GL: summer storage on the hard in lower Georgia/Savanah area

[Ralph Yost (home)]

Always get a "not to exceed" cost estimate. Always approve the job by 
writing on the estimate you sign "Approved but billing is not to exceed this 
estimate".
R.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne M Barski" <wbbar at earthlink.net>
To: <foreveryoungboat at aol.com>; <great-loop at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: GL: summer storage on the hard in lower Georgia/Savanah area


> In response to your inquiry about the Hinckley Yard, I can only tell our
> experience in the Hinckely Yard in Stuart Florida, and I can't imagine 
> that
> company policy would be totally different in Ga.  Any work you have done 
> is
> INCREDIBLY expensive.  even if they give you a quote it ends up being much
> more in the end.  They do not want you to do ANYTHING  on your boat 
> yourself.
> When they give you a quote on work to be done, they don't add in the 
> necessary
> supplies to complete the job.  You will be paying hundreds of dollars for
> masking tape, plastic sheets, etc.  We even had to pay for a drill bit 
> that
> one of the workers broke.  The work that they promise to have done in a
> specified period of time takes double the time.  The crowning blow is if 
> they
> do any damage to your boat in the course of completing some work, they 
> will
> NOT make good. Management is difficult to deal with and we were so happy 
> to be
> leaving after storing our boat there for two seasons.  In our book no one 
> can
> afford them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: foreveryoungboat at aol.com
>>Sent: Mar 1, 2009 3:35 PM
>>To: great-loop at lists.samurai.com
>>Subject: GL: summer storage on the hard in lower Georgia/Savanah area
>>
>>hello..
>>
>>we are looking for a place to park our 44' MARINE TRADER this spring the
> summer and until next winter.. when we will come back for?more Florida
> crusing.
>>
>>we have had good reports?about HINCKLEYs in Savanah.. but they are not 
>>a?DIY
> marina..?so we can do nothing on our boat ourselves when it's on the 
> hard.? we
> have also heard they may be very competent but are also?EXPENSIVE... and 
> in
> this economy, we are looking for ways to save a?few bucks?whenever
> possible...
>>
>>when she is?up on the hard we will have the marina do a few things of
> maintenance but primarily we just need her pulled, bottom washer and then
> summerized and shrink wrapped and stored?for 10 months...
>>
>>our insurance demands we get her at least up to cumberland island georgia
> before june 1st.
>>
>>any suggestions and info would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>joe manelis
>>forever young?
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