Eleven new seminars for Riv Fest

A surge of registrations for the 2015 Riviera Festival of Boating – which this year includes 11 new educational workshops – has prompted a timely reminder for people to book early to secure places for their preferred events.

Now in it’s fourth year, the festival helps owners and aspiring owners of luxury motoryachts to use their boats to their full potential, and this year includes over 70 informative educational and fun social events across four days (May 21-24).

"The interest in the 2015 Festival is extremely strong with registrations to date right across the entire spectrum of events – from knots and rope-work, systems operation and new technology demonstrations right through to offshore seamanship and navigation seminars, as well as our very special social events," said Riviera's Stephen Milne.

"Unfortunately, numbers are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. If you are interested in attending any Festival event, please register online at (www.FestivalOfBoating.com).

Importantly, all Festival events are open to everyone, even if they simply aspire to one day own a luxury boat.

"The Riviera Festival of Boating was created to introduce new people to boating as much as honing the skills of experienced boaters," said Milne.

"The huge array of 27 individual educational seminars will help everyone who loves boating to acquire the skills to experience everything from weekend harbour and coastal cruising to extended coastal passages to wonderful destinations.

"Riviera will also be conducting 60-minute fully narrated train and bus factory tours of our world-class luxury boat building facility – the largest in the Southern Hemisphere – with the train departing at regular intervals throughout the day," said Milne.

"This will be an opportunity to see behind the scenes how a Riviera is built – from hand lamination through to engineering and final fit-out, right through to our comprehensive pre-delivery quality control procedures. In fact the train tours were so popular when we first introduced them at the Gold Coast International Marine Expo in October, that this time we will have a bigger train."

Mr Milne reminded visitors that the very popular Festival social events require tickets to be pre-purchased in advance for catering purposes.

"Also this year we will be announcing three new Riviera models and an entirely new yacht design, exclusively at the Riviera Festival of Boating and Gold Coast International Marine Expo.

"Riviera Festival of Boating visitors will enjoy free VIP parking at the gate and, because you’ll need more than one day to experience everything both the Festival and Expo have to offer, we have arranged multiple-day Expo ticket prices and accommodation packages," Milne concluded.

Full details on event registrations and special Festival offers are available at: www.FestivalOfBoating.com.