Me and my Father went splitsies on a new boat in 2006. We Loved the boat the design, the width, the everything. We purchased it at the boat show and where a little hesitant from buying from a dealer in Havelock as we are from Guelph. Its quite a hike for service. But we liked the boat we liked the dealer, and the boat show spricing was good. We went for it.
I loved that boat. But we did get a bit of a lemon. Paint fell off the hull the first week-end out. Our dealer Rick was wicked. he got them to pay for a new paint job from a custom paint shop in Peterborough area, and squeezed 500 dollars cash out of them to boot. ( Rick is our dealer. And "them" being Lowe boats )
Anyhow, we thought that was pretty slick. The paint turned out to be beautiful. In the next 2 seasons we logged 300 hours on our engine and fished pretty near every week-end.
Late fall 2007 the boat developed a small crack in the hull. ( not on or near welds ) . They fixed it in the spring by spot welding ect ect. didn't work out. The boat started leaking again.
The whole time Rick told us not to worry he would get them to do the right thing. He said give him a few weeks. I was off working 7 days a week in Alberta. And now I work 7 Days a week in Goderich. So my dad and Rick handled it.
And Handle it Rick did. He put the screws to Lowe and even threatened to start selling other boats. He sells a lot of boats so they said to Rick " we want to make you and your customers happy. " What is it we can do to make you happy."
Rick got them to send a brand new boat up with a brand new trailer to boot. They switched our 06 motor and electric trolling motor over for us and Voila. You have one super happy customer.
This might sound spammy but I have no vested interest in this except to give some good press to a guy that worked his tail off for us.
Rick Rodo at Upper Canada Marine will be selling me my next boat after this one.
The New Boat
The old boat. I am going to miss her. I fished in her in the Detroit River, Lake Erie, Niagara River, Lake Ontario, Bay of Quinte, the Whole French River, Nippissing, Marten River, The West Arm, Georgian Bay, lots of memories in 2 years.
Algonquin park for lakers
Bay of Quinte
West Arm
Looking forward to new memories in my new hull. This isn't Spam. I am just a happy customer.
Cheers Folks
New rig looks great Dave. Really like the last picture.
