" wrote in
ups.com:

My last new boat (expensive), from a major and long time manufacturer
of reputed high quality craft, and only the best rated equipment,
within the first year:



The old manufacturer name means nothing. They got bought up by some
conglomerate like Brunswick, and the conglomerate's accountants are making
the really stupid decisions, now.

Was yours a Brunswick boat? Mine was....Sea Ray.

--
Larry