On the initial trip, José's trailer got a flat tire. He persevered, and the next weekend was able to get his boat into the water. But the motor failed, and he had to be towed to shore by the Coast Guard. So he took his boat out and shot it. Wait ... there is a happy ending and a point to the fate of hard-luck José. Instead of giving up, he realized he should've simply bought a decent boat in the first place.
Whatever frustrations might sometimes be involved in the life of a seaman, the fact is, especially here in Miami, a day on a bay or a jaunt up a waterway is inevitably worth the trouble. And you're less likely to end up signaling if you spend some time shopping for that new watercraft -- emphasis on "new." The rest of us will be at the Miami International Boat Show (a.k.a. The Greatest Boat Show in the World) for the sole purpose of fantasizing.
There's plenty to see: The boat show is really a bunch of shows packaged together. Heck, the Yacht & Brokerage Show has its own separate press kit! Within the sailboat section there's something called "Multihull Lagoon," which displays more catamarans than any other "one place on earth." Okay, right, they're not on earth, they're on water, but after 64 years, the five-day-long boat show should be familiar to all as something way more than the cause of major traffic jams.
