OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
Should have posted this in the spring but was hoping to have some sort of resolve by now.
So, we didn't trailer the Supra (or the Four Wynns) down last year, instead choosing to store them at the marina we park at. They are a family owned operation, pretty decent bunch, have done some work on the Four Wynns for dad that has been well done, and the prices aren't extravagant.
The Supra trailer requires a pretty decent drop hitch to work properly on their ramp and I suspect somebody didn't get the memo/didn't look (they tend to have young lads pulling these out of the lake) and when she was pulled out of storage to go back in this spring, I saw that the cage for the prop/rudder had been pretty mangled and there was a ding in the prop:
We were obviously not thrilled about it.
I took these pictures and then sent them to my dad, who was up there all summer, expecting him to deal with the marina. Well, that didn't actually happen. So, eventually I was able to go up last weekend and showed them to the wife of the owner, who was of course concerned and she asked me to e-mail them to her husband, which I've now done, but I've heard nothing back. My dad hasn't followed-up with them either, despite being over there a few times, so I may have to.
I had the boat out (it was launched and everything was apparently fine, they used it all summer) and it has a vibration now, which my sister says has been there all summer. It did not have a vibration last year. I'm not sure if it's the prop or if there's a wow in the driveshaft now, but I did bring attention to that in my discussion and correspondence with them, so I expect they will deal with it when the boat is pulled.
Not a great "first storage" experience, and I'd like to bring it back down here, but at the same time, I want to give them the chance to fix it, since they caused the problem.
Ugh.
So, we didn't trailer the Supra (or the Four Wynns) down last year, instead choosing to store them at the marina we park at. They are a family owned operation, pretty decent bunch, have done some work on the Four Wynns for dad that has been well done, and the prices aren't extravagant.
The Supra trailer requires a pretty decent drop hitch to work properly on their ramp and I suspect somebody didn't get the memo/didn't look (they tend to have young lads pulling these out of the lake) and when she was pulled out of storage to go back in this spring, I saw that the cage for the prop/rudder had been pretty mangled and there was a ding in the prop:
We were obviously not thrilled about it.
I took these pictures and then sent them to my dad, who was up there all summer, expecting him to deal with the marina. Well, that didn't actually happen. So, eventually I was able to go up last weekend and showed them to the wife of the owner, who was of course concerned and she asked me to e-mail them to her husband, which I've now done, but I've heard nothing back. My dad hasn't followed-up with them either, despite being over there a few times, so I may have to.
I had the boat out (it was launched and everything was apparently fine, they used it all summer) and it has a vibration now, which my sister says has been there all summer. It did not have a vibration last year. I'm not sure if it's the prop or if there's a wow in the driveshaft now, but I did bring attention to that in my discussion and correspondence with them, so I expect they will deal with it when the boat is pulled.
Not a great "first storage" experience, and I'd like to bring it back down here, but at the same time, I want to give them the chance to fix it, since they caused the problem.
Ugh.