Oakland Boat Show and Lats and Atts Cruiser's Party

It’s mid April and just this week was the first time we have had more than two consecutive days of fair weather.  This was really a wet winter and so we are way behind what we thought we would have done by now.  Fortunately, we aren’t on a hard and fast schedule.  However, mid April is always the Oakland Strictly Sail boat show and Saturday night Latitudes and Attitudes Cruiser’s Bash.  This is our seventh year attending the show and the party.  We don’t miss it.

Big dollars for boats that I don't really want.

This year we were able to attend all four days of the show and take advantage of the numerous seminars on a wide variety of subjects.  Really good stuff and much more valuable than our one day Saturday visits in previous years.  We didn’t make any major purchases this year, and actually, I didn’t see any boat that I really loved.  New boats are so “antiseptic”.  Teak is completely gone from the exterior on all but the most expensive boats and even the interiors are now a combination of plastic and cherry or similar wood.  I didn’t love it.  The warm teak interior of our boat is more like furniture.  We will stick with Quiet Moon.

Goodies and gear everywhere.

Saturday night was the annual Lats and Atts Cruisers Bash.  Warm weather, cold beer, hot pizza and live music by Eric Stone.  Always a great time and we kept our perfect record by going 0 for seven.  We didn’t win anything in the raffles…again.

The usual big crowd at the Lats and Atts Party!

The weather for the show was great and it is still great.  Time to really get to work on boat projects.  I’m not even going to try and predict when we will get them done.  Time to get to work.