steve_cronin
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Well,
Earlier when someone asked if there was anyone out here who had actually bought a boat at the LIBS, modesty held me back.
But now that my new outboard and my new inflatable appear to have arrived, I have to report the following.
First, yesterday the outboard was delivered, to my office as arranged. It was put out back in the post room but as the day went on, something seemed not right with the large tough cardboard box clearly marked "This way up". At lunchtime, when the fumes of leaking petrol had permeated through the corridors and the stairwell and reached my office, I was a little alarmed. You see we had an arson attack on our hole-in-the-wall ATM on Weds. night of last week.
Rushing down to the replaced machine there obviously wasn't a problem. In the post room I found the culprit.
The engine a Mariner 3.3 had been test run and PDI-ed but then re-packed, upside down with the fuel filler cap vent left open. The carpet in that room was soaked, as supposedly was the front office and the floor of Interparcel's Next-day van.
Ok S... happens. But twice? The dinghy arrived mid morning today but this time at home. My wife rang to tell me and since I was passing the homestead this afternoon, I dropped in to take a look. Inside the box marked clearly "2.65 inflatable dinghy" were several Douglas Gill Coastal Jackets, polar fleeces and six pairs of salopettes.
They say that the party after closing time at Excell on the last day is one one hell of a do!
Steve Cronin
Earlier when someone asked if there was anyone out here who had actually bought a boat at the LIBS, modesty held me back.
But now that my new outboard and my new inflatable appear to have arrived, I have to report the following.
First, yesterday the outboard was delivered, to my office as arranged. It was put out back in the post room but as the day went on, something seemed not right with the large tough cardboard box clearly marked "This way up". At lunchtime, when the fumes of leaking petrol had permeated through the corridors and the stairwell and reached my office, I was a little alarmed. You see we had an arson attack on our hole-in-the-wall ATM on Weds. night of last week.
Rushing down to the replaced machine there obviously wasn't a problem. In the post room I found the culprit.
The engine a Mariner 3.3 had been test run and PDI-ed but then re-packed, upside down with the fuel filler cap vent left open. The carpet in that room was soaked, as supposedly was the front office and the floor of Interparcel's Next-day van.
Ok S... happens. But twice? The dinghy arrived mid morning today but this time at home. My wife rang to tell me and since I was passing the homestead this afternoon, I dropped in to take a look. Inside the box marked clearly "2.65 inflatable dinghy" were several Douglas Gill Coastal Jackets, polar fleeces and six pairs of salopettes.
They say that the party after closing time at Excell on the last day is one one hell of a do!
Steve Cronin
