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QUOTE(someoldsalt @ Aug 2 2006, 09:55 AM)
More of the same "guys in the marine industry are fucking me and getting rich on me" whining-I like what these two are doing-don't get me wrong-the world needs more young people out cruising and less corporate trained greed monsters, but here they are, they buy a cat secondhand that has already been sailed thousands of miles from its place of build, they have it surveyed by a proper surveyor, they admit they know vey little, they go off sailing a whole bunch more miles, and then one day they find there are problems, big ones, and they go after the manufacturer-who is thousands of miles away and hasn't heard a peep about this boat for a couple years-and demand that he "stand behind his product" Ah, sorry there, the warranty has long expired, is non-transferable, you had it surveyed and you're telling me some guy in NZ says what? Gee, in efforts to be good guys we offer you to either come back to the factory or here's 2 grand and have a nice day. What other businessman that is getting incredibly rich building boats of course, would do otheriwse than try to be nice and say go pound sand?!?! They are admittedly clueless but a little pricky if you ask me-take your lumps and carry on sailing...,BTW are those cats just total pieces of shit or what?
Agree they were pretty naive if they were expecting the manufacturer to send a team halfway round the marble to rebuild their boat for nix. However, they seem to have got it sorted in the long run. The boat came through here a couple of years back and looked good! The only outstanding fault was the mooring cleats attached to the upper/outer edge of the rounded bows - a spin would shred itself on those first time it was hoisted. I didn't meet them, but they were young and having a good time - I suspect there's a bit of money behind them. Good luck to them.
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