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reuben
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Initially Posted - 01/08/2006 :  18:39:47  Show Profile
Got tickets yesterday for the Chicago edition, February 2-5 at Navy Pier, and can hardly wait. Anybody here been to one of these?
Reuben
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djn
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Response Posted - 01/08/2006 :  19:20:00  Show Profile
I have not been yet. I don't think they have them in the Detroit area. We have the Detroit boat show but I think it is mostly power boats. The five hour drive to Chicago is too much. I wish there was one closer. Cheers.
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Turk
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Response Posted - 01/08/2006 :  19:24:51  Show Profile  Visit Turk's Homepage
I went to the strickly sail in Philadelphia last year when they had 14 inches of snow. We had the whole show to ourselves! Very nice show. At first I thought it looked a little small, but after getting into it and seeing all the venders, we spend two whole days. Take your credit card as there are always great show specials with the last day being the best for picking up display stock or booth stock at even better prices. Most do not want to box it all up and take it back to the warehouse.

Lots of boats to look at and lots of people to talk to. Stay several days and enjoy the local restaurants and entertainment.
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 01/09/2006 :  18:29:55  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
We purchased JD at the Miami Strictly sail last year.
The start of a great relationship.
Just keep getting better.

We hope to attend this years Miami event, but won't be buying another boat



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dave holtgrave
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Response Posted - 01/09/2006 :  20:20:04  Show Profile
reuben
been going for years to chicago show.

you'll love it.

lots of exhibitors for gear.

i will be out of the area or i would meet you there.

dave holtgrave
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hard and dry nears carlyle lake in southern illinois
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Ray Seitz
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Response Posted - 01/09/2006 :  21:49:07  Show Profile
Reuben: Went previous three years lot of fun plenty of boats to look at. Chicago show is about 1/5 the size (or smaller) of the Annapolis show and it is not on the water, which is good because last year the water around the Navy Pier was frozen solid. Last year Catalina had a party for Catalina owners and I got to bend Frank Butlers ear for a while. I think it was Dellher last year that had ~48' boat there. A real beauty and how they got it in there is beyond me. Not sure about what day, if I do go at all, I will be going this year.
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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 01/11/2006 :  08:32:14  Show Profile
I've been to the Sail Expo in Oakland, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) a couple of times, last in 2000. Last year, some people from our sailing club went down and reported a dissapointing development: two adjacent buildings that had housed restaurants (Spaghetti Factory, El Torito's, and a Marie Calendar's, I think) have been converted to office space, leaving no restaurants within walking distance to go for dinner after the show. The group had all travelled from Sacramento to Oakland on the Amtrak train, so no one had a personal car in which to drive somewhere for dinner; I guess no one in the group got dinner until they got home late that night. The Oakland version of Sail Expo is mostly an in-the-water boat show, with a couple of large tents in the parking lot housing vendors, but most of the boats are 36' or larger (read - more expensive than I'll ever be able to afford), so I only go to the show maybe once every 5 years or so. The San Francisco Bay Area is mostly about keeping your boat in a marina slip - not many people go in for trailerables like our C-25's and C-250's, and Sail Expo reflects that. There's not much there in my price range.
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