Pacific Marine Expo 2008

Here it comes again. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 20, 21, and 22, at the Quest Field Event Center in Seattle, Washington. It’s the 2008 Pacific Marine Expo!

I went to this show for the first time last year, and I really enjoyed it. It’s not a “boat show”, and it isn’t oriented toward recreational boaters at all. So what’s it all about? Um…Alfie?

Let me quote myself from last year:

This show is oriented toward the commercial maritime industry, so it lacks a lot of the goodies you find at the Seattle Boat Show: No ski boats with 10,000-watt stereo systems. No 6-person jet-skis. No “new and improved” anchor designs you’ve never seen on an actual boat.

Instead, though, you can learn a lot about netting, about the latest in cutting-edge ice-makers, and about plumbing of every kind. If that’s not enough, there are really big engines, really big bilge pumps, and really big insurance policies! Honestly, it’s really fascinating…this is a different world.

And it’s FREE if you register online. It’s $20 at the door.

This is the show where my older daughter and I got bitten by the “remote control boats” bug. We’ll be at the show, running our little tugboat, on Friday.

I’ll be there Thursday, as well, sans child. I plan to be a little more serious that day.