Any yotties in the Plymouth area?
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as title suggests!
My Father & myself are into our 1st year of ownership on our boat (humphries target 30)
& were going to be undertaking some light rennovation work over the comming months so my question is....
Where are the best places to get maintanence done (mechanical & sail repairs)
Im pretty handy with a set of spanners but theres always something that goes wrong which is way above my league.
Also parts seem to be very expensive for what they are (£6.00 for a u shaped bracket with 2 nuts on the end!!!
- maybe im just being tight)
Can anyone suggest any good value places to shop in?
My Father & myself are into our 1st year of ownership on our boat (humphries target 30)
& were going to be undertaking some light rennovation work over the comming months so my question is....
Where are the best places to get maintanence done (mechanical & sail repairs)
Im pretty handy with a set of spanners but theres always something that goes wrong which is way above my league.
Also parts seem to be very expensive for what they are (£6.00 for a u shaped bracket with 2 nuts on the end!!!
- maybe im just being tight)Can anyone suggest any good value places to shop in?
ol' dirty said:
Also parts seem to be very expensive for what they are (£6.00 for a u shaped bracket with 2 nuts on the end!!!- maybe im just being tight)
Can anyone suggest any good value places to shop in?
Welcome to the world of boat ownership.- maybe im just being tight)Can anyone suggest any good value places to shop in?
I've only got a dinghy and everytime we break something on that it costs a fortune to repair.
I'll have a think about places around the area as we used to do a lot of training and racing in Plymouth Sound and often had to buy bits/fix the boat there!
ol' dirty said:
as title suggests!
My Father & myself are into our 1st year of ownership on our boat (humphries target 30)
& were going to be undertaking some light rennovation work over the comming months so my question is....
Where are the best places to get maintanence done (mechanical & sail repairs)
Im pretty handy with a set of spanners but theres always something that goes wrong which is way above my league.
Also parts seem to be very expensive for what they are (£6.00 for a u shaped bracket with 2 nuts on the end!!!- maybe im just being tight)
Can anyone suggest any good value places to shop in?
I'll ask me old man, he's worked in Plymouth area for 30 odd years in the boat trade (he's a surveyor) so knows pretty much everyone in the trade there on the repair side. My Father & myself are into our 1st year of ownership on our boat (humphries target 30)
& were going to be undertaking some light rennovation work over the comming months so my question is....
Where are the best places to get maintanence done (mechanical & sail repairs)
Im pretty handy with a set of spanners but theres always something that goes wrong which is way above my league.
Also parts seem to be very expensive for what they are (£6.00 for a u shaped bracket with 2 nuts on the end!!!
- maybe im just being tight)Can anyone suggest any good value places to shop in?
Just got off the phone to the old man & apparently Westaways in Ivybridge are by far the best for all things sail related. There are a few in Plymouth but he reckons that they are well worth the drive up the A38.
What sort of maintenance work are you after? - there are lots of good (and not so good) people for different things. If you chuck a list on here, I can get some names for you, alternatively if you want to send me a message through my profile with the info, I'll get some names.
What sort of maintenance work are you after? - there are lots of good (and not so good) people for different things. If you chuck a list on here, I can get some names for you, alternatively if you want to send me a message through my profile with the info, I'll get some names.
our website has a few local marine service guys on there. www.eliteyachtservices.co.uk we use these guys and they are all very good!
bga said:
Just got off the phone to the old man & apparently Westaways in Ivybridge are by far the best for all things sail related. There are a few in Plymouth but he reckons that they are well worth the drive up the A38.
What sort of maintenance work are you after? - there are lots of good (and not so good) people for different things. If you chuck a list on here, I can get some names for you, alternatively if you want to send me a message through my profile with the info, I'll get some names.
Thanks alot, your dad may have done the survey for us a couple of months ago.What sort of maintenance work are you after? - there are lots of good (and not so good) people for different things. If you chuck a list on here, I can get some names for you, alternatively if you want to send me a message through my profile with the info, I'll get some names.
We have just had a whole host of things serviced on it...I just wanted to know of a decent mechanic/know it all that is not going to rip us off etc, etc as were new to boat ownership.
I have heardsome bad press about the chap at Westaways, I cant comment myself as we used Ullman's in Plymouth this time around.
We are in need of updating our gps system soon as it dos not pick up a very good signal from the ariel (ariel lead is in bad nick) & the screen is cracked, so could do with some good advice on that?
Edited by ol' dirty on Wednesday 1st August 23:18
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