Since I am still stuck in the Bay Area getting caught up on things from previous existance here visting stores etc, I apologise for lack of correspondence. All orders received have been sent out, though. Some from HI and some from CA. This is being sent from KINKOs. The Sail Expo was great as usual although I thought attendence down a bit becuase of "sticker shock" over the $20.00 entrance. Also Opewning Day on the SF Bay was on the last day of the show. However there was some good positive feedback and one or two negatives that will be answered too. A customer in from Seattle bought the first prototype of our wax last year and had problems because it kept raining before the wax was set! although he thought the SEA GLOW was great. I lost track of his name but will send new version if he contacts me. The new version has been made to set up much faster and I was demonstrating how water rinsing and wiping over could be used to wipe off old dirt etc (the show place was being deluged with tiny black things from some metal disposal place!). Another customer brought a piece of his boat to the show! He had put in a portlight and had the piece of hull to me to try before he bought. The interesting thing was to see discolored piece slowly become white again as sunlight reacted with the SEA GLOW. On a Monty Python note, I's glad that I'm still not a "cult of one". Enought about gelcoat etc. I saw a great new superglue from Germany. His demos were sticking pieces of rubber tubing to beer cans- and they would't come off! I bought some of this glue and tried it on some old inflatable hypalon (with help of the German guy on the glue stall). I first cleaned the piece with pink followed by water rinsing and thorought drying. Then we glued it. In shear the joint could not be broken. Then Dave Hall of the Tinker company said "here" and pulled the joint apart by "peeling". However, the glue had pulled the (very poor quality) hypalon away from the fabric base!. I will be working with the glue for inflatable repairs and looking to to make pinhole repairs. This is becuase Bill Coveny (ex Cost Chandlery in Oxnard) says he uses superglue for patching. The usual patch glue is just an impact adhseive and really only temporary - easilty softened by any decent cleaner indcluding ours. Two-part adhesive is not similarly effective, ais stronger but has limited shelf life for cruisers etc. How about discussion of inflatable repairs next time? Thanks Jim W