Boat Shows: Are They Still Relevant?
This Sailor Says Yes Photo by Mark Talbott
by Steve Allan
A
friend of mine, upon learning I write for SpinSheet, warned (or perhaps threatened) me to never write about commissioning, winterizing, or boat shows. Having already ignored his advice on the first topic, and with an outline of the second in the works, I’m forging right ahead with the latter in the trilogy of taboo sailing writer topics. I could understand his admonishment in a way. A lot of us write about boat shows, usually on the cusp of their coming to town, and usually with great anticipation and sometimes with manufacturer-friendly product reviews and glossy photographs of gleaming new boats surrounded by hordes of interested buyers. Perhaps the reviews have become too familiar. For the exhibitors at these shows, of course, that is the whole point. Rather obviously, they want us to buy their stuff.
42 September 2012 SpinSheet
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