Infinite Jest

There is no end to the fun. 

We had firmly resolved to look only forward from now on, to leave all the misery with the ailing boat behind us and to enjoy our first full boating season. After all, everything should be repaired by now. It cannot be that on a new boat really nothing at all, is in order?!?

Everyone who reads our story surely must be saying to himself that we are just making it up as we go along. But . . unfortunately, we don't make up the defects.

The whole ceiling hangs down. At two corners, it has already come loose.

We asked the carpenter and the mechanic of our port to take a look. It is dripping wet above the ceiling. 

Also a new, independent expert looked at the problem. Our previous expert didn't want to be talked down to anymore and is very happy to leave this new story to someone else.

The problems are so severe that a new preservation of the steel and a new insulation are necessary. the whole ceiling has to be taken down and replaced.

Euroship Services/Kees Cornelissen Shipyards International can then also take a look at the toilet hoses, which are of inferior size and quality according to the expert.  After all, we've always had problems with the toilets. Riemco from Jachthaven Eldorado set up a temporary solution so we could use them. In the process he discovered and repaired a leak and suddenly we have no water in the bilge either. Gag.

What remains is the obviously inadequate insulation and preservation of the hull. The ship is barely a year old and there is already rusting in various places. The surveyor will note this in his report as well.

Glen Cornelissen of Euroship Services, Heerewaarden writes to us directly, in response to our lawyer's letter, "As I stated in my previous email, you are warmly welcome. to the shipyard to investigate the problems. We have the professionals and machinery here to get started immediately."

Where were these professionals when the boat was being built, we wonder? And why do we have to go to the shipyard? Cornelissen would be with us in 40 minutes by car.

Here is the expert's report.