Stage programs

Budapest Boat Show – Stage programme 2024

22 – 25. February 2024

Thursday 22 February – professional day

• 11.00 – 12.00 BBS cinema
• 12.00 – 12.30
• 12.30 – 13.00 Powerboat Federation – Attila Havas, (14x World Champion and 14x European Champion)
• 13.00 – 13.30 Hungarian Maritime Technical College – career choice and career guidance presentation
• 13.30 – 14.00 5 years of Klasszikushajok.hu, Classic Cup series, 22 – es Binnenjolle renovation – Vincze Gábor Compass magazine
• 14.00 – 14.30 OPENING CEREMONY
  • Klára Tihanyi – HUNGEXPO Director of Strategy and Business Development
  • Csaba Haranghy – MVSZ president 
  • Zsombor Berecz – SSL Gold Cup Team Champion
  • István Szépvölgyi – Managing Director, Hungarian Sailing Academy NKft. representative of the guest of honour vitorlázzitthon.hu
• 14.30 – 15.15 BBS Novelty Contest Awards Ceremony
  • Klára Tihanyi – HUNGEXPO Director of Strategy and Business DevelopmentAndrás Holczhauser – MVSZ Secretary GeneralZsombor Berecz – SSL Gold Cup Team Champion
  • István Szépvölgyi – Managing Director, Hungarian Sailing Academy NKft. representative of the guest of honour vitorlázzitthon.hu
    • Boat category
      • I. place
      • II. place
      • III. place
    • Navigation related products category
      • I. place
    • OVERALL PRIZES
• – Best Domestic Development Special Award
• – Greenest Product Special Award
• 15.15 – 16.00 “SSL Mini Gold Cup” qualifier, four boat race with model sailing boats – live streaming from the pool on stage and on-line
• 16.00 – 16.30 Cruising without a licence – Portless International
• 16.30 – 17.00 BME Solar Boat Team: 2024 developments, team and new boat
• 17.00 – 17.30 BBS cinema

Friday 23 February

• 10.00 – 11.00 BBS cinema
• 11.00 – 11.30 Travel by boat and excursion at the same time – Portless International
• 11.30 – 12.00 Amateur boat builders’ community – boat building in the living room SK
• 12.00 – 12.30 “Possibilities for achieving carbon neutrality in recreational boating (international study)” Péter Böröcz – Association of Shipowners
• 12.30 – 13.00 “Smart ports, port construction challenges on Lake Balaton” – discussion with András Viszkei, Gábor Kaszab, Ferenc Érdi, Péter Böröcz – Association of Shipping Entrepreneurs
• 13.00 – 13.30 Hungarian Maritime Technology – career choice and vocational training presentation
• 13.30 – 14.00 YS Trophy award ceremony MVSZ Farkas Péter
• 14.00 – 14.30 Ypsilon Yacht Club, the newest 300 berth marina on the north coast and Alsóörs
• 14.30 – 15.00 Cold Legion
• 15.00 – 16.00 “SSL Mini Gold Cup” qualification, four boat race with model sailing boats – live streaming from the pool on stage and on-line
• 16.00 – 16.30 BAHART Regatta 2023/2024
• 16.30 – 17.00 “The international and the Hungarian shipping industry in the light of the 2022 figures” Péter Böröcz – Association of Shipowners
• 17.00 – 17.30 J70 the new OD class domestic and international adventures

Saturday 24 February

• 10.00 – 11.00 BBS cinema
• 11.00 – 11.30 DN – the magic of ice sailing
• 11.30 – 12.00 Raffica and René Lazard’s youth team – a report on the state of the national Libera youth team
• 12.00 – 12.45 Blue Ribbon 2024 35 feet Decision 35 – Ferenc Schwarcz (RibStroy)Decision 35 – Zsolt Lovas (Audax Django)Decision 35 – Virág Flóra (Team Kaáli)Decision 35 – Gergely Bödör (Mercedes) Ventilo 35 – János Váradi Szabó (Nanushka)
• 13.00 – 13.45 Blue Ribbon 2024 over 45 feetAC 45 Light Wind – Gábor Büki (Bogi)AC 45 Light Wind – Kristóf Kaiser (Prospex-Delta)AC 45 Light Wind – Róbert Vándor (RSM)AC45 Light Wind – Litkey Farkas (Process Solutions – Marietta)Pauger 50 – Józsa Márton (Raiffeisen Fifty-Fifty)
• 14.00 – 15.00 Gábor Rakonczay – adventures aboard the “42
• 15.00 – 16.00 “SSL Mini Gold Cup” qualification, four boat race with model sailing boats – live streaming from the pool on stage and on-line
• 16.00 – 17.00 What will Lake Tisza look like in 2050? What lies ahead for Lake Tisza?: Pessimistic and optimistic scenario by filmmaker Dimitry Lyasuk (In the Name of the Tisza, Island of Good Hope and Lake Tisza – the man-made paradise films), advertising expert
• 17.00 – 17.30 BBS cinema

Sunday 25 February

• 10.00 – 11.00 BBS cinema
• 11.00 – 11.30 Amateur boat builders’ community – boat building in the living room SK
• 11.30 – 12.00 Pirate successes and the youth, EB 2023 Gabó Sallai and Anna Pay’r on the podium, youngsters in a classic boat
• 12.00 – 12.30 J24 present and future, Saturday Regattas + Club Racing (BYC) J24 OB Keszthely 2024 September, HUNJ24 WestFleet, J24 U25 Clubs Championship – Benedek Fluck
• 12.30 – 13.00 Amateur boat builders’ community – boat building in the living room SK
• 13.00 – 13.45 Shamans on stage – SSL Team World Champion presentation and signing  
• 14.00 – 15.00 “SSL Mini Gold Cup” DRAWING, four boat race with model sailing boats – live stream from the pool on stage and on-line
• 15.00 – 15.30 “SSL Mini Gold Cup” Awards Ceremony
• 15.30 – 16.00 BBS cinema

The stream programmes will be available on vitorlázzitthon.hu.

The organisers reserve the right to change the programme