St. Pete Sailboat Show Recap.

Jereme and I hit up the St. Pete Power & Sailboat Show on Saturday just for the day (which required waking up at the butt crack on Saturday morning so we could drive all the way from Naples and be at the show in time for the first set of seminars).

We’ve been to the St. Pete show show once before, along with others like Miami Strictly Sail and the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show, but this one was definitely the most useful show we’ve ever been to now that we actually own a boat and are getting ready to cruise full-time.

We met up with two sets of awesome cruiser bloggers — Mike + Cindy, from s/v Cream Puff, and Jody + Peter, from s/v Mary Christine (where the coconuts grow). It was so great meeting ya’ll in person and chatting about our plans, our boats, etc. etc.  Mark, thanks so much for the ticket hook-up! Jody, just an FYI…we might be stowing away on your guys’  boat come January after learning how awesomely equipped it is. 😉 Hope you don’t mind! lol. 

We also made sure to squeeze in four seminars during the day — Chris Parker’s weather seminar, courses on anchoring and cruising the Florida Keys, and a solar panel system overview.

While we were there, we happened to run into our favorite boat broker, Al Pollak (Massey Yachts), who was very pleased to hear of our upcoming cruising plans.

Somehow, we managed to check out most of the vendors at the show. Looks like s/v LAHO is going to be sporting some brand spanking new port lights in a few weeks! Woo hoo! And maybe a new anchor too.

Amidst all ^this^ fun, we even found a few minutes to hop on a handful of boats at the show. That was probably a mistake, since it’s hard to see all the gorgeous, shiny, new boats, with all the latest gear and everything in perfect working condition. I suppose we can dream about what our next boat might look like. 😉

I’m thrilled we decided to make the trek up to St. Pete for the day…it was definitely worth it!

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