The Cannes Yachting Festival holds its 49th edition from 8 to 13 September 2026 along the quays of the Vieux Port and Port Canto. The programme lists 150 in-water world premieres and 700 boats between 5 and 50 metres, shown by 680 international exhibitors. Organisers expect 56,000 visitors.
Among the boats making their debut is Azimut's Magellano 27M (26.20 x 6.85 metres), the third model in the series and Michele De Lucchi's first project for a boatbuilder. Its main deck is laid out as a loggia open to the sea, with light wood elements that recall Mediterranean pergolas and patios. Isa Yachts brings the ISA Viper 130 (38.80 x 7.85 metres), a motor yacht designed by Fulvio De Simoni, with a carbon composite hull, three MAN V12X-2200 engines and a top speed of 35 knots. At anchor, the cockpit divided into three zones and the extending side balconies widen the deck area.
"Naval design is a demanding profession, built on age-old skills and on styles that stand comparison with architecture or industrial design. The 150 world premieres we are pleased to host in the water this year are the clearest proof of it, from Michele De Lucchi's first yachting project to a truly surprising floating home. It is precisely this variety of projects, visible above all along our pontoons, that makes the Cannes Yachting Festival a special event," said Constance Brément, director of the Cannes Yachting Festival.
The debuts span very different categories. Caelum shows the Oasis Meu Amor (11.99 x 4.99 metres), a two-level floating house built in Croatia in the local boatbuilding tradition, solar-powered and offering 40 m² of living space. Sanlorenzo presents SHE (25.50 x 6.50 metres), the first model in the Heritage range from the yard founded in 1958, with full-height glazing and a profile drawn from Italian yachts of the 1960s. Cantiere del Pardo shows the Grand Soleil Plus 80 LC (26.20 x 6.60 metres), a 26-metre sailing yacht designed by Matteo Polli and fitted with 40 kWh batteries to cut engine use at the dock.
Among multihulls, Sunreef presents the ULTIMA 88 (26.80 x 9.10 metres), a power catamaran of which one unit has been ordered by tennis player Carlos Alcaraz. Numarine shows the 40MXP (39.42 x 8.00 metres), the "Mediterranean Explorer" version of the XP range, with a steel hull, a range of 6,000 nautical miles at 8 knots and six cabins for up to 12 guests. The selection also includes the RIBCO Venom 45 SC (13.40 x 3.75 metres), with a three-step hull by British naval architect Lorne Campbell, the Sarfnav AIR 77 Breathe Me (22.50 x 10.50 metres), a mould-free epoxy wood power catamaran designed by Frédéric Sarfati and rebuilt by roughly 85 per cent compared with the original model, and the Girbau Boats G31 (9.42 x 2.95 metres), whose hull is built using infusion.
The show ties this edition to the history of the profession. Naval design emerged as a discipline of its own in the 1960s with Australian Jon Bannenberg, nicknamed the "Le Corbusier of yachting", the first to treat hull, superstructure and interiors as a single architectural project; over forty years he would design almost 200 yachts. In the same period Carlo Riva turned the family yard on Lake Como into a reference point for industrial design with the Aquarama, launched in 1962 in varnished mahogany and later nicknamed the "Ferrari of the sea". In 2008 came the launch of Motor Yacht A, 119 metres, signed by Philippe Starck.
Doors open at 10:00 every day. Closing is at 19:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 22:00 on Friday for the late opening and at 18:00 on Sunday.