What Every Reader Should Know

Every reader should know that getting to 5/21/07 with this boat has been far from easy. My wife would say and I would have to somewhat agree "It's been a nightmare". The boat was self commissioned by my wife and I through 2006 and it was a very ugly process to discover the build issues.

Ongoing legal action against Fairport Yachts prevents me from listing all the issues, but suffice it to say several were life endangering and almost everything was related to the poor quality of construction. We're not talking small things and oversights, we are talking major discoveries.

My wife and I believed that we were through the major items of repair and correct installation and were looking forward to 2007 being the year that we would finally get MAKO to be our Texas cruising platform. Memorial Day was to be the first of three multi-day passages along the coast. We were intending being the Harvest Moon Regatta for the first time in 3 years.