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- [Translator] When the
cold arrives in Europe,
it's time to head south
towards the tropics
to find the ideal climate for those
who love the sea, boats, and navigation.
This is why we're in Doha, Qatar.
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Qatar is a small peninsula
at the center of the Persian Gulf,
but its influence on the
world's economy is high.
And in 2022, it'll be
the first Arabic country
to host the Soccer World Cup.
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A seven-kilometer seafront
frames the bay of Doha,
which reflects the towering skyscrapers,
its business center.
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The maze of alleys of Souq Waqif
are a kaleidoscope of oriental products,
where sounds, tastes,
and smells are enjoyed.
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A short distance from Doha, Pearl-Qatar,
an artificial island where luxury hotels
and elegant residences
are built, at its center,
a marina where boats from all
over the world are moored,
demonstrating that now, even in here,
the Persian Gulf, boating has become
increasingly more international.
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The marinas aim to offer five-star service
to attract owners, also from abroad.
It's easy to imagine why.
Here, you can find the most
luxurious products in the world.
And here, you can live
an extravagant lifestyle,
without limitations.
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These are the typical
fishing and work boats
of Qatar, but where are
the pleasure crafts?
Let's go to see them at the
Qatar International Boat Show.
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The stage of the Qatar
International Boat Show
is Mourjan Marinas, at Lusail City,
a short distance from Doha.
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This is the terrace of
a beautiful restaurant
overlooking the marina.
No, actually, this is a dhow,
a typical boat of Qatar.
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Who wouldn't want a
flying bridge like this?
Where you would throw a party
for at least 100 people?
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We Italians like areas to sunbathe.
What do you say to this style?
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The teak is fascinating,
but requires maintenance,
and on a boat, it
sometimes is uncomfortable.
But this boat is 30 meters
long and 8.20 meters wide,
and is made entirely of teak.
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The hull is handmade in India by artisans
we would call shipwrights.
They use tools of ancient
seafaring tradition.
Just think, they've been building
this way for 3,000 years.
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Now, why in Qatar do they
have a boat called Alaska?
Let me explain.
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Crossing through the entrance,
you pass from the tropics
to the North Pole.
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This is the owner's cabin, and
you find it's at the stern,
because the engines are up forward.
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At the Qatar International Boat Show,
there are in attendance about 90 companies
from 15 countries with 80 boats.
It's interesting, the facts
that of 90 exhibitors,
40 are here for the first time.
They are expected to attract
about 15,000 visitors,
and it seems that about half are owners.
- Yes, it's the third edition
in Qatar International Boat Show.
The Boat Show is bigger and better,
and we are already talking to 2016,
we have more new names and
new brands that wants to come,
so I think the show will
be bigger and stronger.
The marine industry is growing.
We have plans for more resorts,
and we have six new islands coming up,
man-made islands in Qatar,
so there will be more
destinations to go there.
Today, there is the first cruise ship
that is coming into Qatar ever,
so they will have more cruise ship people
and the cruise operators are planning,
so the marine industry
is tied all together,
so cruise operator, pleasure boat,
commercial boats, it's
all going all together.
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- [Translator] The leading
manufacturer of fiberglass boats
in Qatar is Halul, and they
don't build only recreational
crafts, but also boats
for the Coast Guard.
It's not a coincidence that this Halul 40
seems to be the recreational version
of a fast patrol vessel,
and it is definitely fast,
with 1,050 horsepower
aft-mounted on Power-Lift.
But Halul builds many different
kinds of boats, from 25 to 60 feet.
Also fishermen such as
this, very powerful.
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Samawy is a shipyard located in Deira,
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
They build boats from 36 to 46 feet,
all vacuum-infused with resin.
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This boat perfectly interprets the spirit
of the boaters of the Persian Gulf,
who love to gather in large groups onboard
to converse and have
every comfort available.
It is a fantastic boat,
its deck is beautiful,
large, the ship sides are high,
and the handrails are inserted
well into the profile.
Here below, the bow
sections are quite sharp,
and the boat is CE certified.
Although it is only in its third year,
the Qatar International Boat Show
hosts many international brands.
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This is our third time
at the Qatar Boat Show.
We have made all of the
editions as princess,
and the second year we made also cranky.
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We very much believe in this fair,
because we think the future will be here.
This is a very large
market in development,
both for the sale of boats,
and for all types of marine work.
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As we have seen, the
marinas are expanding.
We have the Pearl, that
can fit up to 800 boats,
and this marina here in Lusail City,
that has all the construction around.
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Obviously, we are just at the beginning
of the growth of boating in
Qatar, and he who comes first
can take the largest piece of the pie.
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The waters here are quite
clean, very beautiful.
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And there are very
strict regulations here,
which the Ministry of
Environment control very well.
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The waters of Qatar are full of fish.
You can go fishing with
just a few friends,
or you can take a whole crowd with you.
This is the 400XS of MG Boats.
We have just tried the
boats from this yard.
Do you remember?
Oh yes, it goes on the waves, marvelous.
And in the meantime,
we've got to the maximum,
6,400 revs, no, 6,500,
and we're going 66 miles
an hour, fantastic!
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And this other one
instead is the Riviera 77.
It comes from Australia.
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Supreme is a shipyard that builds boats
in Dubai with Italian designs.
We are looking to bring the made in Italy
to the UAE and also the entire Gulf,
building and assembling
Italian products in Dubai.
As for the boats that we are building,
we have now finished
with the new 44-footer,
we have in progress a 63-footer,
and the greatest ambition
is to go up to 35 meters,
115 feet, where we already
have all models ready.
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The 44 project was developed
at the request of the client,
and from the experience gained
in the Gulf in past years.
We're also looking to give
a nice area for fishing
and recreational activities
in the aft cockpit.
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On the 41-footer, we have a
loft-type layout below deck,
a huge sitting area to
accommodate everyone nicely,
and an owner's cabin in the stern area.
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Just about all of the important
boats in the Persian Gulf
need some kind of personalization.
Also this Everglades 350 that
has a fully enclosed cabin,
and air conditioning,
necessary for the high
temperatures of this region.
- Italian boats for, I would say, for me,
or for us, to the company,
we think is the best design and shipyard,
worked for years and years
and years, maybe centuries,
so they know everything how to build boat,
to do the best in the world that we set.
Amer company in Italy
produced the design insides,
custom made for clients,
they can choose anything,
but also the motorization,
so they're involved with Volvo
Penta, the new IPS system,
and the new construction, Amer Cento,
will have four-engine
IPS with no vibration,
silence, and I will say,
the revolutionary things
happen in yachting industry.
So, the good things about
Amer, and I'm proud of it,
we can present the best of the best.
I will say if we have to
compare that with cars,
I will say it's like a
Ferrari or Lamborghini.
Amer is doing very, very well,
and I'm sure we have a very
good future with the company.
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- [Translator] What he's not lacking
is the power of the engines.
We have boats of 30 to 38 feet
with 600, 700, 1000 horsepower.
- We design the boat and we manufacture
the boat all in Qatar here.
Now, we start with the three design,
35 feet, 25 feet, and 23 feet,
and also next month we have 41 feet,
it's all (mumbles) board.
Yes, we look for that fishing,
because the most people here in Qatar,
we look for the fishing boat,
so we focus on the first
for the fishing boat.
And for the future, we
look for the forward
to be more at the market in the world.
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affirmation of the Arab world
in the field of mega yachts
is showcased by Majesty,
a luxury brand from the group Gulf Craft.
This is the 135, they have
also created a 155-foot design.
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Gulf Craft is the most important shipyard
to present at the Qatar
International Boat Show.
30 years of activity,
more than five hundred
boats produced each year,
70% of production is for exportation.
Four manufacturing plants in the UAE,
and one in the Maldives,
and boats up to 155 feet in length.
These are the numbers that show
the magnitude of this company.
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In November, the
temperature is still high,
so the organizers open the
doors of the exhibition
in the afternoon for an evening boat show
that is climatically more comfortable.
- Gulf Craft has been established
in 1982 in the Emirates.
We are born from that
same love for the sea
that the Qataris have as well.
We started boat-building
fiberglass and motor boats
and motor yachts in 1982 and
today we are market leader
in in the Gulf, and of
course here in Qatar as well.
We have a very wide product range.
We built from fishing and family boats
to sport cruisers, yachts
and explorer yachts,
as well as super yachts.
In this region, people
have a great imagination
of what they want to do in these waters,
and that's an advantage to
have as a semi-custom builder,
and this is how we have profiled ourselves
to be different in the world of yachting.
We are based in the Middle East,
but the majority of our
production goes out of the Gulf.
This is our home market, though,
but we are considered
now within the top 10
super yacht manufacturers in the world,
and that's why also here today,
we're showing one of our
super yachts to the region.
Well, today the largest we
produce is indeed a 155-footer,
four-deck luxury super yacht,
and we're not stopping there,
there's not really a ceiling today
to the the size of boats
we're planning to build,
and new designs are already
on the drawing table.
And that's not driven by us engineers
and innovators within the company,
but it's actually driven by our clientele.
The customers are pushing us upward,
and they want the bigger and better.
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- Five years ago we sell
first 60-foot setting
I think I visit today a peril.
It's only one setting catamaran (mumbles).
Now we are three times
now on this boat show
in Qatar I think in the next two, three
years we want have here five to 10 boats.
You have a niche market luxury catamaran,
I start this company 12 years ago,
luxury catamaran not popular 12 year ago.
I see now people are changing mentality
looking more place on board lifestyle.
I think in (mumbles) find this lifestyle
what client looking now.
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Recently build half
sailing half power boat,
yes we have all power
boat is transatlantic
as you can tell everywhere.
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- We actually started with Azimut around
four or five years ago and
we expanded in the region.
We started from Kuwait as our home market
and then we opened an office in pop up
immediately after that with Azimut
and then Dubai covering the UAE
and Oman we are also
opening Bahrain very soon.
To be honest we are very proud
to represent Italian brand
such as Azimut Yachts because the quality,
the engineering, the design,
and the craftsmanship.
There is a huge potential for Azimut here
in the in the Gulf and
we are really catering
for our clients' demands and requests.
Azimut also apart from the
quality and engineering
and design, they are also flexible towards
the market demand so when
Gulf citizen, customer,
clients, or owner want to
change anything in the layout
of the boat or specific option
and requirement they are
willing to do and any kind
of modification to all that.
Azimut has boat starting from 34 feet
as a Atlantis and then goes up to 120.
So all of the boats actually are demanded
here I can say it depends
on the requirement
of the of the customer.
The 95 RPH as we are in the
boat right now you can see
that the massive volume
on this boat specifically
this boat has been one
of our successful models
of the grandi range of Azimut.
We have sold several of them already
and this particular one is going to be
delivered right after
the show to (mumbles).
Right now in the show we have the 95 RPH
and we have the 80 fly
bridge and the 77 S.
Those three boats are specifically
designed in the main deck
to accommodate for the
Middle Eastern and Gulf State
citizens to cater for more guests on board
and to give the privacy
minutes for the owner.
This boat as you can see it
can take easily up to 18 guests
in the, in the main salon similar close
to that will be also the 80.
The same layout as you
can see with no dining
area but with a coffee table that can be
converted to a dining table.
So this is what people
are looking for in this
region to accommodate
more guests on board.
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- [Translator] The Qatar
International Boat Show
comes to a close.
In this edition, we have
had the possibility to know
some very interesting boat
builders of the Persian
Gulf and furthermore we have
seen that there are many
European shipyards here.
Now since the waters are turquoise
and the season lasts
almost all year, I think we
will not wait for the next edition
of the Qatar International Boat
Show to return here to sail.
