Must be something in the air of those Catalina 30's. My buddy Robert has one, and I always thought him to be the perfectionist. Why just last winter he was telling that the propane blower from Harbor Freight was indeed not suitable for his royal yacht. This year, after much discussion, he bought one, and shrunk wrapped his boat to the tune of minus $250!! See, he was going to pay the same guy who did it last year to shrink wrap it this year for $350. but finally, after two summers of me telling him "don't touch the stove, you'll burn your hand" and other sage advice, agreed with me and did it himself. The most humorous part was, when he was finished, some old guy, with the same mentality as Robert Past, excitedly came up to show Robert the $400 propane gun he bought used on Ebay for $100! The EXACT same model Robert was convinced to buy last year. And as Robert said so eloquently "It didn't even have a bezo-electric start on it!" So now Robert is an expert in shrink wrap. And just a few short months ago when he needed a multimeter, I loaned him mine ($3.50 at Marc's), and of course it was looked down upon because, well, he owns a Catalina 30! Mind you it worked for his purposes, but the price...$3.50! A jar of pretzels cost more, so it can't be worth much, right!
That night he scowered the internet for the biggest, baddest, most expensive...OK, medium priced Multi-Meter money could buy. Next day at Marc's I bought him a duplicate cheap one as a present and well, it worked perfectly. In fact, he showed it to the two Union E-lec-tri-tions at the end of the dock, thinking THEY would at least agree with him that it was worthless, but to his suprise and astonishment approved his gift!
So, save your dough for that 52' Yacht Of Your Dreams and buy a cheapie.
