Dave you make some good points, but I am just not sure how big an industry still exists at North End. When I was young, the line to launch your boat on holiday weekends would be well past the gas station at Bullfrog and going up the hill. The parking lots would be almost totally full. Offshore had so many boats in the lot you could hardly get around. The buoy fields at Bullfrog and Halls were completely full. The wait list for getting a slip was years long. Today, none of that is true. It's a faint shadow of what it used to be in terms of volume. Part of that is because of the bad experience that so many people have had trying to get ANY sort of service at the North End. This is not an inexpensive hobby, it has to be a passion. But when you spend an entire vacation day trying to buy a bottle of gear lube, going from Halls (where there used to be a great on-lake boat shop - no longer), to Bullfrog, to the Bullfrog Gas Station, to Offshore...and only able to acquire one from a fellow boater...something is wrong up there. I think it could be better if there was someone there who had the incentive to do it well.
