{"id":1032,"date":"2009-02-10T21:37:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2009-02-25T21:41:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T17:41:21","slug":"53rd-annual-la-boat-show-finds-boaters-in-a-buying-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"53rd Annual L.A. Boat Show Finds Boaters in a Buying Mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. Boat Show opened on a high note considering the challenging economic times. On the whole, exhibitors reported more interest that far exceeded expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re happy and making sales at the show,&#8221; commented Scott Driesbach, Advantage Boats COO with factory headquarters in Lake Havasu City, AZ. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a long six months, but after this Saturday and Sunday, we&#8217;re feeling much better about what 2009 holds in store. We closed several deals the first day and the introduction of our new 34 XFlight model created a lot of consumer buzz and plenty of quality leads that we&#8217;ll be following up in the weeks and months ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was pretty much the sentiment expressed by the majority of exhibitors at the show,&#8221; said SCMA Executive Director, Dave Geoffroy. &#8220;What was very encouraging&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/53rd-annual-la-boat-show\/story.aspx?guid=%7B02FD0C43-FD1F-49B8-959F-C807DBCDC63F%7D&amp;dist=msr_2\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. Boat Show opened on a high note considering the challenging economic times. On the whole, exhibitors reported more interest that far exceeded expectations. &#8220;We&#8217;re happy and making sales at the show,&#8221; commented Scott Driesbach, Advantage Boats COO with factory headquarters in Lake Havasu City, AZ. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a long six months, but after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,28,33,29,30,31,32,35,36,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-kiteboard","category-new-boating-products-tests","category-powerboat","category-pwc","category-sailing","category-wakeboard-tubing","category-water-skiing","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}