Good Job!

Well after my little tantrum about the boat taking so long to be serviced & wired, I have now had some very welcome news from the engineer, He now agrees that the old wiring was as bad as I had first told him it was, & so he has decided to do a full re-wire in place of the original idea of replacing a few fuse boxes, a connector here & there etc, & the good bit is that he will do the job at no extra cost. He gave me a quote originally & as he gave that quote & the work has taken so long due to having to wait for parts, the work is being left at the original quote.
I don`t think he could have been much fairer than that! & it has even softened the dissapointment of waiting so long.
I know now that when the job is done I will then end up with a perfectly good working engine & a great new wiring job along with all my new electronics. The engineer also was kind enough to offer to restore my expensive stainless steel prop as it was looking a bit sorry for itself after spending a long time left under water.
The next job after the boat comes back from the workshop is to restore the jellcoat, replace all the original decals (plus a few new ones) & start decking out the boat with the rod holders, boxes & storage racks, new fenders etc, & there`s a bit of splicing, which I have never done before but will have to learn, by spring the old girl should look like a totally new boat.

trying times!!

Well, I`m quite miffed at the mo, My boat went into the engineers in mid September for an engine service & to have the old wiring sorted out, its now 10th November & my boat is still in the boatyard with the engineers & has cost me two & a half thousend £££s up to date, But as yet the leg is still off the boat & the wiring is nowhere near finished.
I have lost count now of how many times I have gone to see the man & been told "yeh, it`l be ready for the middle of next week."
It seems like next week never comes, Yes! there has been some delay in getting parts, due to the recession, But I would have thought they could have at least have made the effort to do the work that they did have the parts for.
This morning I took in a horn to replace the broken one & was greeted with the fact that the man has taken a few days off & won`t be back til Friday, So! there`s another week it won`t be ready on.
I think that I should tell the man next week that this isn`t good enough, 8 wks is long enough for any service & half a dozen re-wires.
Am I being a bit too impatient or is it reasonable to think that as the work was paid for in advance & I have done a lot of traveling to provide all the bits they required, that they could have done the job within 2 months.