Fort Lauderdale Int'l Boat Show 2006

Can't count how many times I've been to FLIBS, but I must be a glutton for punishment... because I always look forward. Let's see... $50 to park, walk a crouded mile and wait an hour for credentials. Yep, I love FLIBS, no matter the cost, the trek or the creative parking skills required.

I attend FLIBS, first and foremost... as an enthusiast. Quite simply, I love boats. Big boats, slow boats or squint your eyes, look the other way... ugly boats. FLIBS is not just a boat show, it's an event. A place where the passionate can dream, the capable inspire and the financially challenged get downright depressed.

Looking forward to FLIBS 2006. Brandon, thank you for the multiple reasons why.

Addition

BrandonW
You forgot:

145' NQEA Curt C

Carl,
I use the water taxi to get around. Park at the convention center, take the water taxi from there, work the show, and come on back later on. No need to drive on A1A or places like that. Probably hit it Fri and Sat. Is opening day worth going (usually Thursday)?
Capt Tom

R you going to have a booth at the show Carl..?

See you there.

Hey Dag!

Long time, no post. Cockpit instruments leaving you blurry eyed?

No booth at FLIBS. Wandering aimlessly... trying not to fall in. I'll be busy telling lies to boat show models and questioning the marketing smarts of builders who don't banner with us.

BTW... tell Super-D I said hello and I hope to see you at FLIBS.

Don't know if I should admit this, but when I was about 19 I spent 3 months working at NQEA fairing that boat. The one thing I learned is It's a &%$ of a job.

Yeah, been busy flying airplanes to South America, then on days off sailing the Bahamas.
Spent too much time on the internet in the past, working 5 or 6 bulletin boards and got cross-eyed.

Now ya are talking..
Care to introduce me to some of them models? I can tell a lie or two myself: (Yeah, that is my 157' parked at the D dock, trading her for a bigger one ya know.. )

Yeah, see ya there..Be good.

Carl, were you here for the show in the early '80s where the floating docks were set up in Port Everglades and a nor'easter blew through?
The docks were doing a collective Watusi, but most spectacular was the 308 Ferrari set on it's own floating dock in the middle of the Richard Bertram display (Jim Schaeffer knew how to promote boats!)... various brokers had a bet going as to whether she'd turn turtle.

This year, I'll be wandering as well.
Ah, the joys of not being tied down to a boat during the show!

It's OK to admit. The fairing is still sticking, so you must have done a good job.

Well I guess it must have been an Ok job to still be on there, it must be 20 years now

Ken, Hope you don't mind that I post this photo to show off Garry's handi work. Shot taken last May at Rybo at the fuel dock as I was topping off a 43 Tiara on my journey north. Maybe I'll post those pics on another thread.
Capt Tom

I don't mind at all. That photo was taken prior to our last refit, which is most noticable from the absence of the new radars we installed last summer- see the "wheelhouse roundup" thread (I'd post a link to it, but don't have the skills).

Hijacked Thread??

Well, sorry to digress, but here is a current photo taken by Billy Black last week.

also

Another missing from the list:

111ft Motoryacht Neenah Z 'Codecasa'

Chris, where will you be located for the show? We'll all come by to say hi.
Capt Tom

erm

I'll have to let you know the exact location, but it is on the Allied Richard Bertram area.

We had an offer yesterday which means we may not be in the show after all.