Excess Catamarans packs spring boat show calendar across Europe, North America, Asia

Excess Catamarans is not treating spring boat-show season as a calendar fill-in. It is staging a dealer-led push across Europe, North America and Asia, with boats, teams and buyers pulled into the same dockside conversation from La Ciotat to Newport Beach and on to Singapore.

The run opened with Les Nauticales in La Ciotat from April 14 to 19, Newport Beach International Boat Show from April 16 to 19, and Le Nautic de Saint-Malo on April 18. The schedule then moved through Kemah Boat Crawl on April 22 and the International Multihull Show in La Grande Motte from April 23 to 26 before heading to the Singapore Yachting Festival from May 7 to 9. Later stops include Bandol, Cambrils, Sanctuary Cove, Venice and San Diego, giving Excess a spring footprint that stretches far beyond one region or one sales channel.

That reach is the point. Excess says its dealer network covers the world and places dealers in key destinations, and the spring slate reads like a map of where it wants to be seen. In a catamaran market where helm visibility, deck flow, social space and docking manners are hard to judge from a screen, the brand is betting on face-to-face inspections and test-board conversations. It is also chasing multiple constituencies at once: private owners, charter operators and buyers who may be ready to move from curiosity to commitment if they can step aboard quickly.

The model mix reinforces that strategy. The Excess 11 appears most often, giving the brand a compact, familiar entry point to lead conversations. Excess says the 11 is the only large-scale production boat on the market for its size, and it was the model that helped define the brand after its public launch at boot Düsseldorf in January 2020. The schedule also brings the Excess 14 into the frame, a more performance-oriented and larger-project boat that Excess introduced at the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival and brought to the Americas at the 2023 Miami International Boat Show.

The company has the sales momentum to support the show circuit. Excess said the Excess 11 reached 200 units built in April 2024, while the Excess 14 hit 100 units in July 2025. That matters because this is not a fringe display exercise. It is a brand with boats already in volume, a global distributor base and a clear product identity built around twin helm stations, a Pulse Line rig, connectivity, optimized living space and SEANAPPS technology.

Backed by Groupe Beneteau, which describes itself as a global boating leader with 18 brands and services, Excess is using spring to press its advantage in front of the market while the season is still fluid. For buyers who want aboard time rather than brochure time, the most important stops are the ones nearest now: La Ciotat, Newport Beach, Saint-Malo, La Grande Motte and Singapore. Those are the docks where Excess is trying hardest to turn visibility into orders.