Well....went to the boat show. It was in Boston at the new convention center as oppose to the Bayside Expo as it's been in years past.
Overall I though it was nice. But they fancied it up quit a bit more than it was when it was at the expo. Some displays, ie: the Russo Marine SeaRay are, I felt like I needed suit and tie to get in.
But, being me and they type od poeple I assosiciate with we really didn't care.
A couple of things I did have an issue with....
1. We were asked at almost every boat vendor to remove our shoes and wear socks only on board. Well, in the past boat shoes were always welcome. I mean...they are boats we are looking at. For the oney they charge for boats and admission to the event I think they could lay a carpet on the deck and not inconvenience potential customers.
So I boarde one boat and i left my shoes on...boat shoes, docksides, whaterver you want to call them...this sales woman tried to embarrass me in front of a large groupe of people about wearing my shoes on this $300,000.00 boat. So I told her if a boat cost that much it should be able to handle a pair of "boat" shoes on deck and if it couldn't that I would not buy it. zEveryone laughed. Ii took my shoes off and looked at the boat. It wasn't that impressive.
2. Aluminum boats...long sotry short because I'm going to create a new thread about this.
They shot the hull, a display piece, with supposedly a .45. It dented the hull but did not penetrate. They were using this to show the strength of the design. Then they showed another hole and were passing it off as an armor piercing round. It looked about the size of a 45 but it had raised edges on both sides of the hole. I was suspect that they used an armor piercing round to creat that hole. I would assume that the entry would be dented or formed to into the hole and the exit would have the raised edge.
Otherwise, show was great. I picked up another 9'er rig and we had a really good time.
Oh, nobody was giving out tide charts and the candy was sparce. I only managed three tootsie rolls the hole night.
16 oz. beers int he aluminum cans...bud and bud lite or wine. Beer was $5.50.