HURRAH!!

You guessed it - the insurance are going to pay - no assessor required...Relieved??? You betcha...Looks like I might get some sailing in this summer after all!!HURRAH!!!!!...

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Quote is with the assessor..

..fingers crossed...The quote from Chris came in yesterday and I banged it off straight away to the insurers..Bad news is that the quote was bigger by some margin than the ad hoc quote he did me on the night, the good news is that it is still half the previous quote I had so well within the insured...

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"What a difference a day makes...

...24 little hours" etcetc...Well not quite a day - more like a week... so what's been happening?? Well I can honestly say that I must have investigated every avenue known to man this week in an effort to get some kind of a rig back on "Papillon"... following the bad news from the insurance company...

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Bit fed up..

Bit fed up - certainly no sailing being done, glorious sunsets or not.. I finally heard from the insurance company on Friday.. as I suspected, they have advised me that the insurers "are likely to deem the boat as a constructive total loss" because the cost of the repairs exceed the value of the boat..So...

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The meaning of BOAT...

...my sister tells me that the meaning of BOAT is "bring out another thousand", having seen the quote that has now arrived I'm inclined to think she may actually be right!!It's in the hands of the insurers now but the repair company have given two options - a new mast (which is their recommendation) or repair the old. The repair option comes in at about £1200, the new mast option comes in at about...

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..no progress....

As it says - no real progress so far on the repairs... the repair company's man has visited the boat and is currently away putting together the quote... and has been now for getting on almost 3 weeks.I keep chasing but no real progress other than the comment that they will be providing a quote that...

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