Phil

très bon , votre site web thème est véritablement nice , Je suis chasse tout nouveau thème pour mon moncler doudoune individuels site web , j’aime vôtre, maintenant Je vais aller cherchez le même thème !…

I understand your frustration, however I don’t think your post will help. Publishing private e-mails is a serious breech of confidentiality and almost certain to exacerbate the situation.

For the record, I ordered an Assassin in June 2009 for delivery in September. It didn’t arrive on time, I had a succession of delivery dates before making a final payment in December for a late December delivery. The boat was finally delivered on 20 March, 2010 so a 3 month wait turned into 9. The boat was generally well built and solid, however it had some leaks. The worst were inside the wing bar mounts so hard to find. I paid to get them fixed and have filed a warranty claim with Assassin.

I’m not a particularly good Moth sailor (yet) and have given my boat a tough time in breeze up to +20kn, it has stood up to everything and it’s still in great condition. There are no dings or dents in the hull, the foils are solid and nothing has broken other than the tiller extension (a Ronstan Battlestick so not Assassin’s fault). Moths are hi-tech, high maintenance boats. I expect to get it refurbished before the Worlds in Belmont, it will likely cost me around AUD1,000.

Fastcraft NZ are poor at communication and were possibly under capitalised when starting out. Getting a small export business up and running is a tough gig and they are not handling it well. While I sympathise with your feelings, you really needed to do your sums too before you got into being a reseller. It is a risky business, you should have expected difficulties and to have been able to support them during their startup phase.

I realise you think you’ve been let down and are owed money, however your best chance for making amends was to help Assassin to be successful. Publicly dumping on the brand only makes things worse.

Anyhow, all the best and I hope your get your issues sorted.

when I read your blogpost on assassin I agreed to all of it but kept quiet. This is no longer so. For me the story is not only about broken promises but about lies. Telling one that the boat is done and you should pay the full amount, then hearing two month later that it has been started is just unacceptable.
And yes, I would never buy a caravan from them

Felix

firstofall my goal was never to make a lot of money. I am smart enough to know that this is hardly possible. Instead I wanted (as Niki and Paulo) to promote this cheap moth to a mass market audience to grow the class – something that is really important to me.
On the other hand it was never my intention to lose money on the matter. In addition I never did get a decent support from fastcraft. Lots of times we found stuff -like new offers- out by reading their blog. In addition I have been repeatedly lied to. Saying that the boat is done and then hearing 2 month later that it is started is just not acceptable.
I have kept quiet for nearly a year now and nothing happened. Believe me, I really tied to reach a solution. By now I just thought the mothosphere should know about all this so other people don’t get fooled too.
Personally I wouldn’t mind a legal battle over this. At least the issues would finally be solved…

Felix

I presume you wont be investing in FastCraft Caravans then!?

I looked very briefly at the idea of being a UK distributor, but I found their attitude to business and money to be odd and overly forthright / demanding for payments asap.

Good luck with your Moth..

See everyone in Switzerland this summer