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Article: BOAT SHOW ENTICES SERIOUS SAILORS AND CAPTAINS ONLY IN THEIR DREAMS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 23, 1987
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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, ...