Another topic on Ship Wiring

[Steve C Cronin]

I have just listened to a BBC R4 programme called "The Bottom Line" which is a self-congratulatory programme MADE by accountants, FOR accountants, ABOUT accountants. Those featured tonight included the guy who has bought Fairline Boats. He was bragging about how he had "improved" matters by getting the designers to incorporate pre-assembled wiring looms rather than, as he put it "Having little men runniong around cutting individual lengths of wire and fitting them" - "Much more efficient and time-saving"

Ho Ho. No thought for the poor owner or technician who has to do a repair in some remote place then?

Another "Improvement" which I know they also introduced was to fit their 50 footer weighing 13.5 tonnes with 6mm anchor chain! A neighbour of ours in Gouvia Marina had this option with a puney windlass and a toy anchor. Having suffered for three years he has fitted 10mm chain, a Lofrans Tigress and a Delta anchor, despite Fairline telling him that their standard set-up was perfectly adequate. I remember him dragging gracefully past us on two occassions in Lakka harbour, last year!

God preserve us from "Bottom Line Merchants" AKA "Accountants"

 

[Babylon]

I have just listened to a BBC R4 programme called "The Bottom Line" which is a self-congratulatory programme MADE by accountants, FOR accountants, ABOUT accountants. Those featured tonight included the guy who has bought Fairline Boats. He was bragging about how he had "improved" matters by getting the designers to incorporate pre-assembled wiring looms rather than, as he put it "Having little men runniong around cutting individual lengths of wire and fitting them" - "Much more efficient and time-saving"

Ho Ho. No thought for the poor owner or technician who has to do a repair in some remote place then?

Another "Improvement" which I know they also introduced was to fit their 50 footer weighing 13.5 tonnes with 6mm anchor chain! A neighbour of ours in Gouvia Marina had this option with a puney windlass and a toy anchor. Having suffered for three years he has fitted 10mm chain, a Lofrans Tigress and a Delta anchor, despite Fairline telling him that their standard set-up was perfectly adequate. I remember him dragging gracefully past us on two occassions in Lakka harbour, last year!

God preserve us from "Bottom Line Merchants" AKA "Accountants"

Yes, I heard that on the radio. The Fairline guy was really chuffed with himself.

Maybe they imagine that:
1/ Fairline owners don't do their own maintenance or repairs.
2/ Fairline owners expect their 'little men' to simply order an entire replacement loom, and bill them in the usual way.