Article: BOAT SHOW ENTICES SERIOUS SAILORS AND CAPTAINS ONLY IN THEIR DREAMS

Rosemary Fahey of Randolph ran her hands along the edge of a gleaming sailboat. "When I win Megabucks," she said, "the first thing I'm going to do is buy my husband a boat, a 38-footer with a flying bridge."

A $2 ticket bought a lot of daydreams at the New England Boat Show yesterday as thousands of browsers and buyers jammed into the Bayside Expo Center to gaze at boats ranging from an eight-foot dinghy to a 44-foot cabin cruiser.

They waited in long lines to board the landlocked boats, fingering the fiberglass, pinching the cushions and scrutinizing the price tags.

"I'm just looking," said Harvey Muir, a Coast Guardsman stationed on Cape Cod. "I can afford the entrance ticket, ...

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