When you, as a boat owner, take your boat to have work done, don't you want the work done right?  Don't you want the work done the way you ask for it to be done?  Don't you want workers with the appropriate skills for each part of the job?  Have you ever had any work done to your boat that was not completed in a satisfactory manner?  I have!

It's hard to get a real feel for the poor quality of work that was done by the photos, but the words will help you to understand just how bad this work really is.  You can click on the pictures to get a large view so you don't have to squint.

This is one of 8 scarfs that were made.  The existing piece is on the left, and the new piece is on the right.  You can see the very uneven cut on the new wood and the gap that remains between the two pieces.  What's hard to tell from this photo is just how bad this scarf really is.  This is a caprail piece that's about 6 inches wide.  Compare the gap to the #10 screw head on the existing piece of wood....it's huge!  The gap on the near-side of this joint where the joint is obviously messed up has nearly 1/2 inch gap.  They attempted to make up for this by filling this huge gap with thickened epoxy but couldn't even manage to do that with any reasonable success.

These are four of the other scarfs, just so you get the idea that it wasn't just one scarf that's mucked up...it's ALL of them.

And, under the caprail there's a toe-piece.  This piece runs around the underside of the caprail and is seen from outside the boat quite clearly.  Look at the joint on the left-most picture.  Beautiful work, huh?  Oh well, at least it's partially filled....

Using the left-most picture as a reference, see how the wood properly covers the top half of the head of the chainplate bolt?  Now look at the other two pictures.  In the center picture, it looks like an attempt was made to cover the bolts, but look at the rough spots where the wood goes over the bolt heads.  How did this even happen?

On the right-most picture the wood was cut out around the bolt heads...WHY?  Notice that when they painted the hull they did not paint all the way up, but stopped where the wood should cover...that's OK if the wood actually covered that area, but it doesn't.