tjbrace
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Ordered at the Boat Show 10 January at 14.00, delivered to home at 11.00 next day.
Quite a service!
Quite a service!
Marine Super Store
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Seajet
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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 ! 
tjbrace
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I now have to go to the local chandlery to buy the fixings, 316 irony or what!
dolabriform
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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 !!!
mainsail1
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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.
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.
James_Calvert
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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.
They have Reeds Almanacs at a good discount.
Poignard
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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?
Capt. Clueless
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"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.
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.
Seajet
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Are you perhaps having fond memories of Mr Grumpy of SeaTeach?
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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Blue Sunray
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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.
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.
Seajet
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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 ' !
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 ' !
