West Marine Products, Inc. 3rd Quarter Earnings Announcement

    WATSONVILLE, Calif.--Oct. 9, 2002-- , the nation's largest specialty retailer of boating supplies and apparel, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter results and 2003 outlook on Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time (11:30 a.m. Eastern Time).
    This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at West Marine's web site at www.westmarine.com.
    The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

    About West Marine

    West Marine, Inc. is the nation's largest specialty retailer of boating supplies and apparel with 252 stores in 38 states, Puerto Rico and Canada, and more than $500 million in annual sales. The Company's highly successful Catalog and Internet channels offer customers approximately 50,000 products - far more than any competitor - and the convenience of being able to exchange Catalog and Internet purchases at West Marine retail stores. The Company's Port Supply division is the country's largest wholesale distributor of marine equipment serving boat manufacturers, marine services, commercial vessel operators and government agencies. Because the overwhelming majority of West Marine's revenues come from aftermarket sales, the Company has traditionally been less affected by economic downturns than manufacturers and sellers of new boats.