So Keith had a little good karma coming his way from saving a dog of earlier in the week. The poor thing had fallen in and spent the entire night in the water because she couldn’t find a way out against the tall sea wall. She was cold, exhausted, and very happy to be yanked up onto dry land.
That karma came back in a BIG way. While at our usual weekend waltz through West Marine today, Keith saw a box in the clearance isle for a maintenance kit for the Katadyn powersurvivor 80 watermaker. Hmmmm. We just started installing our powersurvivor 40 yesterday.
The box wasn’t labeled with the contents and the model number wasn’t in the catalog so we didn’t know what was in it and after staring at it for a while we let go. Kind of. As soon as we got home Keith started googling. None of the numbers were matching up. The maintenance kit supposedly came with the silt reduction filter kit (the kit we just paid $500.00 for on Friday) and the extended cruising kit which includes all the filters and biocides (which we still need to buy for $360.00). No way they could have marked down the kit containing both down to $200.00. Just no way. It had to be one or the other. But, whether it was the silt reduction kit or the extended cruising package we needed it and it was a great price. Keith got back in the car and back to West Marine, he opened the box and saw the 500.00 pump we just bought and said “I’ll take it!”. Turns out it was the maintenance kit that contained both kits for only $200.00! Yeah! So he drove home, boxed up the old silt-reduction kit, got back in the car and back to West Marine and got a refund.
So, to sum up the day, we went to West Marine three times, came home with $300.00 MORE in our wallets than we started, and now have more than $800.00 dollars worth of parts that we actually needed.
Seriously, Keith has gotten some great deals over the years, but this one is going to be hard to beat!
(Oh, and the powersurvivor 40 and 80 kits are interchangeable except for a few seals-so that worked out too.)
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What a great story!!! You definitely deserved some good karma after saving the dog! How amazing. Looks like you are headed south later in November. We are planning for a January departure since we still have several projects we’re trying to finish. 🙂
Oh, no, not November. We were supposed to ble leaving then but aren’t going to make it out until February/march. I just haven’t had the heart to change the countdown clock yet. (See the post “lies”). Good luck with your project list-maybe we will meet in the Bahamas this spring. Who knows!