Boating Lessons Learned – Pinterest is a Valuable Tool. I have found that utilizing Pinterest as my search engine and creating boards to compile product selections is a great way compare specifications and prices and make better inform purchasing decisions.

I recently discovered Pinterest.   What a treasure trove of creative ideas.  It is summer time so I have been drawn to the garden photos. And heaven forbid for some reason the woodland cabin photos been intriguing. Well hang me from the yard arm. What is a boat dweller doing lusting after log cabins? I deserve 50 lashes for just thinking of moving to high ground 😝. So after an hour or so of surfing I began to feel guilty.   Yes there are thousands of neat pictures and there are a lot of good ideas out there but Ugg. Just how many craft ideas and recipes can a person look at before it just becomes a waste of cellular data usage? I thought to myself surely there is some way to take advantage of this powerful tool. But nothing productive came to mind. So I kept mindlessly surfing and “pinning” witty quotes and pictures of old wooden sail boats.

A few days later I found myself starting another boat project. This time it was boat windows. Our center helm station window has become fogged up. The original window is a fixed double pane window that has performed beautifully for decades.

The double pane window has worked well in this service in that it does not get condensation on the inside on those cold winter cruising days unlike all of my prior boats. I recall one Christmas cruise where we had to set up a hair dryer to blow on the front glass to keep the condensation at bay so that we could see out to pilot the boat. But now I can’t see through the double pane due to condensation that has formed between the panes.

So I began searching the web for window suppliers and it wasn’t long before I found some good products that I wanted to compare. I bookmarked some sites and typed in some notes in my fancy dancy iPad feeling all smug about my Internet prowess. But honestly my notes were not much more than my usual hen scratching and I soon began hoping that I might remember the good product ideas and somehow find my way back to compare the best ones so that I could make an informed buying decision. And then it occurred to me. Hey, why don’t I search via Pinterest and make myself a board with all of the products that might fill the bill. That way I can search at my leisure, pin some pictures of the products I like, maybe drop in some “notes to self” on the pins, maybe include prices and phone numbers. And Hey, when I have exhausted my searches I can go back and review my finds side by side. I can click on my “pin” and instantly go to the product web site to review the specs in more detail.

Pinterest Board, Boat Equipment

And once I had narrowed my list down I decided why not send click on the contact link for each prospective supplier and get a qoute. Well it worked. Within a few hours I was receiving calls and by noon I had settled on my new window supplier. And the coolest part is they are located about an hours from here so I can drive over and pick up my new windoe. Hum. I never would have thought I would find a local supplier on the www much less on Pinterest. Maybe this Pinterest site is more than just visual chewing gum. Pinterest is another Boating Lessons Learned.

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