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06-07-2005, 03:03 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Boat stuff buying advice:
Get a Defender catalogue they're free. www.defender.com
Carry it with you into West Marine/BoatUS
Save a few bucks.
They WILL match the prices.  |
Ski Quicks Hole
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06-07-2005, 03:04 PM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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Or call defender and order it...
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Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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06-07-2005, 03:10 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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then you have to wait for it/pay shipping.  |
Ski Quicks Hole
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06-07-2005, 03:12 PM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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They are damn fast though, good turn around time and the cheaper price usually offsets the shipping; I have port supply at west BTW and use it often, but the lil woman's dad works at Defender, so I need to plug it when possible...
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Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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06-07-2005, 03:13 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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no advertising! 
yeah defender = good |
Ski Quicks Hole
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06-07-2005, 03:27 PM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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yes defender is good.
The best is their big warehouse sale in the spring. I got some insane deals there this year.
_Z_
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i bent my wookie
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06-07-2005, 07:36 PM
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zoom
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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Defender.com
Been using them for a few years, best prices on marine electronics
I could find.
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Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
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06-07-2005, 07:38 PM
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Which Way Did They Go
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Blackstone, MA
Posts: 1,147
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just ordered the catelog....thanks for the heads up...
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06-07-2005, 11:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 1,748
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I have been using Defender for years.
However, get this. A few years back on a rainy day I took a ride to the cape to buy a rule washdown pump for the boat. Called ahead of time to see they had in stock and would match competitiors price. Well, I brought the Defender catalog in and the price was like $119 to Wests $179. The store manager was sh*tting, called denfender to ask. The deal was good. but the bastage charged me the would be freight from NY to my house. I still saved $40 bucks.
Hamilton Marine in Maine is great too. Lately I have been using them.
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Jon, 24' Nauset-Green Topsides, Beamie, North River. Channel 68/69. MSBA, NIBA
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06-08-2005, 01:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Candia, NH
Posts: 149
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Thanks
I love Catalogs!
Helps drive my wife nuts  I need this and this and this and this |
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06-08-2005, 02:02 PM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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[QUOTE=beamie]... but the bastage charged me the would be freight from NY to my house...QUOTE]
I would have said if that was the case, he should wave the sales tax that I wouldn't have to pay ordering out of state...
West Marine is the biggest ripoff going. However I spend hundreds of dollars there because it is very convenient for me.
_Z_
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i bent my wookie
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06-08-2005, 02:18 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Van
Been using them for a few years, best prices on marine electronics
I could find.
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Go to the boat shows for electronics.
They'll undercut any catalogue price you can find just so they don't have to drag the crap home with them. |
Ski Quicks Hole
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06-08-2005, 02:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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I am going to have to try this...Defender has very good prices on most things. The difference on 600' of line is huge compared to what they get locally. THe west guys said he would match prices. We'll see.
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06-08-2005, 02:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 372
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West Marine's prices are way too high. Boaters World is cheaper, but Defender is only 10 minuts from where I keep my boat!  |
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06-08-2005, 03:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Don't just get the defender catalog, also get Hamilton marine's catalog, they are often cheaper than defender and West Marine will match their prices as well.
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