Wow this guy had some big issues with Contender Boats

Wow purchasing a boat is an thrilling day but to have it in the shop as a lot as this man did, thats a challenging capsule to swallow.

Contender Breaches Guarantee – Chapter One particular

We have been fishing offshore Florida and the Bahamas for 20 several years and performing tournaments for most of these years. We have held USCG Captain’s licenses, ran charters, operated air boats, race boats, generally each form of boat there is. Our fishing staff, Bloodstream was a loyal customer of Contender Boats until finally we had a issue.

Our two prior Contender boats had been 31’s. We by no means had difficulties with them other than the normal tension cracks that Contenders get. We nevertheless own a 31with a 1000 hrs and it only has the normal pressure cracks that Contender s get. When we made the decision to buy a new Contender 33 is when the troubles commenced. Whilst ordering our new contender, my two partners and I went to the dealership on a day that the VP of Revenue from Contender was present. Our meeting consisted of us three, the vendor salesman and the VP of Profits from Contender (at this stage mentioning their names provides no worth to the tale and only delivers adverse attention to them). They informed us that the Yamaha 300 HPDI’s had some troubles the 1st yr out but now are excellent engines. We where told for the duration of this meeting that these 300 HPDI’s in which lighter in weight, quicker, just a tad louder and hardly utilizes any oil unless you are WFO. This all sounded quite great and, opposite to what is speculated, our fashion of fishing east central Florida focuses on extended array trips (Tuna fishing eighty+ miles out) where ease and comfort and fuel array and intake is a consideration. To more persuade us to go with the 300 HPDI’s they carried out a meeting call to the Contender factory for us to hear initial hand about Joes son who also selected 300 HPDI’s for his 33t vessel. For the duration of this phone they preceded to talk about performance quantities that we ought to anticipate to see with our new vessel that the boat would run 65 mph loaded. Associated to long assortment trips and gas consumption this mixture of 300 HPDI’s on a 33t ought to get one.three to one.4 at 40-45 mph. This discussion about &gt obtaining five-seven mph more quickly with the identical gasoline and low oil consumption strongly influenced our selection to go with the Yamaha 300 HPDI’s. We in no way observed these kinds of overall performance numbers and noted such on our very first letter to Contender dated July 20, 2007. Be aware right here: This letter and timeline is accessible on timeline or court documents webpage . Also note that this letter is dated July twenty, 2007 and right here we are going community for the first time on Feb 2010

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