Thank you for your response to my posting on the list. I posted it because I believe that any provider of any product especially one that costs over $350,000, has a duty to be courteous and caring for their customers and not to insult them, as your posting would seem to indicate you are accustomed to doing. My contract was written by Rueben Trane and written as he chose to write it, which is to say that he listed each individual item to be fabricated into the boat. There, in fact, were a total of 66 change orders written because the factory insisted on a change order for each and every change, no matter how trivial. Also, my contract gave me the right to provide products for the boat, such as electronics, if I choose, and in many cases I did. This generated a change order. When I purchased hull #2 the company had not sold a boat for nearly one year and was very eager to sell one. In working with Reuben, It was agreed that we would create a more customized boat than hull #1 and as work progressed, many changes were made which eventually lead the company to arrive at the standardized boat which they are now producing. I noticed on the same digest as your posting, that Terry Smith of Houston, Texas saw fit to jump in and support the company. My hope for them is that they continue to enjoy the same experience throughout the continued manufacture of their boat and the delivery of it. I recall their first postings to the list when I was lurking. My boat was mentioned several times by them as being one that was being built with all bells and whistles and was therefore behind in production. This was a line being promulgated by Rueben Trane as a way to explain his way out of the problem of my boat not progressing at a reasonable rate. I called him on the fact that he was not telling his customers the truth and he replied in a way that indicated that he didn't want to embarrass himself by telling them the real reason the boat was stalled in it's construction. Two more points, and I am gone. My contract stipulated in part that I would be given "an estimate of any additional building time requirements" on any change order. I was never advised that I was delaying the construction because of change orders. Secondly, I see Mr. Ficketts viscous and blatant attempt to intimidate me to be his method to effectively negate the warranty problems. So far he has succeeded. Merle G. Weaver RainbowKKW@aol. com Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954 232-9881