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.