Lights are now back on, and in the early hours this morning the unhappy customer finally received the hull survey they had paid JP Marine for 2 months ago. What is clear from the survey is Peter Askey placed an "urgent recommendation" to address the proximity of the well deck scuppers (deck drain) to the waterline. An "urgent recommendation" as defined by themselves
must be done urgently, preferably before re-floating and certainly before any use is made of the vessel.
Why then would the same surveyor say he is refloating it before this is done, and why has he cut holes in the new steel in exactly the same location as the holes he states are below the minimum recommended level ??
The answer is obvious- he has a queue of narrowboats waiting to get in the dry dock to line his pocket and doesn't care that he may potentially flood and sink one customers' home in the process. Time to get the experts in to stop him!
Our unhappy customer now reports that Peter Askey has also now just put in writing he thinks the weed hatch is too low- even more reason not to float the boat !
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| Dodgy: One of the 9 purposely cut holes on the baseplate |
Next Photo: The poor customers home when JPM floated it prematurely. Water was coming onboard so they drained the dock and it took 30 minutes for the water to stop gushing through all the holes in the baseplate and sides, and a full 2 days to stop dripping !
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| Floated prematurely and taking in water |
note the (new) proximity of the gas locker drain to the waterline. You can just make out the deck drain hole which is now virtually on the waterline if you look closely- and this was with an empty water tank!
The next pic shows where it was before they started work:
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| Before Overplating |
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