On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:35:06 GMT, Gene Kearns wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:35:20 -0400, "NOYB" wrote:


"Peter Aitken" wrote in message
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"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:24:14 GMT, "Peter Aitken"
wrote:

I had to laugh at this. We have narrowed our boat choices to two, Pursuit
and Grady White. I am arranging sea trials so we can decide which one we
want. The Grady White salesman tells me:

"Please try the Pursuit first. Then when you try the Grady White it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Grady White
owner"

Then I call the Pursuit salesman to arrange the trial.. He tells me:

"Please try the Grady White first. Then when you try the Pursuit it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Pursuit owner"

What's a buyer to think g?

Don't forget that, "after the sale" thing..... You are not only
buying a boat, but you are partnering with the service department of
your chosen dealership...

I know, but how to judge them ahead of time? One possible factor is that
we will be keeping the boat at the marina that is also the Pursuit dealer.


That's not always a good thing. The last two marinas that I stored my boat
at consistently overcharged me(sometimes 3 to 4 times the estimate). I had
very little recourse, because if I made a stink, they'd toss me out of the
storage...knowing there was a 6 month wait to get into another one.



This *is* a cunundrum.. akin to Pavlog's dogs... are *they* captive
because you are giving them *extra* business by storing your boat
there or are *you* captive because they consider maintenance a given,
since you are storing your boat there....?

As NOYB implicitly suggests.... I'd consider storage separate from
maintenance...

in fact... as I consider this... perhaps preventive maintenance should
be kept separate from non-scheduled maintenance......

certainly not a binary decision since there are so many variables
specific to your situation.... I suggest including this into the
equations provided by Tom.....

The final decision *will* be the result of binary thinking!

--
John H
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes (A true binary thinker!)