"Glenn S." wrote in message
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I have heard that from many - getting surveys on brand new boats! It's
pretty sad when you are spending up to hundreds of thousands on a boat
and
you can still come up with a list of issues/defects from a third party.
That's what I call quality control and concern for the customer's hard
earned cash.

Indeed. What is even more pathetic are the folks buying into the ISO
9000/9001 certification crap that some (can you say Sea Ray) boat
manufacturers tout.


ISO 9000/9001 are very good standards to work by - we have many GOOD
contractors working for us whose organizations actually work by those
standards in their day-to-day activities. The problems come when
manufacturers use them only as lip-service

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G.D.Smith
Harpers Ferry, WV


ISO 9000 means nothing for quality of construction. Just means you have
full documentation on the construction. You can have built junk, but it
will be well documented junk.