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To: Ilaine who wrote (13535)1/16/2002 11:02:16 AM
From: AC Flyer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
Oh yeah, the "stopped clock" guys.

From a link on the home page of prudentbear.com today:

Boat show awash in sales: Nobody's drowning in this business
By Bill Kossen
Seattle Times business reporter

ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Dennis Harr, of La Conner, Skagit County, checks out the kayaks at the Seattle Boat Show. Low interest rates, price reductions and other incentives are helping to keep the boat-building industry afloat.

It was just another weekday in a city hit hard by the recession, but you couldn't tell it by looking at the floor of the Seattle Boat Show yesterday.

It was not only packed with expensive new boats, but also with people able to buy them.

"I was surprised at the sticker prices. They are actually lower than what I thought they would be
," said Bill Burks, 63, of Sammamish, looking at Bayliners going for $90,000 and up.