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Showing posts with label overplating. Show all posts

Taylors Boatyard Chester YouTube



Canal Angels has now launched our Youtube Channel. Our first report summarizes the recent attempted narrowboat hull repair by Taylors Boatyard and Dry Docks in Chester, trading as J P Marine UK Ltd. There is commentary after 30secs or so, and we'll try and tidy the whole edit up soon! 

It's worth noting that this video was filmed directly AFTER the vessel failed its weld test by independent professional marine surveyors. Taylors Boatyard then flooded the docks and pushed the boat into the canal system with all the defects evident in the film and the report still not rectified. 

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If you've fallen victim to an unscrupulous boatyard owner, received shoddy service or had a dodgy repair, contact Canal Angels now and we'll warn others

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Taylors Boatyard Threaten To Flood Couple

JP Marine Narrowboat Hull Overplating
Plates being tacked on before the MIG welder was deployed. Picture by Canal Angels

It's 4am on the morning JP Marine at  Taylors Boatyard have threatened to flood the dry dock and asked the customer to leave in a boat that's full of holes- holes that JP Marine have put in their boat. They have advised us they are in a hotel in Chester (The Coach House next to the town hall which is superb).

After Inspection Consultants Ltd (their independent surveyor) re-visited the site yesterday and confirmed "this was the worst welding they has ever seen",  the unhappy customer went to their lawyer and served written notice on the boatyard that should they flood the dock that it would constitute criminal damage. They also informed the police of the situation and lodged a complaint with Trading Standards.

According to Incon, it will cost between £6,000 and £7,000 to rectify the damage JP Marine at Taylors Boatyard had caused, which was roughly what our unhappy customer had already paid them. All the welding needs grinding out and starting again- this time with a competent welder. When unhappy customer asked Incon if they could commission them to oversee the project if JP Marine rectified the problem, they advised "there's simply no point" if they did the same thing again with their own welder. Let's hope they now see sense and bring in qualified people to complete the job.

The customer states that he probably looks stupid, as in hindsight he really should have had independent surveyors from the outset. But when our unhappy customer proposed bringing in Incon for the survey at the start of the project, Yvette Askey reportedly assured them confidently that her husband Peter Askey was a qualified marine surveyor. We have not been able to verify this claim.  "He has also been present each day throughout the re-plating process and personally overseen everything his welder John has done...even helped him cutting out the steel and lifting it into place.  So who's the stupid one, do you think?" said the couple.

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Lights Out at Chester Dry Dock

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 !

Defective welding to hull overplating
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 !
floating a narrowboat full of holes
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:
Performing a hull survey without formal qualifications
Before Overplating

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Canal Narrowboat Overplating by JP Marine at Taylors Boatyard Chester

Defective Narrowboat Hull Overplating Works
After the vessel was lowered onto the new 6mm baseplate

Canal Angels are dedicated to reporting Rogue Boat Builders and exposing dodgy repair yards across the country. If you have a marine or boat of horrors story, get in touch with us and have your say. Your story may help others, and potentially save lives.

If ever you were thinking of renovating a canal narrowboat, overplating or welding a narrowboat hull, fitting anodes, blacking a boat (either bitumen or comastic), having a hull survey, having it tested (there are many tests available including dye penetrant testing, Magnetic Particle MPI testing, ultrasound testing)... then you really cannot afford to miss this blog.

Not only will you discover WHAT YOU MUST KNOW about overplating before entrusting your precious boat or live-aboard home to any marine contractor, you will also learn the pros and cons of pump out toilets (including what's involved in removing one),  integral water tanks versus newer replacement water tanks now available for boats, installing a log burner or multifuel stove on your boat and much much more. By the way, If you're contemplating commissioning your own boat build, you simply CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY


JP Marine Director Peter Askey & the "welder" painting uncleaned new steel

It is now April 19th 2012, and my first unhappy customer has been in the dry dock at Taylors Boatyard Moorings and dry dock in Chester for approaching 2 months waiting completion of the hull, which is being overplated with 6mm on the bottom and 4mm on the sides. JP Marine (Pete Askey) has been contracted to perform this work and provide a BSS Certificate.

I will be writing the blog retrospectively, so that by the time our unhappy customer is out of the dry-dock at Taylors Boatyard you'll have the full picture. If anyone wants to come for a chat if you're local, feel free to call around. The 48ft boat is currently painted in red-oxide, and you can't miss it ! (Now located at Swanley Marina hardstanding) Contact Canal Angels

John The "welder"


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