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.