Seattle Boat Show Blog

Musing on boating blogs

Deborah and I conducted our first seminar on boat blogging yesterday at the Seattle Boat Show.  Our audience was relatively small but certainly engaged, and we had a great time offering a few tips and ticks we’ve learned over the past year of running Three Sheets Northwest, as well as during our former lives as [...]

Don’t miss Three Sheets’ seminar on boat blogging

Deborah and I will be leading a seminar on blogging about boats this Thursday at the Boat Show tomorrow. We’ll be starting at 7 p.m. on the Green stage. Come say hello!
Our presentation is titled “Keel Blogging: Tips on creating a great boating blog.”
We plan to cover: why to blog about boating; how [...]

Boat BBQ mess? Here’s a creative solution

We ran into the couple behind Cleaner Cook at last year’s show. They were just getting started selling their BBQ skirts for boats. Seemed like one of those great solutions to an annoying little problem on board. This year, they added a line of BBQ sauce. It’s worth a stop by their booth [...]

Cool crab trap

Yesterday we came across what must be one of the coolest gadgets at the Seattle Boat Show—a collapsible, lightweight crab pot that folds up into a slim nylon bag with a shoulder strap.
Made by Stow-B-Low, based in Des Moines, Wash., the Crab Pod®, which costs around $110 with weights, is the brilliant invention of a former [...]

A few images from a wet but lively Boats Afloat

Seattle Boat Show: Lake Union ‘Boats Afloat’ style!

Our friend Tim Flanagan over at Navagear.com has a great post on the Boats Afloat show. We plan to be down there tomorrow, so look for our complete coverage then.
Here’s some of Tim’s take:

I hate…HATE…parking down around the south Lake Union mess. It really is a mess right now, what with all the construction [...]

More pictures from VIP night

We came. We saw. We took some pictures.

Renewed optimism as boat show opening approaches

Deborah Bach just posted this over on our main site, Three Sheets Northwest:
Organizers of the 63rd annual Seattle Boat Show are hoping increased consumer confidence and pent-up demand will translate to sales at this year’s show.
As final preparations are carried out for Friday’s opening of the Seattle Boat Show, organizers are cautiously optimistic that this [...]