Commissioning a new yacht
Oct 1, 2014 7:38:15 GMT
Post by abgreenbank on Oct 1, 2014 7:38:15 GMT
Hi as I have been through this tortuous process recently I thought I would give some tips to prevent the problems I had.
The boat a 50 DS was bought from my local jeanneau dealer in the UK for delivery to the south of France.
Get involved with the delivery company, I did in a small way, phoned the chosen UK company up after the boat should have been collected to confirm arrival time to be told WHAT BOAT. Week delay waiting for another French delivery company, who were very good but apparently more expensive.
Dont take delivery in south of France in May/ June, the yard that was used in Frejus had over 20 new boats in May, all they were interested in was getting them in the water ASAP, and away, no time for any rectification work.
The dealer and jeanneau want FULL payment before collection from the yard, possibly weeks before you see the boat, my advice would be keep a retention of a few thousand euro/£ to encourage the rectification stage and request evidence that all deposit money is in a client account ( reading through the administration process of Dickies last year SGB finance (beneteau group) didn't loose it's boats as they were not owned by Dickies).
At the handover / sea trial do not accept the boat with faults, do not put any of your gear on board prior to handover/acceptance of the boat.
Do not accept a 1 hour sea trial in 25kts of gusty winds. Ensure you are fully briefed on all systems(you have paid for this)
Ensure the dealer pays for berthing charges prior to handover.
Ensure that anti fouling is done to manufacturers spec, you will get one degrease one coat primer one top coat if you are lucky, and the area when the pads supported the boat on the hard will get a quick top coat minutes before it goes in the water.
If the commissioning yard tells you weeks before arrival of the boat that they don't like you watching the commissioning process, go elsewhere, it's the biggest clue I had that corners were to be cut as much as possible.
i will go into detail on the rectification process in another thread.
i would like to add that I am the very proud owner of a basically well engineered and manufactured product, let down by a few minor quality issues, produced at a competitive price, it isn't an Oyster but I didn't pay Oyster money.
rgrds
alistair
The boat a 50 DS was bought from my local jeanneau dealer in the UK for delivery to the south of France.
Get involved with the delivery company, I did in a small way, phoned the chosen UK company up after the boat should have been collected to confirm arrival time to be told WHAT BOAT. Week delay waiting for another French delivery company, who were very good but apparently more expensive.
Dont take delivery in south of France in May/ June, the yard that was used in Frejus had over 20 new boats in May, all they were interested in was getting them in the water ASAP, and away, no time for any rectification work.
The dealer and jeanneau want FULL payment before collection from the yard, possibly weeks before you see the boat, my advice would be keep a retention of a few thousand euro/£ to encourage the rectification stage and request evidence that all deposit money is in a client account ( reading through the administration process of Dickies last year SGB finance (beneteau group) didn't loose it's boats as they were not owned by Dickies).
At the handover / sea trial do not accept the boat with faults, do not put any of your gear on board prior to handover/acceptance of the boat.
Do not accept a 1 hour sea trial in 25kts of gusty winds. Ensure you are fully briefed on all systems(you have paid for this)
Ensure the dealer pays for berthing charges prior to handover.
Ensure that anti fouling is done to manufacturers spec, you will get one degrease one coat primer one top coat if you are lucky, and the area when the pads supported the boat on the hard will get a quick top coat minutes before it goes in the water.
If the commissioning yard tells you weeks before arrival of the boat that they don't like you watching the commissioning process, go elsewhere, it's the biggest clue I had that corners were to be cut as much as possible.
i will go into detail on the rectification process in another thread.
i would like to add that I am the very proud owner of a basically well engineered and manufactured product, let down by a few minor quality issues, produced at a competitive price, it isn't an Oyster but I didn't pay Oyster money.
rgrds
alistair
