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At 07:19 AM 8/17/99 EDT, Elizabeth Whelan wrote:
> I have recently had some
>excellent help with repairs and woodwork on my sailboat by a couple of other
>liveaboards.....
>Would a written contract have been of benefit to really having recourse for
boat work gone wrong?
> And most of the work I've seen done around the marina is on a much more
casual basis, often in
>exchange for liquid refreshment!
Perhaps I'm interpreting this differently than you intended. If you are
paying someone to do work on your boat, a contract or a least a brief
written description of what is to be done would be appropriate depending on
the amount of work to be done.
If one liveaboard helps another in exchange for "liquid refreshment" or even
a meal, I think that is done in the spirit of helping one another. I would
be shocked if I offered help to someone and was in turn asked to sign a
contract, or blamed for something that went wrong. Now if they had hired me
for $ to Cetol their teak and I burned the wood stipping off the old finish
or badly gouged their fiberglass, that would be different.
Janet
"Tarka"
Shannon 43
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