I guess I am out of touch with the latest costs. I bought my boat new in '85 and have not needed many parts for it in spite of a lot of use. I broke a tiller extension at one time and bought a replacement for somewhere in the $20 range. I still have it though the fiber is getting in my hands. It is long enough to hike out on the wire and I like it better than the hot stick. Once, going out through the surf I dropped the hot stick. I was moving so fast that I couldn't pull it back until I got through the surf and could point up. It did some damage to the connecting link. The standard tiller extension is more flexible and a smaller diameter and would not have caused the same problem.

Howard