Larry W4CSC wrote:
Oh, I forgot......I met someone who always goes to boat shows in
street shoes wearing socks with holes in them. He agrees with me that
you should always look at boats wearing the same clothes you mow the
lawn in so they stop hovering around you like a pack of wolves around
a lamb.

So very true. The first couple of years I went in bluejeans and
teeshirts and nobody but Peggie and Peter Kennedy would give me the time
of day. Then I changed to Duckheads and a Ceasar's Palace golf shirt
and the Hunter people almost kidnapped me. The Hunter salesman cornered
me in the head and wouldn't let me out until he got my address and phone
number. Still didn't get much help at the Harken booth. I think they
have to have seen your picture in a sailing mag before they will talk to
you.

I hope this year will be different. I have $30K to order hardware,
rigging and spars between now and the first of the year and a bunch of
questions. I wonder if it is possible to call in advance and arrange an
appointment?

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
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"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
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I hope this year will be different. I have $30K to order hardware,
rigging and spars between now and the first of the year and a bunch of
questions. I wonder if it is possible to call in advance and arrange an
appointment?

absolutely. They'd much prefer that, usually before or after the show
hours, unless it's absolutely dead. A list of what you're shopping for will
get them both salivating and sharpening their pencils if you let them know
who *else* you'll be seeing.

Been there, done that...

L8R

Skip


--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The first couple of years I went in bluejeans and
teeshirts and nobody but Peggie and Peter Kennedy would give me the time
of day.

I treat everyone the same way, 'cuz you never know who's "somebody" and
who isn't unless they're a celebrity. One year at the Annapolis show, I
spent about 45 minutes going over the relative merits of various toilets
with someone who was just a nice man in slacks, tee shirt and pair of
WELL worn topsiders. If he hadn't given me his card to send him
literature, I'd have had to have memorized the entire "who's who" of
whole Fortune 500 to know I'd just spent 45 minutes with the COB of a
major airline.


Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327
http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:12:46 GMT, Peggie Hall
wrote:

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The first couple of years I went in bluejeans and
teeshirts and nobody but Peggie and Peter Kennedy would give me the time
of day.

I treat everyone the same way, 'cuz you never know who's "somebody" and
who isn't unless they're a celebrity. One year at the Annapolis show, I
spent about 45 minutes going over the relative merits of various toilets
with someone who was just a nice man in slacks, tee shirt and pair of
WELL worn topsiders. If he hadn't given me his card to send him
literature, I'd have had to have memorized the entire "who's who" of
whole Fortune 500 to know I'd just spent 45 minutes with the COB of a
major airline.


Peggie

This is true. My friend Dan and I went to the little Charleston Boat
Show at the North Charleston Coliseum a couple of years back. Dan had
sold his Hatteras 56 and wanted a "small boat" with outboard to cruise
around the harbor in.

I warned him not to dress in his MUSC Doctor's Suit so we could poke
around in the boats and be ignored by the hawks. The lawn boy
uniforms worked great. We finally narrowed it down to a couple and
were poking around in a Grady White 20' runabout with a walk-through
windshield and nice bow seats with Yam 150 EFI engine on a nice
aluminum trailer. I was poking around in a cabinet when this nice
young man came over to see if he could help us.

Dan says to me in the cabinet, "What do you think?" To which I
snapped my fingers and said, from still inside the cabinet,
"Checkbook!" They had a nice discount on it for the show as most
Grady-White buyers want a CC for fishing Dan could care less about.
He turns to the astonished kid and says, "Can we pay for it now and
pick it up Monday from your store on Savannah Highway?" By that time
the "important suits" had taken more of a passing interest, about the
time Dan and the kid were sashaying over to the card table to complete
the contract. The looks on their faces having just lost a $35,000
sale on a hard-to-move boat was.....well.....Priceless...(c;

Myself, I thought the grass stained sneakers he was wearing at the
contract table went well with the green card table and foldin'
chairs....The kid seemed to like them, too!....(c;



Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?

x-no-archive:yes Peggie Hall wrote:

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The first couple of years I went in bluejeans and
teeshirts and nobody but Peggie and Peter Kennedy would give me the time
of day.

I treat everyone the same way, 'cuz you never know who's "somebody" and
who isn't unless they're a celebrity. One year at the Annapolis show, I

It's polite to treat everyone with respect. The fact that you do
shows that you are a class act. (which we all know of course). The
fact that so few people know that being polite and helpful to everyone
regardless of their appearance or station in life is a sad commentary
on the upbringing and manners and maybe even the ethics of the
majority.

spent about 45 minutes going over the relative merits of various toilets
with someone who was just a nice man in slacks, tee shirt and pair of
WELL worn topsiders. If he hadn't given me his card to send him
literature, I'd have had to have memorized the entire "who's who" of
whole Fortune 500 to know I'd just spent 45 minutes with the COB of a
major airline.


Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327
http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

grandma Rosalie
http://www12.virtualtourist.com/m/4a9c6/

Subject: Boat Show Shoes?
From: Glenn Ashmore

I hope this year will be different. I have $30K to order hardware,
rigging and spars between now and the first of the year and a bunch of
questions. I wonder if it is possible to call in advance and arrange an
appointment?

Just tow the cash behind you in a glass safe with a little red wagon. That
should get their attention. :-)

Capt. Bill