Boat Show

Houston also happened to have a boat show on the same day that we went on our urban kayaking trip. At first I was enthusiastic about the idea of a boat show, until I realized it was an indoor boat show. I much prefer wondering around a marina in the sunshine, but oh well.

A 450-horsepower outboard is a bit extreme in my opinion.

Four of them on the back of one boat is bordering on obscene. I don’t even want to tell you how much fuel those would go through.

Here’s one of the few boats I liked.

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That cute little wooden sailboat was over in the corner with the weird things, like this car that’s not even a boat.

This sailing outrigger was kind of cool.

As was this foot-paddling kayak.

Here is a trailer that holds a kayak, a bike, and a platform to set up a tent. Kind of cool, but it seems like you’d be better off putting your bike on back of your vehicle, your kayak on top, and your tent on the ground. Trailers are a nuisance.

They had only one, maybe two sailboats. I know a little bit about sailboats, so I took a good look at this one.

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And oh, hey, a hot tub. Whatever.

Here’s some sort of trimaran for fishing.

But mostly it was just large power boats, starting at about $70,000 and averaging I’d guess about $250,000. If I had that much money, I’d buy another rental.

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That’s a head (toilet) on the left. They’re often behind impossibly small looking doors, hiding a reasonably sized (small but useable) facility below.

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Pontoon boats

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The most expensive boats were a million dollars. Yeah, we’ll take that one.

ooh, pretty. It looks like artwork.

No, we didn’t buy a boat, lol.