Boat Damage from Boat Yard

[endlesspursuit]

Sorry about your ordeal but a letter from my attorney would be at least $300. So probably just move on or hit up your insurance for the damages. I have a Google photo album with pics of my boat on a lift and on a forklift. They pull it both ways depending. I also have photos of transducer locations. I make sure the guy running the lift sees them and we discuss location of straps or forks before hand. A picture is worth a thousand words.

[Cloroxbottle]

Originally Posted by Bear-O-Ness

Would appreciate any response from anyone as I am going to pursue this with the port commissioner.

A few years ago, we had our boat hauled and stored at a yard. At some point it appears as if someone dropped something heavy on our windshield, cracking it. My guess it was when they were either removing or reinstalling the boom at the gooseneck.


Denial - it's not just a river in Egypt.


The only thing more difficult than getting them to admit it seems to be finding someone to manufacture a new one.

[S/V Illusion]

Originally Posted by Bear-O-Ness

. He started to pull but realized that they were in the wrong place and moved them forward. .

Let’s review - according to what you stated above, he correctly repositioned the straps. You offered that information unsolicited as describing the move. Yet you somehow conclude their proper action caused damage.
Further, you offer no explanation narrowing the time when the damage occurred.

I think you just lost any basis for your claim.

[Boatyarddog]

Originally Posted by S/V Illusion

Let’s review - according to what you stated above, he correctly repositioned the straps. You offered that information unsolicited as describing the move. Yet you somehow conclude their proper action caused damage.
Further, you offer no explanation narrowing the time when the damage occurred.

I think you just lost any basis for your claim.

The Lift operator started the lift, in my understanding, then realized the problem.
Boat owner NOT Present, as he was in the office filling out paperwork.
How is that right?
Or proper.
I used to work at the port for a private business there.
They left due to the incompentent Port actions, as well exsorbinate charges placed upon business owners.
At this yard you must watch their every move.
File a complaint with BBB at least.
Fire off some emails to the executive director, Sam Gibboney, let them know if you intend to sue.
Assemble your evidence, photos, statements.
You should get some relief, at least spread the Word about it.
Boat Haven Port Townsend much better.
SV Cloud Duster

[S/V Illusion]

Originally Posted by Boatyarddog

The Lift operator started the lift, in my understanding, then realized the problem.
Boat owner NOT Present, as he was in the office filling out paperwork.
How is that right?
Or proper.
I used to work at the port for a private business there.
They left due to the incompentent Port actions, as well exsorbinate charges placed upon business owners.
At this yard you must watch their every move.
File a complaint with BBB at least.
Fire off some emails to the executive director, Sam Gibboney, let them know if you intend to sue.
Assemble your evidence, photos, statements.
You should get some relief, at least spread the Word about it.
Boat Haven Port Townsend much better.
SV Cloud Duster

I was simply citing what he actually wrote; not what I think he meant or some hypothetical about what might have happened.

Regardless, as I wrote previously, this is a ‘he said, she said’ and we don’t have the other side of the story so can’t make an informed judgment

[Boatyarddog]

Originally Posted by S/V Illusion

Let’s review - according to what you stated above, he correctly repositioned the straps. You offered that information unsolicited as describing the move. Yet you somehow conclude their proper action caused damage.
Further, you offer no explanation narrowing the time when the damage occurred.

I think you just lost any basis for your claim.

Originally Posted by S/V Illusion

I was simply citing what he actually wrote; not what I think he meant or some hypothetical about what might have happened.

Regardless, as I wrote previously, this is a ‘he said, she said’ and we don’t have the other side of the story so can’t make an informed judgment

The port made its case...and wrongly so.
The strap slipped off, yards responsisbility.
The statement by the lift operator confirmed that. Here.

"Strap slipped off of the end of the keel and hit the prop shaft. Yard says it was my responsibility to know were to put the straps and make sure they were in the proper place myself! I was still signing the release paperwork when they were actually lifting the boat so could not have even seen where they were. He started to pull but realized that they were in the wrong place and moved them forward."

Yards fault admittedly.!
SV Cloud Duster