ‘Exclusion Zone’ packages as well as our own.
• We provide corporate events on a daily basis onboard one of the largest most impressive fleets of yachts and powerboats available for charter in the UK.
• We believe that no one client is ever the same, so neither are our events. We provide an event manager from your first call to the completion of the event.
• We discuss your thoughts, your idea’s, your clients and the expectations you have for your event. With this information we will then create an event that will best suite your requirements and provide the best event possible to fit with your budget.
• We have built Marine Events on repeat business with clients coming back year upon year. Below are some companies that we have entertained onboard our fleet. 

SUGGESTED ITINERARY – VENUE

0945 – Guests will arrive at the yachts for a morning breakfast reception, this will include, tea, coffee, fresh juices and a selection of fresh Danishes.  The venue to meet the yachts is still to be confirmed, but it is likely to be Ports Solent in Portsmouth Harbour, the same as in 2016, this venue is only 5 minutes from the M27 and has easy access into the sheltered sailing waters of the Solent and the location of the America’s Cup World Series.

There is also an option to upgrade your breakfast reception to include a Champagne Reception, consisting of smoked salmon and cream cheese croissants, Danish pastries, strawberries, tea, coffee and fresh juices. 

MORNING EVENT

At the end of the breakfast reception there will be a safety briefing by your professional skipper and Hostess.  We will then leave the dock in the yacht for a gentle 30-minute cruise out of Portsmouth’s historic harbour and into the Solent.  This will give participants the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the vessels.

During the morning we will cruise the boat around the viewing area, the skipper will have weather forecasts and we will be issued with the course that the yachts will race, from this information we can choose the best location on the race course to ensure a great viewing experience, if you have VIP exclusion Zone access then your position will be decided for you…front row centre!

 Pictures taken from on board our sailing Yacht at the 2015 event from within the exclusion zone

The America’s Cup World Series

 

For only the second time in over 150 years an English sailor will be competing in English waters for an America’s cup trophy.

Sir Ben Ainslie and his elite team will be racing their state of the art foiling AC75’s in a fleet race, on a VERY small course just off Southsea common near Portsmouth, the racing will be close to the shore, but by far the best way to watch will be from a boat on the water.

There will be an ‘official exclusion zone’ where only boats booked on the official hospitality packages will be permitted to go, these boats will have front row, unrestricted viewing of the racing while marshals keep the area’s clear.  Marine Events have been announced as official suppliers for this ACWS.

There will be a second area that will be a public viewing area, at this stage we cannot confirm how close we will be able to get to the racing or how much will be seen, but in 2016 all boats we had on the water, VIP or not were able to get superb viewing.

 Here are some shots of the radical new foiling mono hulls, before the America’s cup these boats and design had never been tested or raced before, cutting edge new technology and coming to Portsmouth!

LUNCH

1300 – Building on our experience from 2015 and 2016, we found that having a luxury buffet lunch on board, although superb food, was not perfect for the race viewing day, we found that boats would watch all the racing, then later in the day head back to the Marina for their lunch, which worked out to be quite late.  So in 2016 we started introducing a luxury ‘Hamper’ lunch, each client has their own pre prepared ‘hamper’ with a range of quality food that can be eaten with ease while the boat is cruising and watching the racing.  Accompany this with some fine wine and some chilled beers and this solution has already proved to be a winner on many of the charters we have done and will be a continued feature in 2020.

AFTERNOON RACING

During the afternoon we will manoeuvre the boat to the best position we can find to watch the racing, as we have said we cannot guarantee front row seats, unless you decide to book the exclusion zone VIP tickets, but as highlighted before, we will however get you as close as possible to the racing action. The racing is due to start at 14.30 and each race will be approximately 25 – 30 minutes, there will be 3 races.  The course is only 1.2 miles long so the racing will be fast, close and very exciting.

The yachts will finish racing at approximately 4.30pm at which point we will cruise back to our home port

AFTERNOON TEA

1630hrs – Afternoon tea, with scones and clotted cream will be served onboard the powerboats as they cruise back up the harbour to their base before the group departs at their leisure at approximately 1700hrs

 

INCLUDED AS STANDARD ON THIS EXAMPLE AMERICA’S CUP EVENT

• Yacht Specified and all relevant costs
• Fuel for this event.
• Professional Skipper, Host and any relevant crew
• Event manager allocated to your event from start to finish
• Welcome breakfast reception, Danishes and mini Muffins as well as tea, coffee and fresh juices.
• Luxury Hamper Lunch
• Afternoon scones and clotted cream tea’s on board
• Wine, beer and Pimms served all day (Limited package)

(6 bottles of wine, 1 case of lager, 1 litre of Pimms with lemonade, Strawberries, mint etc)

• Soft drinks and snacks served all day
• Selection of daily newspapers onboard
• Digital camera’s provided on all boats
• Web hosted library of your pictures for your guests to view
• All safety equipment including life jackets
• Sun cream
• The backing of a company that has been providing ONLY water based

    hospitality for over 20 years

Extra’s Available

• Champagne Reception
• Various food options
• Additional wine, beer and Champagne
• High Performance Rib, with driver and fuel to get the guests even closer to the racing
• Binoculars for each guest
• Branded jackets, T shirts, Company flags, boat branding etc.

Selection of our Luxury Sailing Yachts and Catamarans

2019 Dufour 46

The modern style of cruiser, with their large beamy sterns, create simply vast open cockpits for their size of boat, creating perfect corporate boats for day sailing in the Solent. Despite being 46 feet in length, this stunning boat is light and easy to sail, allowing all your guests a superb opportunity to get involved in sailing a large luxury cruiser

 

2018 Hanse 548 Luxury Sailing Yacht

This stunning 54 ft luxury sailing yacht is perfect for corporate days in any conditions, it has one of the largest fully cushioned cockpits of any boat of its size on the market, as well as a superb ‘hard top’ for the cockpit, so that IF the rain comes, you and your guests will stay nice and dry while watching the racing.

How ever if the sun shines, one click and the entire roof retracts leaving you basking in the sun.  A superb sailing performance and a vast open planned saloon makes this a comfortable spacious boat to spend the day onboard!

THE MOODY 66

Quite simply the Moody 66 is one of the largest most luxurious private cruising yachts available for charter in the Solent in 2020

These yachts are approximately 70 feet in length and weigh in the region of 38 tonnes, they are operated by electric winches and hydraulic furling systems providing your guests with the ultimate in power and indulgence.

The vast open cushioned cockpit and uncluttered teak decks provide you with endless space for entertaining your guests unfamiliar with sailing boats, but still allowing the more experienced sailors to “play” with the power that these incredible yachts generate.

Luxury 40 foot sailing Catamaran

We now have two 40 foot cats, they are proving to be popular cruising boats for corporate events, they provide fast fun sailing but on a stable flat platform.

A 40ft Catamaran provides the same amount of space as a 70 foot Mono hull, yet is flat and stable due to its two hull and massive beam, ideal when spectating sailing events like the America’s Cup and Sail GP.

They have vast open cockpits, designed for outdoor living with a rigid canopy so if it does rain your guests can still sail in the dry, the deck space goes on and on with seating all around the boat.