On 1/20/2013 2:06 AM, thumper wrote:
On 1/19/2013 8:46 PM, Chuck Gould wrote:
You guys from everywhere else but here, take a look a the Boat Show ad
for a look at a "typical" Seattle woman, enjoying "typical" Seattle
weather. :-)

digital.turn-page.com/i/101224/1


I was at the Portland boat show last Saturday afternoon (prime-time) for
the first time in several years and it was a ghost town.

They used fewer halls in the expo center and had many fewer exhibitors
than past years. Major manufacturers were absent, mostly just local
dealers. It was more like a used car lot with some new and used boats.
I was in and out in an hour or two. ThunderJet had the only two
inboard jets I was interested in. No NorthRiver, NorthWestJet,
PrecisionWeld, etc. There weren't even any big luxury cruisers.

Times must be tough.

These aren't happy days for many. It's surprising that you are just
waking up to the fact.