Try-a-Boat

Glide across the waters under sail or hurtle out across the Solent in a high-speed RIB. It’s free and offers something for everyone!

Try-a-Boat is always one of the show’s top attractions as it provides visitors with the chance to get out on the water and experience sailing a yacht, a motorboat or the power of a RIB blasting around Southampton water.

Try-a-boat is included in the price of your show ticket, so visitors can experience one, or all, of these fantastic activities at no extra cost.

Also part of the Try-a-Boat line up, providing fully accessible crafts, are ‘Wetwheels’, who provide all disabled people, including those with profound and complex disabilities, access to the sea in a safe, stimulating and rewarding way and ‘Active Nation’, the charity on a mission to persuade the nation to be active.