Engineers. Dont We Just Love them!!

thanks deborah I must have missed the first article. Makes me glad I carry life rafts, I just had a vision of something like that happening out here on my Princess, dont think we would get the same prompt response somehow, no RNLI and I cant imagine the Spanish coastguard acting as quick as the UK's.

Oh by the way was it a standard VHF mayday or did you have the new DSC radio, just curious to hear of someone actually using the new system in ernest.
 
Sorry to hear of your continued woes. Did the "engineers" hail from just upstream of The Bag by any chance?
Can also vouch from personal experience the efficiency and general helpfulness of Salcombe Lifeboat crews /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
I do believe they are, and also in Plymouth. A very nice man called John, who is very helpful and apologetic.

But still, first he said about a week, which sounded pretty impressive, for around 20 grands worth of work. I was not in much of a rush, being winter time, but I'm now feeling five months, is taking the piss.
 
I cant understand how these marine guys stay in business.

With a car, it's like, bring it in on Thursday and collect it same day.

With my manufacturing business, orders required next month, , were made ASAP. Then sat on a shelf. No good waiting for the inevitable happening and a machine breaking down, or the weather changing. Thats just life. Get on with it.

There all in cloud cuckoo land. Launch a boat that has had, every mechanical and electric bit stripped out of it. Then expect everything to work well, is never going to happen.

Yep, the crane driver had a week off, then the weather was rough. So whats new.
 
Can't agree more Haydn.

I think it is indemic in the marine industry...

I ordered a new boat in early March, agreed a delivery date end of April. 1 week before delivery I am told that the boat is delayed 5 weeks!!! 1 week before delivery!

I whinge but there is nothing I can do so I wait. I keep checking up on the state of affairs this time and find that 1 week before the new delivery date the electronics aren't fitted or even scheduled... I had to arrange that myself.

I could just say I won't buy from them again but it seems that EVERYONE is the same in this business so it seems I either just put up with it or get myself a bad reputation (well, worse than it already is anyway!) for being a pain in the butt. Two years ago when I go my first boat I was a pain in the butt to everyone I dealt with because I didn't realise that everyone was the same but now I just look skyward and sigh and accept that this is the way it is if I have a boat.
 
Pleased to report that my new Flecther 19 ordered at SIBS in September 2006 was delivered on schedule in February 2007 and has given 103 stirling hours service this year including a trip across Lyme Bay to Torquay.
 
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