Service for 10+ Year Old Boats
I have heard that dealerships in the Southeastern Mass. area are
refusing work on boats over ten years old. Anyone have information as to why? Is this practice common elsewhere? |
Service for 10+ Year Old Boats
It's common at 3A Marine.
wrote in message ups.com... I have heard that dealerships in the Southeastern Mass. area are refusing work on boats over ten years old. Anyone have information as to why? Is this practice common elsewhere? |
Service for 10+ Year Old Boats
Sometimes fixing something on an older boat also involves breaking
something else. As boats age the number of things waiting to break starts to climb. You break things just taking them off to fix the original problem. Or shortly after you work on the boat something unrelated just breaks. The boat owners want to blame you for the additional problems because you were the last one working on it. You know; "I took it in to have the alternator replaced and two weeks later the exhaust risers are clogged." Well sure getting the 14 year old rusted on alternator might have required some banging. And the scale on the exhaust risers that have also been in salt water for 14 years was just waiting for an excuse to drop off by the pound. Some marinas figure it just ain't worth it. On newer boats what breaks is usually one thing and isn't surrounded by other stuff that just about to break. wrote: I have heard that dealerships in the Southeastern Mass. area are refusing work on boats over ten years old. Anyone have information as to why? Is this practice common elsewhere? |
Service for 10+ Year Old Boats
Could be.
Not that they can't, they just won't. Not enough money in it. I mean. if a guy has a nice late model run about or cuddy, he's going to want to fix it. if it's an older tub, and will require a lot of engine work. The bill can be high, and then the guy decides he doesn't want to pay for it because it's supposedly not worth it, or he wants to skimp to "get by" . So the marina gets stuck with a boat thats got a lot of money stuck into it, but still it's a used 10+ yyr. old boat. and they have sa difficult time selling it for what they have in to it, not o****ing storage, and legal work to secure a mechanics lean on it. just my views. wrote: I have heard that dealerships in the Southeastern Mass. area are refusing work on boats over ten years old. Anyone have information as to why? Is this practice common elsewhere? |
Service for 10+ Year Old Boats
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote: Plus, shop labor is getting out-of-sight ($110/hr around here) ..." Wow! I'm in the wrong business! |
Service for 10+ Year Old Boats
Tim wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote: Plus, shop labor is getting out-of-sight ($110/hr around here) ..." Wow! I'm in the wrong business! Think again.... I used to own a small business; I did an analysis for our local city council when they contemplated sticking businesses with another impact fee that some 54% of our gross went to license fees, local, state, and federal taxes, social security taxes, mandatory insurance (workman's comp and others as required by state and other regulations), professional fees (required to keep our doors open), impact fees, and so on. Take another 30% out of what's left for overhead (rent, utilities, and so on) and what you have left is about $18/hr to pay both you and the mechanic with..... Don't blame the end guy for what you pay. |
Service for 10+ Year Old Boats
Oh, I'm aware of the Cost of doing business (C.O.B... like taking it
right in the shorts!) But I'm self employed with little overhead, and its just me, myself, and I. :) CptDondo wrote: Tim wrote: Shortwave Sportfishing wrote: Plus, shop labor is getting out-of-sight ($110/hr around here) ..." Wow! I'm in the wrong business! Think again.... I used to own a small business; I did an analysis for our local city council when they contemplated sticking businesses with another impact fee that some 54% of our gross went to license fees, local, state, and federal taxes, social security taxes, mandatory insurance (workman's comp and others as required by state and other regulations), professional fees (required to keep our doors open), impact fees, and so on. Take another 30% out of what's left for overhead (rent, utilities, and so on) and what you have left is about $18/hr to pay both you and the mechanic with..... Don't blame the end guy for what you pay. |
Service for 10+ Year Old Boats
Tim wrote:
Oh, I'm aware of the Cost of doing business (C.O.B... like taking it right in the shorts!) But I'm self employed with little overhead, and its just me, myself, and I. :) Lucky you... I sold my business and now I'm a wage slave.... :-) --Yan |
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