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mlines

mlines

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Whilst moored alongside at Henley yesterday, our boat was reversed into by a narrowboat. The narrowboat was attempting to moor up in a space that was more than big enough for it, but the skipper saw fit to reverse into our boat despite the shouts from his own crew.

I was not there, otherwise I would have given a more than forthright opinion etc.

My son was on board at the time.

The "Skipper" simply said to my son words to the effect that "you took that calmly", he then simply walked off.

We have pictures of the boat in contact with ours and also the name of the boat and the damage to our Gelcoat.

It is a hire boat called Amerthyst(sic) from Anglowelsh.co.uk

Does anyone have any experience of taking up this with Hire companies? We will require some deep Gelcoat polishing.
 
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mlines said:
The boat yard is sending out their "surveyor", my concern with this is that its their surveyor not mine but we will see what happens.

In my opinion a professional gel coat polisher would be able to sort it, but not a simple "t-cut"
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of course could employ own Surveyor at same time to make an independant survey? But does start getting pricy then!
 
mlines said:
The boat yard is sending out their "surveyor", my concern with this is that its their surveyor not mine but we will see what happens.

In my opinion a professional gel coat polisher would be able to sort it, but not a simple "t-cut"
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Their idea of a Surveyor will just be a geezer who works for them around the yard, it will not be a professional unless it is the Insurance Company sending the Surveyor. You however should get yourself a Loss Adjuster who will take about 5% of whatever he gets back for you.
 
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As you can see, he walked off leaving his boat still resting on ours!

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If you end up having to sort it out yourself I've got a rotary polisher with adjustable speed you are welcome to borrow , just get some compound from a chandlers.
 
teddington_lock said:
If you end up having to sort it out yourself I've got a rotary polisher with adjustable speed you are welcome to borrow , just get some compound from a chandlers.
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Thanks for the great offer. Its a much cherished little boat and every mark hurts!. I will wait to see the outcome and may take you up on the offer. The thing that really rankled was that he walked away leaving the barge resting on our boat. If he had pulled it back forward and apologised I would have just put it down to experience.
 
mlines said:
Thanks for the great offer. Its a much cherished little boat and every mark hurts!. I will wait to see the outcome and may take you up on the offer. The thing that really rankled was that he walked away leaving the barge resting on our boat. If he had pulled it back forward and apologised I would have just put it down to experience.
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I have used Gelshine in the recent past. Not sure if its prudent to give numbers here, so will gladly let you have it if you pm me.

I also have a polisher you can use and a bit closer to you than tedders, if you want it.
 
N0-one seems to have mentioned reporting the matter to your own insurers and letting them sort it out for you?

On the face of it, this should be a no fault claim and your insurers will instruct their own loss adjuster and deal with the whole issue with the offending boats insurers.
 
boatone said:
N0-one seems to have mentioned reporting the matter to your own insurers and letting them sort it out for you?

On the face of it, this should be a no fault claim and your insurers will instruct their own loss adjuster and deal with the whole issue with the offending boats insurers.
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The thing is that its minimal damage and it will polish out. I decided to speak to the hire company direct, hopefully they will sort it quickly and, more hopefully, the hirer will loose his damage deposit as it was the attitude that hurt.

I felt that if the insurers get involved then the hire would have ended and the deposits returned before the hire company got to hear about it.
 
mlines said:
The thing is that its minimal damage and it will polish out. I decided to speak to the hire company direct, hopefully they will sort it quickly and, more hopefully, the hirer will loose his damage deposit as it was the attitude that hurt.

I felt that if the insurers get involved then the hire would have ended and the deposits returned before the hire company got to hear about it.
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If I had a shiny expensive boat and were worried about accident damage I would either contact my insurers and possibly make a noise on an internet forum or contact the owners of the other boat and not make a noise on an internet forum.

If my boat ever gets as far downstream as you I'll be glad to say hi. But if we have a bump I'll be able to say the damage was leftover from your previous incident in June 2013. Hypothetically speaking.
 
Moxon said:
If I had a shiny expensive boat and were worried about accident damage I would either contact my insurers and possibly make a noise on an internet forum or contact the owners of the other boat and not make a noise on an internet forum.

If my boat ever gets as far downstream as you I'll be glad to say hi. But if we have a bump I'll be able to say the damage was leftover from your previous incident in June 2013. Hypotheticallky speaking.
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You could, but I work on the extension to that principle. By making the boat so well known on the internet everyone knows that its shiny and gleaming and would recognise it straight away, so when it suddenly appears scratched shortly after you headed downstream they will all put 2+2 together. ;)
 
mlines said:
You could, but I work on the extension to that principle. By making the boat so well known on the internet everyone knows that its shiny and gleaming and would recognise it straight away, so when it suddenly appears scratched shortly after you headed downstream they will all put 2+2 together. ;)
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Then I would have to say I'd lent my boat to Old Git.
 
mlines said:
The boat yard is sending out their "surveyor", my concern with this is that its their surveyor not mine but we will see what happens.

In my opinion a professional gel coat polisher would be able to sort it, but not a simple "t-cut"
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You wont lose it all from what i can see from the pics, its always touch and go when rubbing down gelcoat as you can always take more off but not put it back on. Could definitely get rid of most if not all. I did this one on a Hunton, from pics the scratches look similar in depth. As the boat was up for sale i didnt want to go nuts, happy to help out if you need any.

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