Go Back   Winnipesaukee Forum > Winnipesaukee Forums > Boating
Home Forums Gallery Webcams Blogs YouTube Channel Classifieds Calendar Register FAQDonate Members List Today's Posts

Closed Thread
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 06-22-2012, 08:37 PM   #1
Belmont Resident
Senior Member
 
Belmont Resident's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Belmont NH but prefer Jackman Maine
Posts: 1,857
Thanks: 491
Thanked 410 Times in 251 Posts
Default Nb

Quote:
Originally Posted by NoBozo View Post
You know what: As I stated earlier...I have NO sympathy for the robber barons in the repair..industry. However.. the symptoms and discovery of GEL in the Carbs makes perfect sence. It's ETHANOL my friends. I have been there....not with my boat but with a motorcycle that was used infrequently....infrequently..THAT's the problem.. $800 to FIX. The motorcycle had 4 Carbs and they were a bitch to remove. I sold the motorcycle AS IS.

Fair and Balanced... NB
I give up on the whole gas thing. If it is small enough to drain all gas out of it including the carb bowl for storage I do. If that is not an option I try and run it down to a low as possible and stabilize the crap out of it then fill it with fresh gas when it comes out of storage(boat). Bikes, sleds, mower, weed wacker all get stable in EVERY tank of fuel just in case they sit around for a while not being used.
An ounce of prevention for every ten gallons and it seems to work.
Can’t tell you how many people are having problems with power equipment that sits unused for awhile, I very rarely do.
2 stroke engines seem to be the most susceptible. I know between my wife and I we have gone through 3 2 stroke snowmobile engines when E-10 first came out.
__________________
"better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, then a long life spent in a miserable way.."
Belmont Resident is offline  
Old 06-22-2012, 09:32 PM   #2
WakeboardMom
Senior Member
 
WakeboardMom's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NH X 2
Posts: 508
Thanks: 595
Thanked 113 Times in 92 Posts
Default

Is "Anchor Management" the wife of "Electric Blue?" I apologize...I'm getting confused.

Ryan seems to be doing a good job of answering the concerns expressed here.
__________________
MarieM
WakeboardMom is offline  
Old 06-23-2012, 07:35 PM   #3
tbonies
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Anchorage, Al
Posts: 145
Thanks: 57
Thanked 66 Times in 33 Posts
Default The very squeaky wheel gets fired

Why does the screamer always leave key elements out of the story? Like others have said, it takes alot to get yourself kicked out as a customer of anything, especially of a marina. Congratulations. Sounds like it was very well deserved. I especially liked the text messages to the employees.
tbonies is offline  
Old 06-25-2012, 07:45 PM   #4
Anchor Management
Junior Member
 
Anchor Management's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Merrimack, NH
Posts: 16
Thanks: 9
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Red face Not 100% honest

Well folks i have already replied to Ryan's post and for some reason the post didn't get posted. Maybe because the webmaster decided this thread is getting a bit out of hand. Either way I really just wanted to say that when our boat was being worked on we didn't feel anything was done out of courtesy, if something wasn't under warranty then in my opinion the marina should have said so, that is their job. We were never looking to get anything for free, we just wanted our boat to work, it was new to us. We had spent nearly 20,000.00 on it of course we wanted it to run smoothly. We had no idea they had made the decision last year to not service us any longer. Ryan claims there were a series of events that had my husband kicked out, we would love to know what those were. I can tell you that we never texted any dock boys last year. Why would we need to? We were still under contract and still using the marina. And as for the mechanic that he is referring to, we called him to see if he would like a side job, and that was after they refused to service us and at the suggestion of a mutual friend. I didn't think that would be a crime in the boating world... Turns out we the engine was stalling because the idle was too low. I'm surprised they didn't catch that last fall. We turned the idle up and the engine been running just fine ever since.

Guys, just remember there are always two sides to every story, I respect Ryan for trying to keep up the image of WM. That is his job. The only reason for my post was to share my experience. This within itself has been quite the experience, funny to see how some of you react. I am a business owner myself and I always try to remember that the customer is always right, at least that's always kept my clients happy.

I hope this post will get posted, it will be my last one.
__________________
only dead fish go with the flow...
Anchor Management is offline  
Old 06-27-2012, 07:03 AM   #5
Shreddy
Senior Member
 
Shreddy's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Moultonboro
Posts: 510
Thanks: 178
Thanked 214 Times in 115 Posts
Default

The cat must have Electric Blue and Anchor Management's tongue...Appears that Ryan's side of each story holds strong. So, what have both Electric Blue and Anchor Management accomplished? They've attempted to demoralize a business while giving them great publicity and a chance to prove that they are cognizant of the issues around them. Seems like a sound business practice to me. Unfortunately, you can't make everyone happy...
__________________
Shreddy is offline  
Sponsored Links
Old 06-27-2012, 08:31 AM   #6
Merrymeeting
Senior Member
 
Merrymeeting's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Merrymeeting Lake, New Durham
Posts: 2,226
Thanks: 302
Thanked 800 Times in 368 Posts
Default

Three different extended family members have purchased three different boats from Winnisquam over a period of 20 years. We've also had them serviced there many times. When the time comes to by a forth, we'll go there again.
Merrymeeting is offline  
Old 06-27-2012, 09:04 AM   #7
Shreddy
Senior Member
 
Shreddy's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Moultonboro
Posts: 510
Thanks: 178
Thanked 214 Times in 115 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shreddy View Post
The cat must have Electric Blue and Anchor Management's tongue...Appears that Ryan's side of each story holds strong. So, what have both Electric Blue and Anchor Management accomplished? They've attempted to demoralize a business while giving them great publicity and a chance to prove that they are cognizant of the issues around them. Seems like a sound business practice to me. Unfortunately, you can't make everyone happy...
I rescind my original statement as I received a PM that Anchor Management has attempted to respond but has been blocked from doing so. I cannot say I'm an advocate of this process on an open forum with a dispute like this in question. However, clearly this isn't my forum, but it surely is appearing to be one-sided.
__________________
Shreddy is offline  
The Following User Says Thank You to Shreddy For This Useful Post:
Anchor Management (06-27-2012)
Closed Thread

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:09 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.

This page was generated in 2.12175 seconds