Don't forget, it also depends on what kind of work you need done. With our marina, if you wanted something relatively minor that we have parts in stock for, you might wait a week or less. That would be because we might be able to slip it into a crack in the (very busy) schedule. Need something more major like pulling an engine for work? That's going to get you into several weeks just to get to it and longer to get it back.

I should also add that up here in the great white north, the spring rush is over and our lead times are coming down as we work off the backlog. The middle of the summer is actually the slowest time for us and thus the best / fastest time for you. Then about mid-September, things get stupid again as the schedule fills up with haul outs.

We have one guy (poor bastard) who literally spends his whole day on the phone with folks just like this. This may explain why he drinks.

I'm not that nice anymore.

Yep happens all the time. I've started opening conversations with I'm not even close to the cheapest guy around any more questions?

Survey says money again $$$$$!I'm sure with the cost of parts and short season 30% dowm whould speed things up

Adding 30% on top of the bill works good for me

Ah price shoppers . I have refered a few to the vision of that ammco transmission commercial with the 3 monkeys beating a transmission with plastic baseball bats . About the only way to make lemons into lemonade with those folks

Similar here, but not.

It's amazing what a Dunkies (Dunkin Donuts Coffee) and a nice set of boobs (with a good attitude) will do for you. Right to the top and way cheaper !

I'm dead serious.

"Never underestimate the power of cleavage" Photochick..

Every other year, I question why I bother bringing my boat up to NJ from Florida.
Yes I live in NJ but it never fails, I break something (small or large) and loose 1/2 the summer, It always takes one to two weeks to just get it in the shop or look at it, then it takes a week to take it apart and diagnose, two - four weeks to get x,y,z in parts or send things out to be rebuilt, and then maybe another week or two to put it back together.
Right now it is six weeks and counting since I blew my drive and it is still being rebuilt. I have tried multiple different places and always seem to end up with the same scenario.
Sometimes I think I should just leave it in Florida and run it down there where I know and trust some great people.

Oh and to top it all off.... I prepaid the bill to expedite the shipping and turnaround time!