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From: ShanicaJII (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2001 - 08:37:51 EDT
All I can suggest is that next time you get a work order made up. Then you
have a written contract. As it stands, The owner may be a pain, but if you
have not writen order. He's well within his rights to say no. Next time
get it in writting. Gives you solid ground to stand on.
Pierre.
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 6:41 PM
Subject: lv-ab: Boat Yard Blues
> I had my first experience at a boatyard recently. I did my own sanding &
> bottom painting, but I had 3 specific services I asked the yard to
> do/provide.
>
> When I was hauled, the same clerk who I made my appointment with was
there. I
> reiterated what I was expecting to have done. He made no comment.
>
> After 2 days on the hard with no mechanics or riggers to be seen, I found
the
> service manager and asked when they were going to work on my boat. He said
> there was no work order for me, that I was there only to DIY bottom paint.
>
> To shorten the tale, I got into 2 arguments with the owner, and received
no
> satisfaction. He called me a liar and said to contact his lawyer.
>
> I have an appointment with another yard set up for next week. This yard &
> management come highly recommended. It is about an hour and 1/2 away,
whereas
> the first yard was less than 5 minutes away.
>
> It just burns me up that I will have to pay for another haul & launch
because
> a clerk lied to CHA. The only positive note is that anyone I've talked to
> about the yard I'll be going to has given it high praise.
>
> Live & learn, I guess. I won't say the name of the 'bad' yard here but if
> anyone is in or near Baltimore & would like to know, please contact me
> directly.
>
> Fred Fraim
> S/V Walking Tide
> Baltimore, Md.
>
>
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