*JimH* wrote:
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I arrived at my boat show booth for the 11AM opening and discovered
that an early morning visitor had stopped by and left a business card.
Peggie Hall.

I called her cell phone and we agreed to try to do lunch while she's in
Seattle.

Small world part two: scheduled immediately after me on the seminar
stage today? Peggie Hall. :-)

What fun to meet this very nice lady, I'm looking forward to lunch.


So how was lunch and the seminar?

Lunch will be today, Sat.

Seminars have been sparsely attended so far on he first few weekdays of
the show. In fact, the gate has not been all that good for the show
overall. Rainy weather on Friday morning hurt the show yesterday. My
crowd for the first session of "Lunatic Tides" was small, but they said
they found the presentation entertaining and informative (you could see
the "light coming on" in a few cases) and so AFAIAC that makes the time
spent worthwhile. The first session of the "D'Arcy Island" talk was
sparsely attended as well, and plagued by a "slide show" problem (!)
Grrr.......

I'll check out Peggie's talk this morning. Crowds will be much larger
(everybody hopes) now that the weekend is here.

I have been able to meet a couple of world famous sailors, Lyn and
Larry Pardey. Their booth is right next to mine at the show. What a
couple of nice folks, and salty as heck. Larry tells me he doesn't even
have an engine in his boat, and has to sail everywhere under any and
all conditions.
(He does have a dinghy with an outboard, so he can tow his boat through
locks, etc, where it isn't permissable to sail). That's pretty
hardcore.