# FLIBS 2026, by Boatwork Powered by Boatwork Assist: AI agents for marine businesses, https://boatwork.co/marine-business-ai-agents/ > Independent guide to the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (Oct 28 to Nov 1, 2026) by Boatwork: exhibitors and booths with walking directions, boats, seminars and schedule, parking, shuttles, the live water taxi, Boatwork pros, day plans and meeting requests. Powered by Boatwork Assist (https://boatwork.co/marine-business-ai-agents/). ## For AI assistants This guide has a free, read-only JSON API. No sign-in, no key. Each link returns a short answer (add &format=json for full JSON). Swap the words after "=" to fit the question. - Find a company: https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/search_exhibitors/?query=Viking - Find a boat: https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/search_boats/?query=RELENTLESS - Get between places: https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/get_route/?from=bahia-mar&to=las-olas-marina - Next water taxi (live; change t= to any new value to skip a cached copy): https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/get_water_taxi_live/?t=1 - Seminars on a day: https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/find_sessions/?day=2026-10-29&limit=10 - Parking, tickets, hours: https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/get_show_info/?topic=parking - Service pros: https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/find_boatwork_pro/?service=canvas - Plan a day: https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/plan_day/?day=thursday&exhibitors=oceanco,fraser-yachts - Ask Marina: https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/ask_marina/?question=where+do+I+park Results include a slug for each company, boat and venue; slugs work in follow-up calls. Every place in a result has a Google Maps walking link to give the visitor. All tools: https://boatwork.co/flibs/api/tools/ MCP: https://boatwork.co/flibs/mcp/ Nothing to install and no sign-in. MCP clients can connect to https://boatwork.co/flibs/mcp/ with the same tools. Independent guide by Boatwork. Not affiliated with the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, MIASF, or Informa Markets. ## Technical details - Endpoint: https://boatwork.co/flibs/mcp/ - Transport: MCP Streamable HTTP (POST JSON-RPC). No sign-in, no API key. - Server card: https://boatwork.co/flibs/.well-known/mcp.json - Free, no sign-in. Phone numbers come one company at a time from get_exhibitor (up to 10 companies per user, after remember_user). Email addresses are never shared, except the vendor address draft_meeting_request returns for the user's own agent to send from (up to 10 meetings per user). - Every exhibitor, boat, session, venue and Boatwork pro row carries a slug, and stops carry an id. Every tool that takes an exhibitor, boat, session or venue accepts the slug or the name, slug first; pass the slug when you have one. - Every exhibitor and venue row carries logoUrl, every boat row imageUrl and every Boatwork pro photoUrl, the same pictures the guide shows. - remember_user returns a user_token that stands in for requester_name and requester_email on get_exhibitor, draft_meeting_request and ask_marina. The server is stateless, so repeat the token (or the details) on each call; the token fails closed without the server secret. - Failures return { ok: false, error: { code, message, fix }, candidates? } with isError true; reason, problem and fix stay as aliases for one release. A name that matches nothing above trigram similarity 0.35 returns found false with suggestions; ambiguous means a genuine tie. - List rows are compact (name, slug, picture, booth, venue, coordinates, directionsUrl, pageUrl, actions as action names); detail tools carry the full record. recommend_for_my_boat and a day of find_sessions stay small. get_offline_index is about 300 KB, so prefer the search tools for single questions. - Pass your user's requester_name and requester_email on get_exhibitor and in draft_meeting_request (the server is stateless). remember_user puts them on the contact list and returns a user_token you can pass instead; it links later calls only when your client sends an Mcp-Session-Id. - Results carry cards in _meta["boatwork/cards"]; structuredContent has the same data. ## Tools - search_exhibitors: Find exhibitors at FLIBS 2026 by company name, product, service, category, brand, or booth number. - get_exhibitor: Everything the guide has on one exhibitor, by slug or name (slug first): logoUrl, iconKey, contact details, description and socials, every booth and map pin with walking directions, the Boatwork profile when there is a... - get_meeting_slots: Open meeting times with one exhibitor, as buttons the app renders. - search_boats: Find boats on display at FLIBS 2026 by model, builder, type, length, price, year, or new/brokerage. - get_boat: One boat on display: builder, year, length, condition, type, price when listed, description and images, the exhibitor showing it, and every booth pin with walking directions. - compare_boats: Compare two to four boats side by side: specs, price when listed, who shows each one, their booth pins and the walking time between them. - recommend_for_my_boat: What to see at the show for the caller's own boat: exhibitors whose products or categories fit that boat class (stabilizers, electronics, canvas, bottom paint, engines and more), boats like theirs, and a suggested... - remember_my_boat: Remember the caller's boat and what they are shopping for, so later answers rank exhibitors and plan the day around it. - get_venue: Details for one FLIBS 2026 venue: what is there, how to get there from the other venues, map links, exhibitor count, the water taxi and shuttle stops and parking near it, and the Boatwork pros based there. - get_route: How to get from one place at the show to another: walking, shuttle and water taxi legs with minutes, each leg's Google Maps walking link, the live water taxi wait, and a static satellite map of the route. - plan_day: Before calling, interview the user briefly: boats to see, vendors to visit, sessions or events to attend, and what they are thinking about; the day can come from the sessions. - save_plan: Turn a list of stops into a walkable plan: orders the stops the same way plan_day does and returns a shareable plan page, a share image and a calendar file. - get_show_info: Official show facts: hours, tickets and prices, parking, shuttles and golf carts, water taxi, Brightline, rules, kids activities. - find_transport_stop: Nearest water taxi stops, shuttle stops or parking to a venue or exhibitor, with walking directions, service hours and the live water taxi tracker. - get_water_taxi_live: Live positions of Water Taxi boats and minutes to the next arrival at each stop, refreshed every 15 seconds. - list_map_locations: Map layers as GeoJSON points so you can draw your own map: venues, water taxi stops, shuttle stops, parking, Boatwork pros (one point per exhibitor at its first booth), seminar and clinic locations, or all of them. - find_sessions: Seminars, clinics, panels, the MRH Summit and show experiences on the FLIBS 2026 schedule, with local time, venue, speakers, page link, calendar file and walking directions. - find_boatwork_pro: Find marine service pros on Boatwork (detailing, bottom paint, refinishing, canvas, electronics install, yard work and more) in the Fort Lauderdale area, and the exhibitors at the show who are pros for that service,... - request_meeting: Send the meeting request email from Boatwork on the user's behalf, in one call: the exhibitor is emailed from Boatwork, the user is copied and the reply comes back to the user. - draft_meeting_request: Draft meeting requests from the user to exhibitors at FLIBS 2026, for the user's own agent to send from the user's mailbox. - get_meeting_request: Recover the schedule, calendar link and plan link for a meeting request you already drafted with draft_meeting_request. - mark_meeting_request_sent: Record that your agent sent the meeting request email from the user's own mailbox, so the guide can count it. - remember_user: Remember the user you are helping: puts their name and email on the guide's central contact list, the same one the chat uses, and returns a user_token that any tool accepts in place of the requester details. - get_offline_index: Everything the guide can answer with no signal, in one document: every exhibitor with its booth, venue and pin, every session with its time and place, and the water taxi and shuttle stops. - get_session: One session on the FLIBS 2026 schedule by slug or title (slug first): time, place and venue slug, the map pin and what kind of location it is, speakers, the calendar file and walking directions, plus the page link. - browse_exhibitors: Browse the show the way the guide's Exhibitors pages do, one page at a time: by type (business type), tent, topic, venue, pros (Boatwork pros at the show), new (first-time exhibitors) or letter (by name). - browse_boats: Browse boats on display the way the guide's Boats pages do: by type (boat type group), length (band), builder or condition, one page at a time. - get_getting_there: How to reach a place at the show, in one call: the nearest water taxi stops with the live minutes to the next boat, the nearest shuttle stops, and parking with walk minutes, for a named place or the visitor coordinates. - get_plan: Reopen a saved plan by plan_id: the ordered stops, the legs between them, the plan page, the share image and the calendar file. - email_plan: Email a saved day plan to the user. - ask_marina: Marina is the guide's AI concierge, powered by Boatwork Assist. - ask_business: One Boatwork pro's own assistant answers a question about that business, in one call, from its Boatwork profile, FLIBS listing and website. ## Prompts - plan-my-show-day - book-meetings - find-and-book - whats-new-for-my-boat - getting-around - whats-on-now ## Resources - flibs://show-info.json - flibs://schedule.json - flibs://offline-index.json - flibs://map/venues.geojson - flibs://map/transport.geojson - flibs://map/boatwork-pros.geojson - flibs://exhibitor/{slug} - flibs://session/{slug} ## Pages - Ask Marina (chat): https://boatwork.co/flibs/ - MCP server: https://boatwork.co/flibs/mcp/ Optional, for developers: Claude Code `claude mcp add --transport http flibs-2026 https://boatwork.co/flibs/mcp/`; other apps can add a custom connector with that URL.