Well IYA, it's not so much do I want to get one... I picked one up the other day for about $500 less than you paid. As in free! Howz that for karma?
I figure I could swap the 5/16 shaft for a like length 3/8, put two 5/8 bands on, throw a couple wraps of 600 pound tuna cord and a 100 foot float and I'd be poppin the flatties in Monterey in March and April. It'd gimme a chance to work this new ankle I got a couple weeks back and get tuned for the Keys Kraze.
And no kiddin on the Mother-in-Law solution... about the only thing better suited to losing one's ardour is to remember the
ex Mother-in-Law...
sven
