good morning all. 46 degrees going up to mid fifties in warming trend, rain coming in tomorrow and Sunday and a high of 74 predicted for Sunday. 74 in January. Maybe I'll go plant some more daffodils.
Actually with all that rain coming in, going to burn the burn pile today.
going to pick up my new eyeglasses this morning. Been running without for awhile after my good sunglasses did not fare well under the rear wheels of the Kubota. Amazing the frame didn't break then, but did a month later. The glass people said to send the frames to the manufacturer; they were less than a year old and expensive. And not to tell them what happened. I just can't do that.
Although some of these companies don't care; they like to get their busted stuff back to analyze.
I had that happen with an anchor on my big boat many years ago. Berthed in Philadelphia marine, narrow fairway between docks but no one had problems. Visiting boater from New England somewhere, with a yacht club Commander or some such thing flying from his boat, all the correct pennants, a beautiful 45 foot Sabre powerboat that had lots of teak that glowed, just a gorgeous almost million dollar boat. Well....talk about a bad day. The guy has bow and stern thrusters, he should have been able to stand on his head, but no, windy day, shallow bottom, he gets going down the fairway too far on one side, the wind blows him further over. Instead of stopping and repositioning, he decides to power out of the situation. Rarely a good idea inside a marina.... The entire side/house of his varnished beauty ran right down the end of my Fortress anchor. Broke out all the glass on the side of his boat and crushed the fiberglass in many places. Just wrecked his boat. I felt the jolt from downstairs and came up to investigate. The guy looked like he was about to throw up. I would have.
So, the moral of this story is that Fortress anchors have a lifetime guarantee. No matter what breaks them, they will fix or repair. They want the broken ones back for sure. The anchor is actually in four pieces and I only needed to replace two smaller ones. My boat was very tough and heavy; the bow pulpit was seriously strong, so only the anchor hit. And parts of it looked like a pretzel. So I call up Fortress customer service and ask to buy the two pieces, and I'll send the bill to the guy who hit me.
Oh no sir, there will be no charge. But you don't understand, my boat was in its berth like a parked car and I was hit, this is not the fault of your anchor. Oh sir no problem, life time guarantee and we will send a shipping container to you to send back the broken parts.
I was amazed.What incredible customer service and product support.
So I never could pay for the anchor.
Let's see, anchor, eyeglasses. Yeah, same thing.
