SupaSailing in Monaco: Smart & Sustainable Marina Rendezvous and Monaco Yacht Show 2026

For one week in September, everyone who builds, runs, finances and digitises marinas and yacht fleets is in the same square kilometre. From 20 to 26 September 2026 the SupaSailing team is in the Principality of Monaco for two back-to-back events: the 6th Monaco Smart & Sustainable Marina Rendezvous at the Yacht Club de Monaco (20–21 September) and the Monaco Yacht Show at Port Hercule (23–26 September).

We are not going with a stand and a stack of brochures. We are going to listen and to talk: to marina managers who are tired of running a port on spreadsheets, to fleet and charter operators whose data lives in six disconnected tools, to brokers, captains and shipyard project managers who spend more time chasing status updates than doing the work. If that sounds like your week too, we would like to meet you.

Monaco Smart & Sustainable Marina Rendezvous — 20–21 September

The Rendezvous, now in its sixth edition, is held at the Yacht Club de Monaco and organised by M3 Monaco, the Monegasque consultancy specialised in the development and management of marinas, yacht clubs and sailing schools. It is deliberately not a trade fair: two days of workshops, panel discussions, project presentations and structured networking, with professionals from some 28 countries — marina managers and operators, investors, architects, industry bodies, innovation companies and captains — working through the questions that are actually reshaping port infrastructure. The projects presented compete for the Monaco Smart & Sustainable Marina Awards 2026, handed out at the closing ceremony on Monday 21 September.

This is the event we care most about, because the questions on its agenda are the ones our marina module exists to answer. A modern marina is asked to do three difficult things at once: fill every berth efficiently, run a safe and compliant operation, and prove — with numbers, not intentions — that it is reducing its environmental footprint. Those three goals share one dependency: knowing what is actually happening in the port, in real time, in one place.

• Berth and contract management. Who is in which berth, until when, at what rate, with which contract and which outstanding balance — without three people reconciling three spreadsheets every Monday morning.
• Operations and maintenance. Pontoon inspections, utilities, technical interventions and incidents recorded where they happen, on a phone, by the person who saw them.
• Sustainability reporting. Water and electricity consumption per berth, waste streams, fuel handling — captured as operational data rather than reconstructed once a year for a report nobody trusts.
• The guest experience. Arrival, invoicing and communication that feel like 2026 rather than a fax machine with a nicer font.

Sustainability in a marina is, in the end, a data problem. You cannot improve a number you are not measuring, and you cannot measure what is buried in an email thread. That is the conversation we are coming to have in Monaco.

Monaco Yacht Show — 23–26 September

Two days later, a few hundred metres away, Port Hercule becomes the Monaco Yacht Show: an in-water show with more than 120 superyachts afloat alongside some 60 luxury tenders, and over 560 exhibitors — designers, naval architects, builders, equipment suppliers, brokers and service providers. It is the densest concentration of large-yacht decision-makers anywhere in the calendar.

The operational reality behind all that varnish is less glamorous, and very familiar to us. A superyacht is a small, mobile, highly regulated business with a crew payroll, a maintenance plan, a certification calendar, a charter programme, an owner who wants clarity and a management company running the same processes across a dozen vessels at once. That is exactly the shape of problem SupaSailing Fleet was built for — and Fleet is the module we will be talking about most in Port Hercule.

• Fleet. Maintenance and certification planning, crew and document management, technical history, costs per vessel and across the fleet — one system instead of one folder structure per yacht.
• Charter. Enquiries, availability, contracts, APA and accounting, all connected to the same vessel record the technical team is working from.
• Broker. A CRM that understands yachts rather than generic "deals": listings, buyers, sea trials, offers and closings.
• Shipyard / refit. Project management for refits and new builds: work lists, subcontractors, variations, budget versus actual — the numbers an owner asks for on the one day you do not have them.

What we would like to talk about with you

We build a modular platform for maritime operations: fleet, charter, brokerage, marina and refit, in one place, in five languages, hosted in the EU. But a platform demo is the least interesting part of a conversation at a show. What we actually want to hear in Monaco is the operational detail nobody publishes:

• Which process in your operation is still held together by a spreadsheet, and what it costs you when it breaks.
• How you report sustainability and compliance today — and how much of it is reconstruction rather than measurement.
• Where your data stops flowing: the handover between technical and commercial, between marina and vessel, between broker and management company.
• What you have tried before, and why it did not stick. The graveyard of abandoned maritime software is a genuinely useful map.

Those conversations are how the product gets better. Most of what shipped in SupaSailing this year started as a complaint from someone standing on a pontoon.

Where to find us

• Monaco Smart & Sustainable Marina Rendezvous (6th edition) — 20–21 September 2026, Yacht Club de Monaco. Awards ceremony on Monday 21 September.
• Monaco Yacht Show — 23–26 September 2026, Port Hercule, Principality of Monaco.
• Our team is on the ground from 20 to 26 September, without a stand: meetings are by appointment, in person, around the two venues.
• To book a slot: request a meeting through the form on this site, or write to [email protected] with your availability.

A short, practical note on logistics

Monaco during show week is a small place with a large number of people in it. Diaries fill up days in advance, walking between Port Hercule and the Yacht Club takes longer than the map suggests, and the best conversations tend to be the ones that were scheduled. If you want half an hour with us — over a coffee, on a dock, or wherever there is a free table — it is worth writing now rather than on the day.

If you cannot make it to Monaco, nothing is lost: we run the same conversation remotely, without the boat noise, any week of the year.