So, how does one erect a small city from nothing but water and a parking lot? With 100 people, 200 party tents, a fire hose as long as Main Street, 636 nails, submarine cable wiring long enough to extend to Baltimore and back, and a mile of floating docks. That’s how. The numbers of docks, tents, pilings, ramps, garbage bins, and cans of paint to pull off this mighty feat are astounding. Even more amazing is how much of the work is done from sunrise to sunset in the three days before the show.
“So, how does one erect a small city from nothing but water and a parking lot?” Sailboat Show operations manager J. Kolb, explains how many of his cruising friends may visit the show but don’t understand why he starts working on it so early. He says, “They have no idea how much planning goes into this, the sequence of all of the pieces, the way things have to be labeled. They’re not looking at 400 tent floor pieces,” he says. Kolb leads a crew who sets up camp off Edgewood Road in the dog days of summer—really—as it does tend to heat up right on August 1 for those
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