Fuel tank leak

vas said:
good luck, so have you decided what boat you are renting this season? on tesla only beach visits for dog walks?
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My car will stay at the house...I only park it where there is no car either side...new car syndrome...and that is impossible in the summer!
If I could find a lawyer who says, ‘go rent a boat you will definitely get reimbursed’...then I will go enquire about that 70 footer I saw this morning ?
 
burgundyben said:
Life's too short. Stop fannying about, chop the old one out, knock up a new one, pay the bill, go boating.

No point having a battle, it'll just be a long slow costly ball ache.
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And say there is a serious incident...fuel leak in a protected environment or fire etc etc etc...the insurance investigator talks to the manufacturer or yard and they say that the job was not done to specifications...unfortunately, Benny, are not giving us the specs
 
petem said:
They don't tend to be the best lawyers and in some cases they need to be satisfied that there's >50% chance of winning before they take your case on. It's all in the policy conditions!
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Obviously getting the odds first would be helpful...but this is not a consumer society...there are laws to protect consumers but they always seem inaccessible
 
Bouba said:
And say there is a serious incident...fuel leak in a protected environment or fire etc etc etc...the insurance investigator talks to the manufacturer or yard and they say that the job was not done to specifications...unfortunately, Benny, are not giving us the specs
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Thats a loada weasel wordy rubbish.

You know who makes the tank, order one the same but 100mm or whatever less tall and install it.
 
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burgundyben said:
Thats a loada weasel wordy rubbish.

You know who makes the tank, order one the same but 100mm or whatever less tall and install it.
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It’s over three thousand euros off the shelf...custom made might be a lot more...anyhow it is on our ‘options’ list of things to do...tomorrow we see the marine surveyor..I will hopefully have some more answers by then
 
Boils down to Beny knowingly building banana boats .See my post #990 I predicted this .
They are damed if they do help and damed if they don’t.
Replacing like for like in terms of warranty kinda backing there product and in 5/7 yrs time assuming it’s not set on fire or been involved in a environmental disaster puts them in the firing line or turned around absolves Bouba should officialdom come gunning for someone.

Write up it a report that slags off Bouba boat structure ie infers it’s a banana or a lower accusation the tank could be better installed like what has been suggested ( sat on a frame , strapped in , sight glasses , cocked , earthed - anode protection + sufficient air gap to visual inspect as many sides as possible, + free from any banana effect from the hull ) doesn’t look good for the rest of the owners .

See what the surveyor says ?
So benny will be economic with assistance until they decide the best path , the lesser of two evils to take .

Depending on the survey assuming ( as I inferred in post #990 ) a FR surveyor can be found who’s prepared to diss Beny, Benny might fix it at no cost to Bouba as long as he signs a non disclosure agreement.Or some zero legal comeback .
But I think that ship has sailed with this thread .
Aside would Bouba want to be responsible for future spills in the Porquerolles if officials got all legal and his boat insurance refute him over it .Citing previous known deffects undisclosed on renewal or something along those lines .

Lets just hope
A - the surveyor is independent and accountable…….not to benny .
B - yard liaise with Beny and a suitable fix is found
C - boubas future proofed indemnified from a legal pov of someone coming at him for a environment/ fire thingy if the new tank busts again .Ie followed professionals advice .
 
Just get it fixed , forget benny. I suspect your problem was choosing a benny dealer to do the work. If you took it to a generic independent (but with a good rep) yard, they would get it fixed quick sharp.

I dont really see what the issue is with cutting the old tank up in order to remove it without touching any other part of the boat, and then getting a new smaller tank made up that can also be fitted without touching any other part of the boat. There's not much to go wrong in that situation - ok the new tank could fail, but I doubt it, if its fitted right.

You're in a bit of a tight spot now though, you cant take the boat off this yard and give it to another very easily at this point with engine out etc , but this yard do seem to be making a large mountain out of this molehill.

I guess they are unwilling to fit a non benny tank to the boat (because they are benny dealers) - so the new benny tank cant be fitted without cutting the boat, hence they want benny to tell them it will be ok? you need to convince them that you are happy for them to fit a custom tank as long as it doesnt need the boat cutting up.
 
burgundyben said:
Thats a loada weasel wordy rubbish.

You know who makes the tank, order one the same but 100mm or whatever less tall and install it.
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French somehow like to get all legal and in dispute mode very quickly compared to the U.K. .
Its as if a kinda self centred way and don’t care less for any other attitude they are always looking for blame someone else never in a mirror at them selves.

Pragmatism what you are correctly displaying goes out of the window in the rush to beat down the notorys door .

So everyone involved will want to CYA - cover your arse .

Arie d Boom the big yard at La Rague is run by Dutch ..= great they are pragmatic.
The best boat fixers , working on the CdA mechanics , etc are Italians .Some commute in , some live nearby .Point is they just get on with a fix pragmatically .
As Julian’s infers taking to a Fr on Fr yard was a recipe for disaster because unlike a Dutch man or Italian who would just fix it tge Fr start a blame game and are on speed dial to there Avocats .
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