What did you see at the boat show?

I think the headliner utility and longevity issues depend a lot on the knowledge and experience of the manufacturer and the subsequent selection of quality materials being installed in the proper manner.

Some less experienced manufacturers or boat owners using these type of materials, especially of inferior grade, will get mixed, sometimes poor, results.

The headliner on my Sea Ray is at least 3/4" thick, and composed of multiple layers of various materials designed to insulate and breathe, and has never shown any condensation or mold/mildew. The whole boat shows experience and quality in construction and materials, and after 20 years, shows very little wear and deterioration inside and outside.

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
What I saw that I liked. The transom on the Venture 23. WOW, High, nice with good storage and the battery storage too. Also, really nice big useful cockpit steps and storage. Maybe :idea: I could talk Oldgrowth Dave, into cutting my boat in half and putting on a V-23 stern and transom. :thup

What I really liked. Talking to Jim King about the future of the "Alaska Series" inflatables. Good things coming. A new PNW dealer who is, shall I say, a bit more responsive to the customer, and more fitting with the Jim King quality philosophy. Yes my friends, the infamous "Alaska Series" is going to be available at Island Marine Center on Lopez Island. :thup :thup 2007 Jim sold 85 boats, 2008 Inflatable Boatworks sold 15. He is looking for a better year this year. Folks looking for a great inflatable might want to check out the IMC crew. They are just a few minutes from Friday Harbor if you are up there for the CBGT.

Great fun at the SBS and CBGT-09. Glad we could see you there.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
hardee":1z0ox3on said:
Talking to Jim King about the future of the "Alaska Series" inflatables. Good things coming. A new PNW dealer who is, shall I say, a bit more responsive to the customer, and more fitting with the Jim King quality philosophy. Yes my friends, the infamous "Alaska Series" is going to be available at Island Marine Center on Lopez Island. :thup :thup 2007 Jim sold 85 boats, 2008 Inflatable Boatworks sold 15. He is looking for a better year this year. Folks looking for a great inflatable might want to check out the IMC crew. They are just a few minutes from Friday Harbor if you are up there for the CBGT.
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That is extremely good news. I had some very frustrating experiences with IBW last year (involving a lot of finger-pointing between King and IBW), which led to a very strained relationship between myself and Jim. I did not want to post a message trashing the Alaska Series because the problem was really with IBW, yet I wanted to warn Brats about potential problems. Fortunately the occasion never arose and now I can post a positive message about the Alaska Series, which I think is a great dink.

From everything I have heard about IMC, they are a class operation. I've talked to them about the Ocean Sport Roamer 30 (on my short-list of possible next boats.)

Warren
 
I can vouch for the integrity of the IMC folks because they are storing my boat on their premises and they are taking very good care of it while I am 850 miles away. They provide me with piece of mind.

That's good news about their carrying the Alaska series because I am considering a replacement for my current dinghy, and it makes me happy to have opportunities to help out the local businesses on Lopez whenever possible. It isn't easy to make a go of it on a small island like that. Lopez and its inhabitants and businesses are real gems, and they work very hard to maintain a self-sufficient community based on trusting relationships and volunteerism.
 
Jay said, Speaking of the businesses on Lopez Island,
"....while I am 850 miles away. They provide me with piece of mind.

That's good news about their carrying the Alaska series because I am considering a replacement for my current dinghy, and it makes me happy to have opportunities to help out the local businesses on Lopez whenever possible. "
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Jay, are you going to be in the area for July 4 this year? I heard there may be some C-Brats in the area for the 4th. Would like to get to cross wakes some time.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
HI everyone Loree and I had a great time here in Seattle for the show and the gathering. We liked the Tomcat with it's big bed up front and lots of storage .We also liked what they did to our cape cruiser(venture) lots more storage and better finish .I think C-dory (Fluid )will do good and I wish them great success. If we win the lottery it will be between the 25Ranger or the 255 tomcat.

We also like the Larkspur hotel we hope we can stay there again . Thanks again for the Waggoner I'm trying to get my friend interested in renting a boat up in the sanjuans this summer .

Just a side note we lost a set of car keys at the hotel the mgr . sent them next day to us. fed-ex . What Great customer service we need to keep busineses like that alive and well .
 
Capital Sea- Yes you will find foam under the forward section of the vberth. We have been considering this and aren't sure if it would be worth the mess. Karl
 
Larkspur, rooms very nice, prices reasonable. Meeting room, Sorry, but my opinion is that it was too small. Sure nice otherwise. Sure do appreciate all the work that went into setting it up though, and the ease of getting to and from.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
I saw on the Whaler forum that the factory only had 12 boats on the line recently because their sales are way down. For those of you that went to the factory party, has did it look like production had been significantly reduced? Or was it business as usual?
 
Jon, Anyone who owns part of the AquaSoxs is all right by me!

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while I was at the show I sat in on some of the fishing seminars. I have been to a lot of these but always learn something new. Some little tidbit worth sitting thru all the rest of it. So here this years tidbit. Over the last year several out door retailers have been selling large plastic flasher at "on sale" prices. I saw 5 for $20 alot. Well they were cheap for a reason. All the ball bearing swivel where installed up side down. I thought that it did not matter which way the swivel pointed as long as it spun. The swivel is two parts one cupped over the other. If the half cupped over the other half is facing down, with the lip facing up or into the current there is enough pressure to force water into the swivel and destroy it. Now I had two that did not spin right this year, now I know why. I would have never guess that it matter but it does. So go check your swivels, both of them, and make sure they face in the right direction and change out the ones that don't.
 
I finally made it to the boat show - went at lunch time - walked over from work. Checked out the new C-Dory's of course, salivated over the SeaSports, walked through the Ranger Tugs, stayed away from the Meridan Yachts.
I did sit in on Tom Nelson's fishing seminar - really enjoyed it - "How to catch puget sound chinook and coho salmon". He mentioned having dinner with the inventor/manufacturer of the "modern" flashers and how his first models were in three different colors. He asked the guy which color worked best - the reply was that he didn't know - he just used three different colors so that folks would buy three of them.
The new color now to use is UV - can only see it under a blacklight but apparently it is very visible to the fish.
Cheers,
Tom
 
Jon, They are a Short Season A team that plays in the Northwest league with Spokane, Vancouver, Yakima, Boise, Salem-Kaiser and a few more. Great ball parks if you like baseball.

At the boatshow, I really fell in love with "Nutmeg", a Nexus Marine Eastsider, 22 feet long and all wood. Beautiful!

Robbi
 
Yeah Robbi, Caryn fell in love with the Nexus boats as well. I didn't like the fact that they didn't have a pilot house boat but according to them, all of their boats are customizable.

I have to admit, we thought about the 24' Skagit Orca, last year's model at a very good price. It had a huge cockpit and a Suzuki 175, but the cabin was no bigger and no fancier than our current CD22. The huge price reduction was tempting however.

I like the Venture 26' but was shocked at the price. I think it was $109,000! On that note, I think the 22' CD Cruiser was $70k plus. Like Pat said earlier, our purchase 4 years ago is sure looking good now.

I might go over this afternoon for another peek at things I missed the first time and maybe buy some more fishing tackle.
 
Jazzmanic":ksv1qjbq said:
Yeah Robbi, Caryn fell in love with the Nexus boats as well.
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Hold on a minute, Peter...I stopped to admire that boat too. Dotty was not impressed. As I've mentioned before, Dotty lived for 10 years on a wooden boat. Once, during one of our few arguments in 48 years of marriage, she said she only married me "to get off that d*** wooden boat!"
I had to laugh reading the Nexus site which states the following,

"To restore appearance in ten or twenty years, all you have to do is have it repainted, just like a car."

When we got our 16 footer I was allowed to have a teak flag pole. Two years ago she grudgingly said I could get a steering wheel hub.

Stick with your C-Dory and visit the wooden boat museum.
 
It was a good day to drop by the boat show today for for an extended lunch break. Compared to last year's show, a few builders have fallen off the radar screen. Glacier Bay was not at the show this year. Larry Graf (the founder of Glacier Bay) has established a new boat company featuring a prototype power catamaran on display with asymmetrical hulls with only one inboard engine located in one of the hulls.
At the north end of the display area under the stadium bleachers, a sharp looking power catamaran was on display. www.arrowcatmarine.com This is a Roger Hill design. It has clean lines with a double berth and private head forward, galley and convertible dinette in the main cabin, and a single quarter berth in each hull. Like the tomcat, it is powered by two outboards mounted the transom. After seeing the price tag on the 25' Tomcat, I didn't even ask about the price on this one.

It was nice to see the C-Dory display sitting in a prime location directly in front of the boat show entrance. I hope Fluid Marine has a successful show.

Best Regards,
Leo
 
Marty said:
"Stick with your C-Dory and visit the wooden boat museum."
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Marty, there are folks who have wooden boats because they enjoy, no thats not the right word, more like fixate or are obsessive compulsive about maintaining them. And that is what they do, scrape, sand, paint and more, over and over, and over and over, and over and over again and again and again ..... and again.

For my piece of mind, I am not one of them.

BTW, that Nexux, $153K and you get to paint it every 10 - 20 years :cry :roll:

Harvey
SleepyC
 
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