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Mike--
I know the problems you are having. The one and only time I had insurance work done on my other boat, I first tried to get Harry Gibson because of his excellent reputation, but he was too busy. After several other attempts at using a small, one-man-type repair company (one of whom met me at the boat at 10:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning and was already drunk) I wound up having all the work done at Windward Yachts -- at over twice the estimated price. Fortunately, Windward Yachts does good work and the insurance company didn't complain about the cost. The only problem was that Windward would not put the boat back in the water until they got paid ("no cash, no splash") and the insurance company took an extra three weeks to get them a check.
I also used Peter Fransen (per Doug Johnstone's recommendation) for some work on Spirit when I first got her. He did good work at a reasonable price, but I could never get him to come back and finish all of the things I wanted done. He tends to over commit himself and then, if a conflict develops between working on your boat and working on some big, monied boat, he just doesn't show up.
My only recommendation to you is to give "Boatyard" a call. "Boatyard" is the boatyard right next to Windward which used to be Yanmar Boatyard. It's where Peter Fransen works out of. Independent of Peter Fransen they seem to do pretty good work and understand deadlines, schedules and due dates. More expensive than a Harry Gibson or Peter Fransen, but less expensive than Windward.
Good luck.
John
Spirit
Mike Guccione wrote:
> Well nothing is happening on the boat. The main problem is trying to get
> someone to work on the boat. They come down they look around and then they
> tell me they will send me a quote and I never hear from them again nor will
> they return my phone calls. It is the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
> No one will give me a quotation on the work to take to the insurance
> company. The insurance company is calling me asking me to get things
> rolling. We tried Peter Fransen we are still waiting for him to give us a
> quote he has been down to the boat twice in the last 5 weeks. Then there is
> harry Gibson who is not interested until maybe late in march. Ric Bauer does
> not have any interest in doing the job at the current time. F and l
> fiberglass was down last week said they would have a quote out by this
> weekend seems real professional went down to the boat and they now will not
> return our calls either. Guillaume worked on the last guy. Its not that we
> are haggling about price we have not got the first one yet to haggle over. I
> swear I have not been rude to any of these people, I have been on my best
> behavior.
>
> Finally I called windward yachts they are the big yard in the area and the
> last person I know to call. Talked to another real professional type guy and
> maybe he will come thru. His name is John Mc Ginny or something to that
> effect.
>
> At the rate we are going we wont race again this year. The good news is we
> have spent a lot of time fixing up and cleaning the interior. Once we get
> the fiberglass done we are sailing again. The rest can be done between races
> but we can't use the boat in its current condition. Well if someone knows
> why we are having so much trouble getting someone to give us a quote I sure
> would like to be let in on the joke. Maybe the scale of the job is too big
> for the people I have asked. Any advice or help in understanding what is
> going on would sure be nice to have.
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