I’m hearing an awful lot of chatter about yachts and Dubai these days. There’s a big boat show coming up this year, and for the first time, many charter companies plan to exhibit there.

I also learned this week that Dockwise Transport, a company whose ships carry yachts across large stretches of ocean, has completed its first transit to Dubai. The ship started out in Florida, stopped off in Italy, and then delivered a good number of yachts to the Middle East destination.

All of this tells me that the international yachting community is beginning to embrace Dubai as a place where yachts can be safely kept and used–and that typically means that not too far off in the distance, some of those yachts will be offered for charter.

Is Dubai going to be the next big charter destination? Will people from the States and Europe want to go on charter vacations in the Middle East? Only time will tell.

But to my eye, the pieces are falling into place rather quickly.

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