Well, I'm not going to pass judgment on whether you are a bad guy with the
information available. Even that copy of the legal judgment against you
that one of your former customers posted isn't 100% conclusive because
justice isn't always done. Sometimes hoofprints in the park actually are
from zebras that escaped from the zoo. However...

A 22 foot boat is actually about half the size of a 28 foot boat since the
true measure of most critical things in a boat is volume. So, you got half
the "price" for that engine you thought you did. I wonder it that lack of
care and diligence has something to do with the remarkable vehemence and
number of the "freaks", as you call them, that follow in your wake. Not my
concern or that of those here (unless they pursue buying that other boat)
but I would suggest that similar lack of diligence will get you killed at
sea.

--
Roger Long