Chicago Friday February 3

The first proper day - Friday - here has been great. Thursday starts are often pretty dead with only the exhibitors walking the floor. But in our case that is usually good as we have a lot of support from across the industry. The Quantum, North, Harken and Samson guys all came by with quite a few others as well. Today the show really opened up and tomorrow should be even better. Sunday will be interesting with the Super Bowl. How many sailors are also football fans? We'll have to wait and see. We are situtated directly across from the bar which works well for us. We like beer and we don't have to go far to get it! And apparently lots of other people like beer too as we find ourselves talking to sailors with bags in one hand and a beer in the other. The flow of lookers was very consistent today with several interested buyers coming back quite a few times. Always a good sign when you are selling something. We're all hoping they'll be back again tomorrow.