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I jsut talked w/ scotty....
Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:31:43 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... wrote: On Jan 24, 5:26 pm, HK wrote: Eisboch wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... He and Uncle Tommy are enjoying the Boat show. Lots of boats, and he's having a blast. he said he keeps losing Tom, Kind of like tracking somebody in a mall. LOL! While I was on the phone w/him, I could ehar Tom in the background saying "DUDE!" Hope to hear a good report later.... Gee. Never got an invite. Must be my deodorant. Eisboch Is this the hartford show? It never much impressed me. The new haven show was always better. In the good old days. The New England Sportsman Show, though, was always the biggest and best in the area. Blah, blah, blah.. we know... and last time you were up here, heating fuel was 15 cents.. What's the difference, a room full of boats is a room full of boats.. A room full? That's a boat show? A room full of boats? Sounds like a dealer's showroom. How many boats were at that show? :) Gotta admit though. That was funny. It was amusing. And it's not far from the truth - almost everybody at this years show downsized quite a bit or only brought half of what they brought last year. The Convention Center is half the size of the Boston Convention Center (at a guess - not much smaller than half) and it was 80% full of boats and displays. I heard that the Boston show this year was much smaller too, so that's a fairly good barometer. Next week will be the real tell tale - Providence is a major show and from what I've been hearing, dealers there have downsized also. Don't know - we'll see next weekend. -- If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? The Boston show I remember was at a different facility, probably long gone by now... :) |
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I jsut talked w/ scotty....
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:59:59 -0500, HK wrote:
Wizard of Woodstock wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:31:43 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... wrote: On Jan 24, 5:26 pm, HK wrote: Eisboch wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... He and Uncle Tommy are enjoying the Boat show. Lots of boats, and he's having a blast. he said he keeps losing Tom, Kind of like tracking somebody in a mall. LOL! While I was on the phone w/him, I could ehar Tom in the background saying "DUDE!" Hope to hear a good report later.... Gee. Never got an invite. Must be my deodorant. Eisboch Is this the hartford show? It never much impressed me. The new haven show was always better. In the good old days. The New England Sportsman Show, though, was always the biggest and best in the area. Blah, blah, blah.. we know... and last time you were up here, heating fuel was 15 cents.. What's the difference, a room full of boats is a room full of boats.. A room full? That's a boat show? A room full of boats? Sounds like a dealer's showroom. How many boats were at that show? :) Gotta admit though. That was funny. It was amusing. And it's not far from the truth - almost everybody at this years show downsized quite a bit or only brought half of what they brought last year. The Convention Center is half the size of the Boston Convention Center (at a guess - not much smaller than half) and it was 80% full of boats and displays. I heard that the Boston show this year was much smaller too, so that's a fairly good barometer. Next week will be the real tell tale - Providence is a major show and from what I've been hearing, dealers there have downsized also. Don't know - we'll see next weekend. The Boston show I remember was at a different facility, probably long gone by now... :) The old facility was a two story affair and fairly large. The new facility is in the same general area, but single story. Gorgeous place though and it wouldn't be unrealistic to describe it as cavernous. Last year when I went, they had a fully rigged Maxi racer in there with a 95 ft mast - the roof of the place was a good 20 feet away from the top of the mast. -- "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt |
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