"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 18 Sep 2005 08:06:50 -0700, wrote:


*JimH* wrote:
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PocoLoco wrote:
On 15 Sep 2005 17:22:05 -0700, wrote:

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We had a great lunch and chatted for about an hour.


Glad to hear you had a nice time together.

How was attendance yesterday?

Excellent. Probably saved the show for a lot of people. We almost ran
out of magazines to pass out, and will before the end of the day today.
I need to go by the storeroom and grab a few bundles of previous issue
leftovers so that we aren't sitting there waving at the crowd from an
empty booth. :-)
My friend and one of our feature writers, Jim Wood, sold a few books so
he was pleased with the day as well.

Tide seminar was well attended, people asked good questions, and I even
earned a round of applause. Today is the D'Arcy Island talk again. This
is actually the most interesting of these two presentations (IMO), but
it has proven harder to get a good turnout for the D'Arcy presentation
at this and
previous boat shows. Oh well.

You probably did better than the Newport show - I just heard from
somebody that the place was practically deserted yesterday and
slightly more attendance today.

I'm going to the Norwalk show next weekend - should be interesting.

Our show (Cedar Point In-Water Boat Show) ends today. I have not heard any
feedback on attendance.

Did anyone here attend it?

"*JimH*" wrote in message
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Our show (Cedar Point In-Water Boat Show) ends today. I have not heard
any
feedback on attendance.

Did anyone here attend it?

I didn't.

Jim

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:16:12 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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I'm going to the Norwalk show next weekend - should be interesting.

Anyone going to the Annapolis show?

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


Glad to hear the crowds are showing up. It'd be nice to see some signs
that boating (and outdoor sports in general) arent' in decline among
Americans.


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.

Yep, they're salty all right. They don't have plumbing either, and they
kept very quiet about that part of the "salty" image when they were in
the Chesapeake... they didn't want a huge fine!

BTW Larry Pardey is a good sailor & writer, but he isn't all that
hardcore... Ask him how many times he begs tows from other cruising
boats. I'm one of a long long list of people who have towed him around.
And IMHO he isn't very gracious about saying thanks.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King