I dropped off my 40 plus foot boat at my Marina on October 18 for winterizing and shrink wrap. As you know we just has a northeaster that dropped a foot of snow. MY BOAT IS STILL NOT SHRINK WRAPED ! What should I do with the marina?
Thanks for your input!
This happened to me once a couple years back. Extremely aggravating. Maxine was hauled on Oct 7 that year and the first snow was early December. I raised hell with the boat yard but they didn't get it done in time. I did manage to cover all the hatches and winches with plastic tarps before the storm. Then we raised more hell. I sent my wife in (teacher) who lectured the office as if they were children. Service has been great since then.
Also there are a couple of business issues that are evident in the shrink wrap application:
1. Some yards use their guys to do the shrink wrap. However, the same guys also haul the boats, and do the winterization for customers who require it. Shrink has lowest priority.
2. Shrink is much more important to sailboat owners than for power boat owners. We have many more hatches, winches, roller furler mechanisms, exposed electronics, and more. Boat yards generally don't understand this.
3. The yard layout is a factor also. They tend to cram boats in tightly when hauled, which makes shrinking difficult. So they try to stay ahead of the hauling to shrink the boats. So if your boat is not stored in sequence, you may wait a long time.
4. Of course the weather is a factor but I feel that they use weather for the number one excuse to angry owners, like us.
All part of boat ownership.