New England Boat Show

(derek23) · (derek23) **Join Date: Oct 2006** 01-09-2008, 9:24 AM

Anyone going?

(juniorhawk)

I am going representing The Wakeboard Report and drooling at various Malibu, MasterCraft and Correct Craft offerings. I'll also lurk at the Supra booth but last year it was staffed by someone so uninformed that any one of us on this board could have worked that floor better. I still like Supra so I suppose I'll check them out too. I like the Boston Boat Show. I go to a lot of them up and down the East Coast and the New England Show is quite good by comparison - especially in that new venue.

Currently the plan is for this weekend, Saturday - but that could fall through to next Saturday. I want to get there when the action is hot - and this is the big kickoff for the show.

Look for me - I look almost exactly like this:

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(nvip9r) · (nvip9r) **Join Date: Feb 2004** 01-09-2008, 9:59 AM

I am planning on attending...but unsure of when...I figured it really doesn't matter since the wife won't let me buy anyways...I kind of wish it was like those West Coast or Florida boat shows...those look like fun...Boston one isn't bad...but not much there...hopefully this year might be better..

(juniorhawk)

Honestly, last year's New England Boat Show was better than the indoor portion of the Miami show by a mile. The neat part about the Miami show is the in-water stuff with the insane megayachts but in terms of "our boats" I swear there were more goods on the (very very large) floor at the New England Boat Show than the Miami show.

New England Boat Show doesn't screw around. They do however screw those of us attending as press. READ: they don't acknowledge press like literally every other boat show I've ever covered (or sent representation to) does.

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(mikey_marsh) · (mikey_marsh) **Join Date: Dec 2007** 01-09-2008, 11:38 AM

Ill be there with New England Freshwater Marine(Mastercraft)! Cant wait!

(juniorhawk)

Ok - I will stop by to say Hi.

The person running the MasterCraft booth was very cool to us, and I appreciated that.

So be as mean as possible to the guy that looks like this:
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When will you be there Mike?

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(ridersdad) · (ridersdad) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 01-09-2008, 2:05 PM

we will we there. Stop by the Mastercraft Booth and say Hi. We just got done bringing the boats in today. 2 more days to set-up and clean so everybody can enjoy the show starting Saturday.

(nvip9r) · (nvip9r) **Join Date: Feb 2004** 01-09-2008, 5:16 PM

Did not mean the Boston one wasn't good...just seems like those other shows have so much more...but still won't stop me...

Anyone know of any discounted tickets?

(juniorhawk)

Are you bringing a CSX or just a Prostar, and X1 like last year?

(mikey_marsh) · (mikey_marsh) **Join Date: Dec 2007** 01-10-2008, 2:58 PM

YO erik whats up man? Ill be there the second weekend! Last year we had and x2, xstar, x7, x15, and wards for some reason had a x30 and a 190.

(derek23) · (derek23) **Join Date: Oct 2006** 01-14-2008, 9:22 AM

So I went thid past Sunday and saw lots of great boats...my buddy is going to trade in his 02 X-Star for a new boat, I think he is going to go with a VLX. However I was dissapointed, I wasnted to walk away with some new bindings but there wasn't wanyone set up selling euipment...lame.

(juniorhawk)

Malibu's booth was very nice.
Correct Craft's booth was quite nice too.
My stories from the show are starting to go up today.