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Old 10-13-2008
labatt labatt is online now
I'd rather be sailing
 
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Two Sport-A-Seats, Sunbrella leftovers to make seat covers out of, Weems-Plath portable chart table with parallel rules and compass rose built in, chart tube, over-the-fence ice cream and a couple of painkillers . We looked at RIB's (think we settled on a Caribe 9X [West Marine has the lowest price around on it believe it or not]), generators, AC units, mattresses (think we're going latex), Drippless Shafts, fishing stuff [neat booth where a guy builds short stubby rods with 80lb test just to troll off the back of a sailboat) and various other odds and ends. It was a most educational show for us as we also learned how to strip a winch apart, went to a diesel basics seminar (a bit too basic, but our 11 year old son learned a lot) and a Cruising with Kids seminar where we met several cruising families we'll have to hook up with. By the way, did I mention we're now seriously considering leaving to cruise in 4 weeks instead of in a year and a half (if we can make it happen with regards to work stuff, which I doubt). We actually only went on one boat the entire show.
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