I am lucky to be alive, 16 years ago my heart stopped while playing squash. Luckily a Police man was playing on the next court and gave me CPR. I had open heart surgery and an l Aortic Valve replaced, I’m not sure how long the valves last and don’t want to know ………………
With the above in mind I decided to “retire early” and in 2007 sold my business to fulfil a dream of owning a new catamaran to operate charters in the Gulf of Auckland New Zealand and sailing the Pacific islands.
My dream has turned into a nightmare. After 3 years of battling Maverick to get what I ordered, I have now given up and will be putting Andando on the market in “as is where is” condition. I have absolutely no use for a boat I can’t use for charter and never have !
This is a long blog but I’m going on a longish holiday to relieve the stress. So a short version will have to do until I have the energy and time to complete it on my return.
First take a look at my New Maverick 400 which was supposed to be the “NZ Showboat”!
Key Facts
• It was agreed and understood that my order and contract was for a Maverick 400 , to be used for charter and built to NZ certification, all costs including a Maritime NZ Approved Surveyor ,design approval etc ,were to be Mavericks and to be fair they have paid for these.
• Maverick failed to comply with NZ Maritime requirements and did not engage a NZ Approved Surveyor to oversee the build as promised.
• Andano was not built according the design approved plans, build contract and NZ Maritime requirements.
• Andando started to crack up and the entire interior (water based ) paint blistered days into its maiden voyage and in calm seas. Andando continues to crack further .
• Allan Firbank the delivery skipper was wrongly blamed for the structural failures. (ref launch of Andando thread) . He and numerous others have stated ,Andando flexes too much .
• Upon arrival in NZ it was found that the main mast bulkhead was not attached to the hull on one side. A list of warranty work completed and outstanding is attatched.
• Surveyors in NZ requested the entire interior be stripped out in order to be inspected to satisfy a post build survey. (cost guestimate over $100,000)
• On the 19th of October 2012, in a Skype conversation (on speaker phone) Rudi offered to replace Andando with a new boat complying with NZ SSM requirements rather than spend the money stripping out Andano. This made sense and I agreed. This conversation was witnessed by Bobby, who was on holiday with me in Vietnam at the time. This has turned out to be simply “hot air”!
• Andando has been in various stages of repair over the last 2 years. Maverick were advised by me and an independent survey report that the repair was far from satisfactory. Maverick ignored this advice and made the final payment to the repairers.
• Robin Williams( one of our top surveyors) survey is attached.
As I am away on holiday (unfortunately not on my boat) I will be sporadically out of touch with the internet. This whole sager will be continued in detail upon my return. Andando is now officially on the market and a link to my web site is attached maverickcatamaranforsale.com
To those who have supported me over the last 3 years –thank you . Peter