At the Palm Beach Boat Show: Better Late than Never, I Suppose

OK, welcome to Day 1 of the 2007 Palm Beach Boat Show…well, actually, the end of Day 1 of the Palm Beach Boat Show. The very end, like 11:00 PM-in-the-hotel-when-normal-people-are-heading- to-bed-and-the-blog-writing-is-just-getting-underway the end. As it turns out, the concept of a near-real time report from the show never made it out of the concept stage due to a lack of good laptop typing space and spotty Internet connections. So instead, the blog will be a series of entries this evening and some more after the show tomorrow.

Palm Beach is the last of the bigger boat shows before the spring fitting-out season really gets underway, following close on the heels of the Miami show. The show is pretty spread out, with many exhibits across town in the Convention Center and the rest outside along the Intracoastal Waterway (where we are).

Exhibit Row at Palm Beach 2007

We’ve got a lot packed into a fairly tight space – 10 ft by 20 ft – with the full suite of TracPhone Fleet products, the full set of TracVision M-series products, a working TracNet 100, and a working TracVision M5…plus two chairs, several briefcases, and a partridge in a pear tree.

The KVH exhibit

Unlike other shows – CES, SEMA, Miami – we’ve got a fairly small team in town for this show. However, our Florida distributor is attending and several of our dealers from the east coast are here as well so there’s a wealth of TracVision expertise on hand.