On Feb 1, 5:50?am, "Tim" wrote:
Looks like the global cooling finaly hit here int he mid west. No sub-
zero temps. but still haning in the low teens and twentys.

i keep telling myself, "just anouther 60 days to go..just another 60
days to go..."

Winter may be over in the Northwest. I hope. We had about two months
of almost non-stop rain, three enormous windstorms, and an unusual
spell of temperatures well below freezing.

While it has been cold at night, the days are primarily sunny and
bright. Just in time for the local boat show. Attendance last Saturday
set an all-time single day record for the show, and it's been average
or busier than average just about every other day. The January
sunshine has people thinking about, and absolutely buying boats. I
know of dealers that have sold their entire allocations for 2007, a
local catamaran dealer closed six boats all 26-feet or larger in one
day, and even the mega dealers are all smiling - all but whistling and
jingling pocket change as they stroll around the show. It looks like
it's going to be a *very* good year for the boat business, and that's
good news for private parties as well. The values of boats owned will
tend to be a bit higher- or at least not depreciate quite as quickly,
when there's a strong demand. (Sure hope all these new boats will find
moorage......)