Woodsie

Yeah.. the HS 42.. The huge Orca they have brought to every show.. Look closely at the videos for this appliance that was added to both sides of the transom.. No.. I was wearing the wrong shirt, and I never thought about it. RumDum! It wasn't a really wrong shirt,, just a builder of shallow boats. Enuff for the Big-A to send me off. I didn't care, as I have been thrown out of much nicer places. The smaller boat builders (except a few) did not show up for Lauderdale. Times are that tough. Perhaps we will see them in MeeJammy Beesh. The large center console boatbuilders were very well represented at Lauderdale.. I was impressed. God ! The Bahamas were finished well. The Sea Vee IPS boat looked new too. Very nice work on their part. Tell me Wiley, did you video the SeaHunters hull bottoms ? Woodsie

I spent the day there on Friday. I was kinda disappointed all the way around.. I love being around all the great boats, but I saw an awful lot of problems and oversights on the exhibitors' part. I did not find a suitable boat to replace mine which was stolen & stripped in MeeJammy. All the makers have resorted to putting lipstick on their pigs trying to attract buyers.. That Contender 'Brougham' is an example.. I don't know what to do now.. There was a little Asian guy wearing a Honda polo.. He was videotaping all the larger CC's bottoms and was not discrete at all.. He pizzed off a couple of the builders.. I got thrown out of a display when the owner saw me measuring a transom... It got worked out, but this guy stirred up a bunch of guano. The transom deal is a long story, but a friend who is buying a 35CC changed his mind when he saw a few with cracked transoms (SKA and tournament boats). Other SKA boats did not have torn up transoms. So, with all the big boys sittin still, I took the liberty of measuring the transoms that support triples. There was a big difference in them, too.. Still working on a selection with him, too. Look at the transom of the 41 Hydra Sport with quads. There are brackets attached to raise the outside motors up.. 2 big metal trapezers.. You gotta open your eyes when looking at these boats.. It is too easy to drink the Kool Aid and miss big things.. Woodsie