Seattle Boat show 2012

[mmandley]

Ok peeps, made it up to the Seattle boat show. What a spectacle to be seen. After you pay 11 bucks for parkering Holy chit man, you pay 12.50 a ticket you can feast your eyes on all the shinnies.

Ok honestly I wasnt impressed at all with the show. I expected there to be a lot more ocean stlye boats since we are in Seattle but i still expected a better showing of wake boats, and river boats, and open bow I/O boats. There just wasnt as many as i really expected.

Venders ohh my god there was a lot of venders, mostly all big boat stuff but still pretty decent to walk threw and look at lol.

Over all i dont think i will be attending the Seattle show again, with the gost of fuel to drive the 425 mile round trip, food, drinks, parking, entry fee, and time spent it just wasnt worth it. I can say that i went and saw now lol.

Ok on to the boats.
these first 4 are standing on the north entry way over looking the boats. Can you find the wake boats here?

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This was kinda cool, Its a display of all the football teams in the state of washington.




Correct answer is there is only 1 actual V drive wake boat in all those shots. Most of the wakeboats were hidden behind curtains, or in the east hall.

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Master Craft was the first boats we found, decent little display.

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Classic looking ski boat.


I liked the colors of this one. It matches Serenity

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On to Malibu.
AWS cant display Malibu in Seattle as there is a Malibu dealer in Seattle. I was disapointed in the display because all the boats where jamed up next to each other with only 2 or 3 inches of space. You had to stand on platform and look inside from the rears.

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We really liked the interior of this one, I think it the VLX version. It has very simular colors to Fierah, and the outside had matching colors to the truck.

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They had a pretty cool display how the Wedge works. I used sport mode and held the button on the camera, it took 21 pictures in the 4 seconds it took to move the wedge. I wont bore you with them all.

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Now heres a boat i have never seen at any shows. The Sanger, ive herd a ton about this boat but never seen a new one before. Was a pretty nice looking boat but the sales guy didnt know anything about V drives, why they exist or even why they were designed. He just kept fumbaling threw answers with his customers, i almost wanted to tell him to shut up and i would help them out LOL.



Not a wakeboat but man these bad boys deserved a second to awe at.

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Heres some pics for our man Sled.

I couldnt believe they made this type of boat still. Claudia was like whats that? Why doesnt it have a bow? LOL

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Heres the engine from the Nautique Ski boat.

This is the open bow direct drive.