Padre
Well-Known Member
Just got back from a glorious 6 weeks in glorious Ontario, Canada on GLORIOUS Jack's Lake. First time out on the boat, for real. Ran like a champ, although the 70 Yamaha spits and sputters and shakes and rattles at low RPM, just as you put it in gear. Couple of broken latches on the live-wells, rattling from the wood-tone cover on the dash. No biggies.
BUT
Putting the boat back on the Karavan trailer, no one noticed that the one guide on board had come loose and fallen down, leaving a LARGE carriage bolt sticking out. Now my beautiful, new, 2013 Bennington has a terrible scratch on the starboard pontoon nose-cone (inside), and a big dent where the nose-cone is welded to the main pontoon (inside.) First nick, first dent.
Dealer says neither Bennington nor the trailer company (Karavan) will cover that under warranty. Only insurance if the toon is punctured, but he doubts it is. The scratch initially looked like the grand canyon, but yesterday when I looked at it again when I dropped it off to the dealer it didn't look so bad. And since it's on the inside of the pontoon no one will really see it.
Sigh.
BUT
Putting the boat back on the Karavan trailer, no one noticed that the one guide on board had come loose and fallen down, leaving a LARGE carriage bolt sticking out. Now my beautiful, new, 2013 Bennington has a terrible scratch on the starboard pontoon nose-cone (inside), and a big dent where the nose-cone is welded to the main pontoon (inside.) First nick, first dent.
Dealer says neither Bennington nor the trailer company (Karavan) will cover that under warranty. Only insurance if the toon is punctured, but he doubts it is. The scratch initially looked like the grand canyon, but yesterday when I looked at it again when I dropped it off to the dealer it didn't look so bad. And since it's on the inside of the pontoon no one will really see it.
Sigh.