Saturday, October 9, 2010

Boat Show

We made it down to Annapolis for the sailboat show, and we've already seen some familiar faces. Funny, you read the cruising blogs, trying to live their dream from your computer, and then you bump into them. You wonder if they get creeped out when you say, "I read your blog, how's the cat been feeling." I myself think back on older blog posts, and wonder if someday someone will come up to me and ask me if I ever got those davits installed, or "you looked so funny with that towel around your head, pretending to be Indian". Worse, "you think you're funny with that bath towel on your head, I curse your family, you..." 

So today we'll hit the tents looking for a deal on refrigeration. I'm not a guy that can swing deals. If I don't hear the right price, I just walk away, so this should be interesting. I know what I want, and there are several manufacturers out there, so we'll see how well we do. Neither one replied to my e-mails requesting a quote, and I will bring that up.
Hopefully we will run into more bloggers, so I can creep them out.

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for putting up the IWAC badge. You rock.

    And...having lived in Ithaca for 7 years, I agree about the white death.

    - Livia

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  2. as we were one of the familiar faces you saw at the boat show had to check in on your blog. hope you had luck finding the refrigeration you wanted. We got a few deals ourselves. Bob has spent the last 2 days doing some installations on the boat. Hopefully in a day or two we will be heading south ourselves - best wishes to you both!
    Bob & Janice
    sv Tsamaya

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  3. another small world item - I see you follow sv Kismet - we met them at the 7 Seas Assoc GAM and found out they were from the old "neighborhood"
    Bob & Janice
    sv Tsamaya

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  4. Bob, Janice,
    Chose a refrigeration system, with a boat show discount, so we saved 15%. Not bad. No deals on solar, wind. We're almost there.
    Have fun heading south! We'll be watching :)
    Paul,Deb

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