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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2007 - 16:21:36 EST
Hi Judy, and others
Well having delivered one Moorings Leopard from SA to the BVI's i can
confirm everything Judy said - the boat is bubble wrapped internally and you sleep
on a poly wrapped mattress you dont get using ANY of the boats gear - then
when you get to the BVI's you spend two days in the anchorage on Peter Island
making the boat look like new. True story once we tied up in the Moorings
base in Roadtown one of the crew went ashore for a well earned shower and when
they were walking back to the boat in the Moorings base he was met by an
American couple who were admiring this 'new' Leopard cat and they asked if we had
just come back from Anegada - when he informed them that we had just
delivered it from SA they did not believe him - it took some convincing them that
this was in fact the case.
However this was not a Moorings cat but 'i understand' an owner owned Voyage
440 - Voyage cats are also built in SA and share the same designer as the
older Leopard Cats Alex Simonis the new Leopards which i dont like are
Morrelli & Melvin designs ALA Playstation.
Being a delivery skipper myself i can state that working for Moorings and a
private owner are like chalk and cheese - that is not to say some private
owners are not as demanding as Moorings but very few (none in my experience) to
my knowledge are as prescriptive as to you not being able to make use of all
the boats facilities and would expect the boat to be 'as new' after a trans
ocean voyage.
Like i said i cant imagine WHY an EPIRB would be locked away except for the
reason i gave - using MY LOGIC - as to the suggestion that it would not have
been used in extremis because they might get prosecuted after the event - i
find that suggestion obscene bearing in mind three people lost their lives
here.
FINI
regards
David
In a message dated 11/01/2007 19:09:00 GMT Standard Time,
writes:
We had occasion to speak with 3 delivery captains last summer in
Trinidad. Each was delivering new 46-ft Leopard catamarans from
South Africa to various Moorings charter base locations: one to BVI,
one to La Paz, and one to Tonga. The one to La Paz stopped in
Trinidad to obtain parts because one of the motor mounts for one of
the Yanmar engines had broken while crossing the Atlantic in rough
seas. The one to Tonga wanted to deliver going east and under
Australia (like he does when delivering monos), but because this was
a catamaran he was required to go west, adding 3600 NM to the
delivery. Said they will not permit him to take the cats across the
southern Indian Ocean, so he had to take the long way around.
The delivery crews are not allowed to use anything on the new boats
while performing the delivery -- not the chartplotters,
refrigerators, nothing. They are allowed to use one head only and
one bed only. Their food must be kept in a separate cooler. The
boat interior must look like new when the delivery is complete. Each
captain carried his own handheld GPS. The captain is provided with a
Satelitte phone to use to check weather and report his position
daily. The EPIRB (IF one is aboard) would likely not yet be
registered; as registration is done by the boat owner, not by the
boat manufacturer or Moorings.
Yep, assumptions are always a bad idea.
Judy
S/V Security
Amel SM2 #387
--- In _world-cruising at world-cruisiwor_
(mailto:) , dlm48 at dot dot dot wrote:
>
>
> NOW you are making assumptions ALWAYS a bad idea - doubly so in
this case
> since the US Coast guard made the use of the 'old'
EPIRB's 'ILLEGAL' !!!!
>
> So do you know what style of EPIRB this boat had????
>
> Playing the assumption game - and knowing that this boat had come
all the
> way from South Africa with an experienced delivery skipper - can
you see him
> locking away an EPIRB - i dont see that as possible - BUT they get
into USA
> waters and suddely the EPIRB is ILLEGAL so he puts it back in its
box and
> locks it away. So again playing the assumption game -
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