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Trip called off...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message ... "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... Oh well - the trip to see the Mainships is called off. We set up for Thursday morning - the broker is sick or something. Time out! When did a Mainships become a candidate? Which one are you drooling over? Them there is some nice boats. I am not saying anything. Eisboch Did I miss a 4 day discussion about this? :-( Last year, I stopped at a local marina to pick up some polyester snakes, and I was stopped dead in my tracks by a Mainship trawler in the yard. Gorgeous boat. A salesman came out of the office to ask if I was interested. I said I was, but my bank account was not. He said he was nuts about the boat, and rolled a ladder up to it & said "Take a look anyway - maybe you'll become obsessed with it". Even the smallest details were damn near perfect. You're far too easily impressed, IMO. Mainship builds a good boat, better than many, but it definitely should not compete in the elite class. The Mainship franchise has wandered around from brokerage to brokerage in this region for about the last ten years, and among the reasons one hears for this is frequently "quality control issues." Maybe their express style lobster and picnic boats are different or better than their trawlers. We only see the trawlers in any number up this way- and not really even that many of those. Would I buy a Mainship? Maybe, for the right price, but I wouldn't describe the boat as "damn near perfect". "Better than average in many ways" would be a lot closer, IMO. |
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Trip called off...
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
oups.com... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message ... "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... Oh well - the trip to see the Mainships is called off. We set up for Thursday morning - the broker is sick or something. Time out! When did a Mainships become a candidate? Which one are you drooling over? Them there is some nice boats. I am not saying anything. Eisboch Did I miss a 4 day discussion about this? :-( Last year, I stopped at a local marina to pick up some polyester snakes, and I was stopped dead in my tracks by a Mainship trawler in the yard. Gorgeous boat. A salesman came out of the office to ask if I was interested. I said I was, but my bank account was not. He said he was nuts about the boat, and rolled a ladder up to it & said "Take a look anyway - maybe you'll become obsessed with it". Even the smallest details were damn near perfect. You're far too easily impressed, IMO. Mainship builds a good boat, better than many, but it definitely should not compete in the elite class. The Mainship franchise has wandered around from brokerage to brokerage in this region for about the last ten years, and among the reasons one hears for this is frequently "quality control issues." Maybe their express style lobster and picnic boats are different or better than their trawlers. We only see the trawlers in any number up this way- and not really even that many of those. Would I buy a Mainship? Maybe, for the right price, but I wouldn't describe the boat as "damn near perfect". "Better than average in many ways" would be a lot closer, IMO. I wasn't aware of the quality issues, like the ones Harry mentioned. It was a 10 minute romance. Fortunately, I'm crazy when it comes to researching large purchases, so I probabably would've had it surveyed 37 times. |
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