Went to the Milwaukee boat show with the Boys on Sunday. I took a couple pics from the top of one of the "big ones."
While young Matt was busy expounding on the virtues of a Fly-Bridge (and why "our next boat" should have one), the 14-year old was busy taking selfies for his Instagram account:
There were more Yamaha jet boats than I've seen at past shows (sorry no pics). I was going to go aboard an e-series but thought better of it. Just because the practical side of me doesn't like the fancy displays and screens doesn't mean the geek in me doesn't like them.
My "I'm staring down the barrel of 4 college educations" line once again kept the salespeople at bay so I was able to hold "normal" conversations with them.
The Milwaukee Boat Show is pretty much a powerboat / watersports show so it was fun to see a PROPER boat there: A nice little Compac Eclipse. THIS might make a nice retirement boat if fates prevent me from getting a big ol' trawler.
The dealer was from Madison. The salesperson was cool - he's a sailor as well. I had some questions he didn't know the answer to so the two of us crawled around the boat until we figured it out. The sailing bug is biting. Maybe even harder than the powerboating bug. Sigh.
One thing that really impressed me was the pontoon boats. Holy cow. They had some there with TWIN 300 HP outboards on them! I guess that's for when you don't like your guests and want to get to where you're going in a hurry so you can rid yourself of their company.
Overall it was a halfway decent show - certainly nothing like the huge ones in Detroit or Chicago of course. It was a nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon in January anyway.
It's probably a good thing that this show doesn't draw too many sailboats. I'd have a yard full of the dang things by now.
