newsletters that cover some of the benefits
and opportunities that we offer. So we
communicate pretty regularly that way. We
have an industry-wide event called the
American Boating Congress, where we
spend a couple of days inWashingtonD.C.,
have meetings on Capitol Hill, meeting
with Members of Congress, where we talk
about issues like ethanol, like the Sport Fish
Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, and
really getting the word out there about
what’s important to our industry. We are
such a big industry and we have a lot of
impact with the way the economy works, so
we want to get that out there and let them
know what’s important to us. That would
be the other event we focus on each year. It’s
not specifically our event, but we’re a co-
host of it and we believe it’s incredibly
important to the success of our industry.
BUSINESS WORLD:
Talk to me
about the future, obviously the last five
years have been a recovery phase from the
downturn and all the rest, but if we have this
conversation again five years down the
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