Fort Lauderdale Boat Show Closes Sunday: FLIBS Final Day Runs 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
The 67th Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show ends Sunday, November 1, with its shortest day of the week — 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. across six waterfront venues, online-only tickets and no box office on site.
Sunday is the last chance. The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show — FLIBS, the largest in-water boat show in the world — closes its 67th edition on Sunday, November 1, and the final day is the short one: gates open at 10 a.m. and close at 5 p.m., two hours earlier than the 7 p.m. closings the show kept from Thursday through Saturday.
The scale is the same as it has been all week: more than 1,300 boats and 1,000 exhibiting brands spread across six waterfront locations in Fort Lauderdale — Bahia Mar Yachting Center, the Broward County Convention Center, Hall of Fame Marina, Las Olas Marina, Pier Sixty-Six and Superyacht Village. Complimentary shuttles connect the venues, running from an hour before the show opens to an hour after it closes.
Two practical warnings for Miami readers making the trip north. First, tickets are sold exclusively online — there is no onsite box office — so a phone with the ticket already bought is the price of entry. Second, Sunday is also the wet turn in the local forecast and the last day of early voting, so the drive up I-95 shares the road with voters, Dolphins traffic and rain; Brightline to Fort Lauderdale, with the free shuttle from the station toward the show, is the low-stress route the guides point to.
After Sunday's 5 p.m. close, the docks clear and South Florida's boat-show calendar turns toward winter. For anyone who waited for the final day to walk the piers, the advice from every guide this desk read is the same: arrive at the 10 a.m. opening, start at the venue farthest from where you park, and work back.
