Marine Super Store

I've found Marine Super Store and Force 4 both offer consistently impressive service and prices; the days of half a dozen individual chandlers at every small harbour with customers treated as a barely tolerable nuisance are long gone - though I wish I'd somehow filmed the old places as they used to be, as newcomers to boat ownership will never believe us ! :)
 
I've found Marine Super Store and Force 4 both offer consistently impressive service and prices; the days of half a dozen individual chandlers at every small harbour with customers treated as a barely tolerable nuisance are long gone - though I wish I'd somehow filmed the old places as they used to be, as newcomers to boat ownership will never believe us ! :)

Oh believe me.. I would !!!
 
Yep, I have had consistently excellent mail order service from Marine Superstore.
Can't say the same for Force 4. In fact right now I am waiting for an order which they did not say was out of stock when I ordered but told me subsequently and has not yet arrived. Not the first time they have done that to me.
 
It's a good chandlery to visit in person too. Makes a trip by sea or car to Port Solent worthwhile.

They have Reeds Almanacs at a good discount.
 
I've found Marine Super Store and Force 4 both offer consistently impressive service and prices; the days of half a dozen individual chandlers at every small harbour with customers treated as a barely tolerable nuisance are long gone - though I wish I'd somehow filmed the old places as they used to be, as newcomers to boat ownership will never believe us ! :)

Are you perhaps having fond memories of Mr Grumpy of SeaTeach? :D
 
"Chandlers" you super rich lot. Peasants like me have to use a local boat jumble or Facebook for our "chandlery". ;) I think the last one I went into, wanted around 4 million pounds for a tin on International paint....I went to Wilko instead and bought weathershield.:cool:
 
Are you perhaps having fond memories of Mr Grumpy of SeaTeach? :D

The manager at a Chichester chandlery was a whole league beyond anything Seateach could muster; I was there one time when a flustered bloke came in asking directions, to be told " are you a delivery driver ? Then get an A-Z and **** OFF ! "

The owner manager at Ostar chandlery in Emsworth was pretty rude too, but then George was genuinely very ill, poor bloke.
 
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Last year I was doing some work on the boat at Mercury and found I was short of a tool (a wire brush I think) so I popped into the Force 4 there and looked around, Bloke behind the desk asked me what I was after, turned out they didn't have one in stock so he popped out to the car park and he leant me one of his which was in his car. :encouragement:

Also a bit of a fan of MSS, good to have a potter round on the way home and I use their click and collect service massively, it's a pity Force 4 don't do the same.
 
I've often phoned Force 4 about stuff I want and they always offer to put it aside, pay when I pick it up; they also do a good mail order system, I expect MSS do the same.

Once when I bought an inflatable dinghy at F4 Chichester ( Donington ) they were super busy but an assistant insisted on carrying it to my car then guiding me as I reversed out of the busy car park - I have always found their service exemplary, with a bit of luck MSS and they regard it as the industry standard now - as I mentioned, a far cry from the old days of ' if you can't see it we ain't got it ' ! :)
 
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