Tomorrow marks the beginning of the four-day Monaco Yacht Show (MYS), one of the year’s most eagerly anticipated get-togethers for the luxury-boat industry. A quirk of the business is that, with build times generally around three or four years for an average superyacht, insiders have known for a while that 2017 was going to be a golden year as a cadre of new boats set sail. “About half of the fleet of 125 yachts at the show are less than two years old,” says Gaëlle Tallarida, managing director of MYS. She is expecting a better turnout than the 34,000 people who visited her stands last year, when the industry was still emerging from a protracted slump in the aftermath of the global recession. “More than 40 yachts are being launched this year as world premieres.”