Boat show report
Yes, that’s me standing at our booth at the Annapolis Boat Show.Notice the nice floating dock sample to my right. It looked so good most people thought it was a table.
This J-122 popped a spinnaker just as he cleared the docks during the annual tear down ritual. Boats are cheered on by bystanders, usually who have had too many painkillers from Pussers.
‘Jolie Blon’ on a downwind run. Click the photo so see a larger view.
I did manage to get this photo before I left. Looking out over little bay across to lot 48 and then into Vandemere Creek beyond. I took the shot from where the clubhouse is going to sit.
Wednesday October 10, 2007
Its been quite a week! The boat show was an absolute success and I want to thank everyone that stopped by to visit our booth. We met some really neat people in Annapolis, from the attendees to our neighboring vendors that suffered with us in the sweltering heat. Isn’t this supposed to be October! The forecast here at home does call for fall to return tonight, just in time for our fall sailing club cruise to visit Paradise Shores in Broad Creek.After all those beautiful, fancy boats I saw last week, I still like the classic lines and simplicity of my old 82 Hunter 30, ‘Betsy’, although she is much in need of a bath…I digress, our love of boats is truly what is so inspiring about living on the water. To have that boat, of whatever size, in your backyard or at the marina reminds us what life is supposed to be about. They symbolize freedom, simpler times, pure joy. All you have to do is look at the thousands of people flocking to the boat show to see that this is a common dream.
Which brings me to Pete Rollins of lot 42. He has sent me a photo of his pride and joy ‘Jolie Blon’ going 7 knots under a symmetrical spinnaker, don’t see a lot of those around anymore. A beautiful day, surfing down waves under full sail. It doesn’t get much better! Thanks for the photo Pete!The eyes and ears in Vandemere tell me the crews are still hard at work, although I haven’t been down there since we got back into town. I expect the dozers have started grading by now.
