Chuck Gould wrote:
On May 1, 10:01?am, Harry Krause wrote:

The video was produced by a boat trade association. If boats and boating
weren't "instrumental" in it, the trade group wouldn't have paid for it.


So?

Don't forget where you came from, Harry. You have posted time and time
again that your father was the largest boat (or maybe it was outboard)
dealer on a major portion of the east coast for X number of decades.


My dad for a number of years sold more Evinrude outboard motors than any
other dealer in New England. His was nowhere near the largest boat
dealership in that part of the country. Where you got your idea about
the size of my dad's dealership is beyond me.


Grow Boating is an organization designed not to market specific boats,
but to spread the word to the non-boating public about the joys of
recreational boating. Have you noticed that, in general, the average
age of people hanging around at marinas seems to go up about one year
every 12 months? Bringing new participants into boating is important
in many ways, and increasing the number of potential boat buyers is
not really at the top of the list. Would you, or anyone else for that
matter, be eager to buy a boat if you felt that when you were ready to
sell it there would be no market for it at all? We all depend upon an
infrastructure that requires a certain critical mass to sustain
itself; fuel docks, boat ramps, marinas, supply houses, repair shops,
etc all start disappearing when the number of boaters falls off. We
all benefit when new people take up boating.


The preceding commercial announcement was brought to rec.boats by Chuck
"Don't Call Me a Spammer" Gould.