The buzz I've heard is it might be a last-minute rush this year. There've been a lot of inquiries but not so many bookings. Obviously people are looking for more for their money this year. I predict that the season will start a bit later but hopefully will fill up wth last-minute bookings.

To the original poster, hope it picks up for you.

Parked, hibernated, laid up, mothballed...all new words for me this year.

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Some Kinda new world order ?   I doubt it.  I see a return to nationalism around the waterfront.  British dominated the marine industry over here  in the Med for years.  Each year I see less.  Study the development of the Balearic Island waterfront and you will see that the Spanish have taken back the controls of the whole waterfront.  Law suites are still being filed by aggrieved British..  Remember the huge Boat Yard Palma was British run.  As far as the Yachts . on my Quay I am the only foreigner out of 15 crewed yachts.....,  Opps forgot about the Dutch crew on the motoryacht.....  Very many Spanish captains and crews coming on line in the past decade.  Its actually a pleasure to be around local people, particularly the Spanish.  Breath of fresh air.  In this marina there were 6 charter brokers, I now see 4 and the two that recently went belly up are both British. 

   The British Aussie defect has always been that they don't speak languages.  This inability to speak  fed a whole industry of middle men who acted as translators for even the simplest task....do you have a slip available ?    Naturally they do !  at 3 times the normal rate.  Owners picked this up, saw the cost savings available and did what you would do.  Id say the same will happen back in the states.  A local boy is South Florida knows how and who to go to for best value.  The foreigner will be stuck  dealing with middlemen  and paying thru the nose.  This concept of local knowledge is the true value of a good yacht crew. 
   The big industrial strength motoryachts will probably be stuck with British Aussie crews for the foreseeable future.  Most people I know just don't like working on those floating duty free shopping malls.

 On the site observation Palma de Mallorca . The crisis is taking bite.
  
   Had a walk down the Paseo Maritimo in Palma yesterday checking out  all the parked megayachts, deserted, wind blasted,  sad sight indeed, almost   Dickensonian  "a cesspool, bubbling and seething with the constant rise of the foul products of decomposition." With grubby, "consumptive-looking ducks" swimming upon it.

    Crossed the street and wandered into the German quarter.  Place looks like Baghdad  with deep trenches dug around yacht brokerages and Bunkers springing up on every street corner.  Green zone forming.  Tense, stand clear.

  Over in the Old Town all the British bars are boarded up, air raid sirens wailing. Queen preparing to address the hungry hoards of dayworkers and sunken eyed stewardess's.  Looks like mandatory food rationing.

  Inside the French Quarter the streets were lined with homemade white flags flying proud with  "La Marseillaise'  softy playing in the background.    They  have capitulated .

  All along the seawall in front of Varadaro were gangs of sunburnt  BN's,  sitting on the rail,  high fiving,  crack'n jokes and  building barbeque's ,    preparing for a Sardine  feast.   Look'n good.....we win again.     IN US THEY TRUST

It takes all kinds to be creeps. But since the rest of  your post is so baseless and stupid for me to respond, I'll just leave it at that.  Ecck!

How do you say "dork" in the Queen's English?   Dork or 'Dark'?