Urgent Help Required...

[Dave_Snelson]

...in tracing the owner of a blue hull 20-22ft sports cuddy with a broken engine in the Pwllheli area. The owners are a couple in their 50's with a son at 20 ish and a teen-age daughter. I don't know the boat name - if indeed it has one.

Jools_Of_Top_Cat - have you seen these guys around Pwllheli?

My dinked props (on the advice of my insurance company) are to be the subject of a salvage claim.

I always thought that you had to be 3 miles offshore and then there was "who passes who the rope" implications...apparently, not so!! You can be in 2 inches of water and require aasistance which gives rise to a salvage claim.

Anyone know any different.

BTW - my insurance co have said that a claim is valid, salvage or no salvage.

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[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

Sorry Dave I did not give it a great deal of notice and there are thousands of these park n launch boats that to my untrained eye all look the same.

There are a few ways you can approach this, you know approximately what time he was launched, that company has a roster of launches, I don't think owners can just turn up and take their boats out unless really quiet. So they must have booked.

Or go for a walk, paying attention to boats in the yard and especially one in the workshop in the next day or two, would you recognise it.

You have two friends who have a workshop in Pwllheli, maybe they can advise.

Salvage law >>

Applicable conditions

The formal requisites of an act of salvage, in a way similar to those required for general average, are the following:

1) there must be a serious peril from which the vessel or property could not have been rescued without the salvor's assistance;

2) the salvor's act must be voluntary (no legal or official duty to render assistance);

3) the act must be successful in saving all or part of the property at risk.

Rewards

"(1) The labor expended by the salvors in rendering the salvage service.

"(2) The promptness, skill and energy displayed in rendering the service and saving the property.

"(3) The value of the property employed by the salvors in rendering the service, and the dangers to which such property was exposed.

"(4) The risk incurred by the salvors in securing the property from the impending peril.

"(5) The value of the property saved.

"(6) The degree of danger from which the property was rescued."

These were on an American Site, but I have no reason to believe this is not international law.






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[MedDreamer]

Dave

Just a thought, as you know that the boat was recently serviced by un-named dealer whose competence you have qusetioned; have you asked the people at Bluewater (oops what a mistaka to make).

Surely the Sea-Ray owner would have gone back to complain.

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[hlb]

You have a couple of dinged props. Can be repaired for??? £100???....£50???? Dont go there...!!

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Agree, this isn't something you want to get sucked into. Sounds like the insurance company are trying to get the money for your props from their insurance company, in which case it's your insurance companies problem! The solicitors fees will exceed the cost of the prop repairs before they've written a few letters. This doesn't make sense...

dv.

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[Dave_Snelson]

My props were brand new at £250 a piece, so I don't want re-metalled ones. I may not go there, as you say, but being as I have witnesses and it now looks likely that my rescue efforts are on the harbourmaster's CCTV, I may just go there afterall.

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[Dave_Snelson]

As that famous telly series on politicians once said..."you may think that, but I couldn't possibly confirm it"

The boat in question has now been narrowed down to a Chapperal 21-23ft, 18 month old sports cuddy. I am going to the said firm on Friday to visit their yard, where I fully expect to find said boat.

There is only one Chapparal dealer in that area....

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[duncan]

I can't help feeling that any (in this case either) insurer will consider the repair of 'dinged' props appropriate rather than replacement. If they were alloy and you were missing a couple of inches off the blades that would of course be different!

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[Dave_Snelson]

They are alloy and I am missing about an inch off each blade

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[duncan]

then I understand your concern. Either way I suspect you would be majorly (for me anyway) out of pocket due to an excess so you have little choice but to pursue the route you indicate.
I hope it all works out smoothly and without you having to spend a lot of time and effort.

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[Dave_Snelson]

Thanks Duncan

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