Day 226 – trip to Miami Boat Show - February 17, 2012

The Miami Boat Show opened yesterday.  The show consists of booths at the Miami Convention Center as well as three in water venues.  We are planning to spend two days exploring everything it has to offer and we asked Heather if she was interested in going.  If she decided not to go, we would attend on Sunday (after we delivered Heather to the Miami Airport) and Monday, but if she was interested, we’d go Friday and Sunday.  She was interested, so we loaded up the rental car (with the three of us plus John and Rita) and headed to Miami.

The show was great.  We spent most of today going through the Miami Convention Center.  I think Fred managed to visit every vendor who has a part in our boat.  We checked out the Garmin electronics display – if money was no object, we’d install a whole new Garmin system on Boreas.  We also bought some new headsets, deck shoes for Fred, the charts we need to get us all the way to Canada and a number of LED light bulbs to try.  Heather had a great time and got herself some new sandals and great pair of sunglasses.  We will return to the boat show on Sunday after we drop Heather off at the airport.  

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