Well what a saga we have had with this Smartcraft. It all started with a day out on the boat with Julia and Thierry and the kids and the alarms started on the smartcraft and then the anchor wouldn't come up and the end result was a smashed screen on the smartcraft. So we searched the internet and located one on Ebay which we ordered on the 12th April and it was coming from Miami - ironic as that is where we were heading on the 15th April on our American Adventure. No probs as left note for Leah about package coming and all was good. Well unfortunately all wasnt good as Leah didn't see when it arrived and they only keep it at the post office for 10 days so they sent it back - surface mail !!!!! This takes upto 3 months to get back. So with this happening we ordered another one from Ebay and got it here only to discover that it was the wrong model - cummins instead of mercury - but after plugging it in and recalibrating the system we managed to lose all our gauges as well. So back on Ebay and to our amazement we were able to locate another smartcraft which we promptly purchased ( all up this has cost us a bomb ) and this arrived with 2 weeks. After locating Mister Marine who was the man for the job he worked his magic and got everything back in working order - including gauges and it was all fixed by the 17th August - 4 months of no use of the boat. On fixing this Tim was keen to give it a run which was great but unfortunately then showed us that the seals needed fixing so they have now been replaced and we are all go -roll on summer!!!
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