..there are boats being built, being worked on for years'ish and/or haven't left the dock recently due operator age.

You might spot me at the swap dragging my immense bow roller from booth to booth mumbling "trade, trade?" or perhaps "sale cheap, sale cheap" or mebbe just dragging along, forlornly, in the cold and dark......new lamps for old, new lamps for old.

Typically by 0900 or 1000 we've seen it all, got coffee across the street two or three times, and head off to b'fast at the Five Spot by the Space Needle area in the Queen Anne District. We're a small group of only four this swapmeet. Fast wimmin, hard drinks, boat stories, and lies about how good we used to be and all that, well, some of that, before noon.

I'm amazed at some deals at the swap and always cruise the 'scratch and dents' at Fisheries back door. I'm apalled at some of the vendors who are at every swap meet north and south and asking new prices for goods many of which have their best days behind them. Clearly some are hustling while others just want to clear stuff away. I reckon that's the way it is.