Boat Dealer "at a glance"
From the promoter- The Cape Coral Art Festival is 40-years running and owned/managed by the Rotary Club of Cape Coral. Lee County's Nautical Mile Magazine is coordinating the addition of a boat show addition in 2025 to help set the stage for what will soon be the best public show exposure opportunity for the boating industry in SW Florida. The main show has roughly 150,000 attendees (Miami Boat Show is under 100k) and hundreds of vendor booths in their annual Art Show & Marketplace which is sold out months ahead. The additional road closure to invite boats is only about 2,500' of linear feet and will likely sell out also. I'd like to say, "Lets create the largest coastal show in SW Florida," but it already is. You bring the boats, and we'll draw the coastal enthusiasts!
-Jim Griffiths, Publisher, Nautical Mile.
*The following information is only for the 2,500-foot addition being introduced for the 2025 show:
Friday evening, January 10, Cape Coral Police close Cape Coral Parkway and re-routs east and westbound traffic around almost a mile of the main downtown district in a city with over 400-miles of canals to host a show with the largest collection of coastal enthusiasts in all of SW Florida. Nearly a thousand exhibitors spend Friday night setting up booths and the crowds start arriving around 9am Saturday morning.
There's no entrance fee and no assigned parking or parking fees. The city simply allows this to happen. Complaints about the inconvenience of a 2-day road closure are so minimal that the city wants to introduce more events like this in the future.
The main art festival includes 8 food courts, a juried art show with over 300 exhibitors, a marketplace with hundreds more local businesses, and now the addition of about 2,500 feet or road for a Boat Show & Outdoor Expo.
Set-up is Friday evening starting at 7pm when CCPD closes Cape Coral Parkway and re-routs traffic from Del Prado to Coronado Parkway. 2 staging areas with security are being planned so you can start running boats a block away Friday morning, it can also be used to leave boats Sunday night for Monday pick-up.
We're creating multiple entrances for set-up so each dealer will different load-in instructions.
DISPLAY SPACE IS FIRST COME/FIRST SERVE
- Only your application and payment can secure a spot.
Est 2,500' of road is being used, up one side and down another, so no boats would be stuck in an area which would go unseen. All spaces have boats backed up to the median and angled so they extend out no longer than 15' into the road.
25-foot depth spaces:
Exhibitor spaces are 15' deep and cost is $35 per linear foot. 4 spaces are available which are turning lanes providing 25' depth. These are est 150' wide and cost $45 per linear foot.
Pontoon Boats/blocks: Most boats will remain on trailers, if you have pontoon boats on blocks for display, be sure they can be removed from the street within a couple hours so the roads can be open Sunday evening.
• Pays for your first 30’ at the show
• Logo on advertising materials
• Independent PAID ads on social media
• Logo on banners and signage
• Logo on brochures and posters
$2,500
