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STEADY AS SHE GOES
My wife and I went to the Boat Show last weekend at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan, NY. I must confess I am very ignorant about boats and their costs and upkeep and nautical directions I hear like port, stern, bow, starboard. etc. The only boats I have been on I can recall are the Staten Island Ferry, the boat that took us to me to the Magic Kingdom in Disney World, a sightseeing boat near Alcatraz, and a sightseeing tour of the upper Hudson River in NY where the most memorable sight was a barge . Oh yes...I was on a boat..or was it a ship?..a replica of the Mayflower in Cape Cod on vacation years ago. Ok..I'm no Captain Ahab. 
Be that as it may, I convinced my wife to go with me to the Javits Center (about an hour drive from our Long Island home). I've always admired beautiful yachts and boats and sailing vessels. I know they are hard to maintain and often stay covered in docks most of the year and with quite costly fees. Two friends of mine and their families have owned boats on Long island . A cousin of mine owns a boat a bit North of us in an area called Rye,NY . He's invited my wife and myself on his boat but we never took him up on his offer.
As far as buying a boat plus the other exorbitant fees in keeping one, to be quite honest, just paying for our cars' insurances and repairs is a draining expense....but you never know. Maybe I'll hit the lottery one day.
Anyway, what we saw at the Javits center was incredible. The place was filled with gorgeous boats of every size..The place was jammed. There must be a lot of really rich folks around yet in these tough financial times. I saw a gigantic yacht with high ceilings, leather sofas, a full kitchen with bedrooms. The electronic gadgets and entertainment centers on so many of these boats is amazing.
I saw cabin cruisers and personal watercraft, fishing boats, sail boats, inboards, outboards, jet drives, runabouts, pontoons...what the hell is a runabout or a pontoon I had to ask someone. My wife and I got quite an education plus learned some new seafaring terminology. Unfortunately there was no Love Boat or pirate ship. I always wanted to walk the plank.
All in all, our trip to the Boat Show was an enjoyable fascinating wonderful experience. On our way home we stopped at a Toys R Us where I purchased a tug boat to put in my bubble bath along with Mr. Ducky.
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