PETERS OPAL BA Peters

[Koeketiene]

Re: PETERS OPAL BA Peters - BMF leadership

What does the BMF do anyway?

I mean: what do they do for anyone, what do they achieve...
Bottom line - what do they do for the common yachtie type person?

 

[StephenSails]

Re: PETERS OPAL BA Peters - BMF leadership

They organise both Southampton and London Boat Shows, provide legal advice to marine companies, organise export missions, training, support to british marine companies. Plus lots more.

 

[Koeketiene]

Re: PETERS OPAL BA Peters - BMF leadership

So the BMF's there as a business lobby group - nice for them.

Sounds like they do f all for common boaters.
Strikes me as odd as there was an article in one of the mags last month (might have been ST) that an alternative London boat show at Earls Court was going to hurt BMF. This was considered a bad thing as quote BMF supports us all unquote.

Personally, don't give a toss for BMF.

 

[StephenSails]

Re: PETERS OPAL BA Peters - BMF leadership

They are there for the British Marine Industry, not really anyone else.

 

[moondancer]

Re: PETERS OPAL BA Peters - BMF leadership

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Strikes me as odd as there was an article in one of the mags last month (might have been ST) that an alternative London boat show at Earls Court was going to hurt BMF. This was considered a bad thing as quote BMF supports us all unquote.

Personally, don't give a toss for BMF.

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It was quite a strong article wasn't it. Certainly not sitting on the fence on the issues. Interesting that the editor of that magazine now works for the Excel Boatshow. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Koeketiene]

Re: PETERS OPAL BA Peters - BMF leadership

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Strikes me as odd as there was an article in one of the mags last month (might have been ST) that an alternative London boat show at Earls Court was going to hurt BMF. This was considered a bad thing as quote BMF supports us all unquote.

Personally, don't give a toss for BMF.

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It was quite a strong article wasn't it. Certainly not sitting on the fence on the issues. Interesting that the editor of that magazine now works for the Excel Boatshow. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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Cynic /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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[DeeGee]

What a real bummer! Can't contribute anything but good wishes and hope you manage to retrieve something from the situation. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[rhinorhino]

Sorry to hear of your position.

It will be of little comfort to you but may be of general use to know that when I bought an HR via Transworld I paid a small amount (I recall 2.5%) for the bank to hold all the stage payments against delivery of the finished boat. These sad events highlight the need to protect ourself whn entering into high value transactions, If I recall a similar problem arose when Westerly had one of it's periodic crisis.

Best wishes

 

[hshaky]

Find out where all the new Sealines went the couple of days before