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Tom Potter
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Initially Posted - 04/23/2006 :  20:09:11  Show Profile
I stopped into my local West Marine today to pick up a few odds and ends, they have remodeled the place and were having a grand reopening. The place was packed, grabbed a couple free hot dogs and a soda and made my way in. Once inside they had a table set up to register for door prizes. I filled out a card, picked up my odds and ends and proceeded to the boat to do some work. Finished up my work on the boat and went out for a afternoon sail.

7:22 my cell phone ran while I was sailing around on the lake...
"Tom Potter this is West Marine". You have won the grand prize, a brand new. 276C Plus ($699.99)

1997 250 TR WK (sold)
1984 O'Day 28 (sold)
1979 SISU 22
Bath, NC.
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 04/23/2006 :  20:22:45  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Were the hot dogs worth it?
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sailorman
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Response Posted - 04/23/2006 :  20:33:36  Show Profile
Boy, some guys have all the ----! Congrats Tom!!
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djn
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Response Posted - 04/23/2006 :  21:04:55  Show Profile
Good one Tom. Where will you mount it? I thought about mounting my 172C on the poptop edge. Cheers.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 04/23/2006 :  21:13:45  Show Profile
Tis your lucky day, indeed!
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stampeder
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Response Posted - 04/23/2006 :  21:39:40  Show Profile
To answer the question from last week, 'what is the best gps for the money?'
Congrats.
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 04/23/2006 :  22:42:30  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
Enjoy your new GPS ! Coincidentally...had franks and beans for dinner tonight. One of the rarest of occasions ! Then I read your post. But...West Marine did not call me. I think I will go down and ask if they are planning on any remodeling in the near future !
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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 04/24/2006 :  08:05:45  Show Profile  Visit aeckhart's Homepage
I wish we had a West Marine within easy driving distance here in Northern Michigan. The closest is Traverse City Michigan, about a six hour drive. Fortunately I get to handle merchandise at the West Marine when visiting my son in Tolodo, Ohio. Anyway, congrats Tom.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 04/24/2006 :  08:15:19  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by aeckhart</i>
<br />I wish we had a West Marine within easy driving distance here in Northern Michigan. The closest is Traverse City Michigan, about a six hour drive.
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In the city where I live, we have <b>two</b> West Marine stores located three miles apart.
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Downbucket
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Response Posted - 04/24/2006 :  08:39:41  Show Profile
Hi Tom:

Excellent! A couple of weeks ago the West Marine near me had a special event featuring Garmin products. They were handing out scratch cards and I won a t-shirt which said "Get Garmin or Get Lost." Pretty cool shirt except it was way too big for me so gave it away to a friend.

Will
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 04/24/2006 :  09:38:27  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Downbucket</i>
<br />A couple of weeks ago the West Marine near me had a special event featuring Garmin products. They were handing out scratch cards and I won a t-shirt...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

My West Marine had the same promotion. I won a $10.00 off coupon from the first West Marine then went down the road to the other one and won another $10.00 coupon. Not as good as the Tom's Garmin grab, but I'll take it just the same.
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tinob
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Response Posted - 04/24/2006 :  09:41:42  Show Profile
Congratulations Tom,

I had a cousin,Walter, who had that kind of gift. Won cars, vacations, boxes of candy, etc. His favorite cousin Val on the other hand, who takes chances on everything, never won anything. I'm not bitter, I seem to remember the car was an Edsel

Val on the hard DAGNABIT (Til May 8th) # 3936 Patchogue, N.Y.
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 04/24/2006 :  19:27:13  Show Profile
Picked up the "276C plus" today at West Marine. Been reading all the instructions tonight... lots of neat options with the unit. The thing I don't like is having to fork over big $$$ for Bluechart's man... those are costly! Guess since the unit was free I shouldn't complain about buying software. Anyone know a cheap source for bluecharts?
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