Ran a couple of errands in town and just for shits and giggles I stopped into two boat supply dealers looking for some charts of Puget Sound, a tide table, some stuff for the electrical work (this model of boat is known to have too small a wire gauge for its electrical service - everyone who posts on the Bayliner forum has rewired theirs).
Got two books of charts for $40 each - reasonable considering that these have been printed on 11" x 17" waterproof paper and can be marked up with a pencil and subsequently erased. Nice spiral lay-flat binding too. Tide table was Captn' Jack's with 400 small pages of tide and current (most important) data for the whole area for 2017. $18 - a no brainer.
But, the electrical stuff is grossly over priced. I am in the wrong business. Circuit breakers that I can buy from a commercial electronics retail vendor for about $10 are retailing for over $30. Waterproof panels retailing for $120 that are made of $10 worth of molded ABS plastic. Right, they are engraved and have some features to them but way over priced. I own a retail store and fully understand that you need to build in a margin to keep the retail store happy but we are talking about profit margins in the nosebleed territory.
Had Mexican in town and back home for the evening. SPending tomorrow here working on stuff and then Monday rolls around...
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