my custom boat is not to be

[trueblue]

Sc that really sucks man, and I really do hope you get atleast something for your troubles, even if its only as little as 20min alone with the prick who ripped you off.


Everyone else, I don't know SC or speak for him, but lay off on the 'name and shame' requests please, he said we would at the beginning, and is probably seeking advice on not only his options with the 'boat', but probably any consequences of naming and shaming, so please for the sake of SC, and others who might want to keep tabs on this thread, be patient

agreed, people should probably hang back on naming and shaming until all likelihood of retrieving what is his has been extinguished

[Ross_685]

Thats some pretty hard luck mate.

I hope it all gets sorted ASAP and that you get what you paid for.


Im very suprised to hear how many people pay for a boat in full before they receive it????

[sagair]

Sc that really sucks man, and I really do hope you get atleast something for your troubles, even if its only as little as 20min alone with the prick who ripped you off.


Everyone else, I don't know SC or speak for him, but lay off on the 'name and shame' requests please, he said we would at the beginning, and is probably seeking advice on not only his options with the 'boat', but probably any consequences of naming and shaming, so please for the sake of SC, and others who might want to keep tabs on this thread, be patient

Cheers Scott, This is good advise as I am sure he is worried about other people not just himself. Time and place for everything. Regards

[Getout]

A leason for all. There's no way any boat builder should be paid for all of the boat before it is delivered.

A healthy deposit, yes, but only full payment when it is delivered. If it's a decent business it should be able to carry the cost of the build during the course of construction.

Steve

Sadly, I must agree here. If a boat builder cannot afford to carry the cost of materials to build you a trailer boat, then he is not running a viable business.
Sure, in the case of custom builds, a substantial deposit is necessary, but if the builder commisions a build contract, he must have the decency and professional accumen to back the product he is building.
Buying boats from low-volume builders who require progress payments is fraught with danger.
Stick to reputable brands. They don't become reputable by good luck.

[marto78]

Mate thats f@$#%d. We had the same thing happen to us a few years back with one of the retailers going belly up, as soon as we heard we were around there the next morning when the removalists were taken everything out and grabbed what we could and threw it in the back of the vans. Remember possession is 9/10's of the law especially in something like this.

[ozassassin]

Sorry to hear the bad news mate that sucks big time.
It would be nice to think you might get something back for your troubles, but as we all know there are never any winners in a situation like this only the banks then they put up fees to recoup the rest.

[Chooksy]

Mate, that's not good news, I hope you and your family get through this with a win over the boat builder.

[smashed crabs]

Hey everyone

First i would like to say thankyou all very much for your support and words ,there was alot of things i should have concidered before i jumped into the project , with anything it pays not to by on emotion but we tend to do it because realy at the end of the day we are all searching for that happy feeling the gee wizz look at me and im so proud of my boat happy feeling. Sit down and think ,when you buy something many of us do and always will buy a boat based on our own emotions , at the end of the day we want to escape the hussle and bussle of our every day lives and a boat will make you very happy , well at least for me anyway, we love boats so it was very easy for us to jump straight in .

After much thought i will not name and shame the builder , i have been on the phone to him over the last few days and have managed to secure receipt of the completed hull but with no trailer and no cab , this is a start , at least i do have something .
I will not name and shame the bloke, he does have a wife and 4 kids and i do not want to cause any problems to their little one's.It will be hard enough for them now without me throwing more shit at the fan.

Yes i am very disappointed and totally disgusted towards the whole affair but im not a revengefull person but having said that a few days ago i wanted to belt the piss and pick out of him, he really screwed us over by robbing Peter and paying Paul .

I do have some of the details as to why he went bust(another partner) but i do not have the full storey as yet , for all i know he is a good bloke thats tried very hard but failed , so im going to give him the benifit of the dout and more so for his kids.

The reason for this is because my dad went bankrupt along time ago and he was a top bloke , my uncle went bankrupt some years later and he is also a top bloke.
Both my dad and uncle bent over backwards to do a great job for what they provided , they went bust because of shady business partners and both my dad and uncle paid the price and where reduced to nothing over night and never reformed again because of it but the partners who shafted them reformed within a year , at that time i can remember as a kid growing up i had everthing i wanted and then nothing overnight, my dad lost the will to do anything after he went bankrupt ,My self and my two sisters went and mowed lawns and did odd jobs after school, just so we could eat .Then the worst thing happend we ended up living in a tent on the Mitchel river up behind Mount Carbine for a year duffing cattel to eat and catching fish(it was free). Those times where very tuff on us kids back then , shit i have tears in my eyes just telling you guys this stuff. We had an old gal water tank cut in half with a fire box under it to heat the water for a bath, we had to ride a bike 10km each day to the mount carbine pub to catch the school bus to mount molloy, bottom line is dad went bust but he was not a bad person in anyway so i will not do anything foolish and revengefull toward the bloke that robbed us by naming and shaming.

At this time i realy dont know what else to say , still in shock and it is a nightmare that still has not ended .
Thanks again you guys for your words and thanks, will keep you posted as to wether i can lay my hands on the hull shortly, i have the papers for ownership payed in full so lets just hope the banks don't think otherwise. I have been told banks take the first bite but i hope they cant touch it, FINGERS CROSSED!

Sorry for writting alot of words with such drama but all i can be is open and honest

Kindest Regards
SC

[STUIE63]

Smashed all the best mate it looks like good news you can get the hull at least
Stuie

[davo74]

Mate , you are a better man than most ( or maybe a bigger heart). I don't know that i could be like that if someone did that to me. All the best and hope you have a win.

[Chris Ryan]

Gutted - absolutely gutted in reading this and I can't imagine how your feel. Good luck in getting some money back - can the Office of Fair Trading help?

[Pazz01]

All the best SC, hopefully it alll works out well for you.

Something is better than nothing.

Pazz

[Scott nthQld]

SC, like others have said it appears you are a better man than most, i know for sure I would def not have the restraint you have shown, but i guess that comes with having empathy for the bloke, other may say they know what you and he are going through, but without having lived it themselves, they truly have no idea, myself included.

My sympathies to you and your family, and hopefully the loss of all that coin doesn't have too big an impact. I really do hope that you at least get you hull, after all it has been paid for, if you do, i know a bloke in Tsv who is an extremely good alloy welder, very experienced using both MIG and TIG, who might be able to lend a hand finishing what should've been

[Daisy Burnett]

SC
You're a bigger man than me Ghunga Din. Showing that amount of kindness and understanding in the time of your own grief speakes volumes of your moral character. I am sure a man of your character and determination will come through this. Good Luck mate.

Daisy

[White Pointer]

Hey everyone

First i would like to say thankyou all very much for your support and words ,there was alot of things i should have concidered before i jumped into the project , with anything it pays not to by on emotion but we tend to do it because realy at the end of the day we are all searching for that happy feeling the gee wizz look at me and im so proud of my boat happy feeling. Sit down and think ,when you buy something many of us do and always will buy a boat based on our own emotions , at the end of the day we want to escape the hussle and bussle of our every day lives and a boat will make you very happy , well at least for me anyway, we love boats so it was very easy for us to jump straight in .

After much thought i will not name and shame the builder , i have been on the phone to him over the last few days and have managed to secure receipt of the completed hull but with no trailer and no cab , this is a start , at least i do have something .
I will not name and shame the bloke, he does have a wife and 4 kids and i do not want to cause any problems to their little one's.It will be hard enough for them now without me throwing more shit at the fan.

Yes i am very disappointed and totally disgusted towards the whole affair but im not a revengefull person but having said that a few days ago i wanted to belt the piss and pick out of him, he really screwed us over by robbing Peter and paying Paul .

I do have some of the details as to why he went bust(another partner) but i do not have the full storey as yet , for all i know he is a good bloke thats tried very hard but failed , so im going to give him the benifit of the dout and more so for his kids.

The reason for this is because my dad went bankrupt along time ago and he was a top bloke , my uncle went bankrupt some years later and he is also a top bloke.
Both my dad and uncle bent over backwards to do a great job for what they provided , they went bust because of shady business partners and both my dad and uncle paid the price and where reduced to nothing over night and never reformed again because of it but the partners who shafted them reformed within a year , at that time i can remember as a kid growing up i had everthing i wanted and then nothing overnight, my dad lost the will to do anything after he went bankrupt ,My self and my two sisters went and mowed lawns and did odd jobs after school, just so we could eat .Then the worst thing happend we ended up living in a tent on the Mitchel river up behind Mount Carbine for a year duffing cattel to eat and catching fish(it was free). Those times where very tuff on us kids back then , shit i have tears in my eyes just telling you guys this stuff. We had an old gal water tank cut in half with a fire box under it to heat the water for a bath, we had to ride a bike 10km each day to the mount carbine pub to catch the school bus to mount molloy, bottom line is dad went bust but he was not a bad person in anyway so i will not do anything foolish and revengefull toward the bloke that robbed us by naming and shaming.

At this time i realy dont know what else to say , still in shock and it is a nightmare that still has not ended .
Thanks again you guys for your words and thanks, will keep you posted as to wether i can lay my hands on the hull shortly, i have the papers for ownership payed in full so lets just hope the banks don't think otherwise. I have been told banks take the first bite but i hope they cant touch it, FINGERS CROSSED!

Sorry for writting alot of words with such drama but all i can be is open and honest

Kindest Regards
SC

G'day,

May I congratulate you on your approach to this.

You have a pretty good chance of owning your hull. I say this on the basis of the wash up of Fisher where legal opinion said that the hull owners owned a hull with a HIN on it if they had made the progress payments. And that's what happened.

I recommend that you take possession ASAP - by any means legally available.

After that is the problem of who will finish the boat - but one step at a time. Get the hull.

Regards,

White Pointer