Originally Posted by Lordwrench
Try again. Your buddy Mike and Wildfire Marine was completely complicit in unloading a disaster of a boat they built for a customer on me. I took a straight prison pounding from wildfire marine and zack sayers, their customer who ordered the build. helping their previous customer unload a poorly modified and known compromised hull, I think it lasted him 3 seasons? After ~60k in refurb costs paid to wildfire. Stay far away. Good ole Mr. Mike talked with me and my dad for an hour or so, real nice and old timey, while all along passing off an undisclosed, obviously known, severely compromised hull. The seller had me pick it up at wildfire because "they are fixing some cracks where all seacrafts crack." This was my third SC20,and the casting deck corners are common to crack a bit,they didn't mention the 8" split in the dead center of the keelson. It split on me after not even one season, revealing itself to be poorly patched from the outside only, and sold undisclosed. And at a premium price. The deck and rear bulkhead channel, scupper tubes and interior cap to floor supports cracking to pieces along the way before I realized what the root cause was. The boat was literally coming apart in pieces. After all that expense and hullabaloo(search around CSC, the build is documented in a thread, but not well.), the hull didn't last 300 hours. I don't know when it first cracked with their customer, but it re-cracked in less than one season of nothing but Charleston area sandbar trips.
The seller smugly confirmed after I sent him a photo of the crack that he had already had it glassed once, after the rebuild at wildfire. Zero mention of that defect. Ever. By Zach or wildfire.
This is only the cliff notes, I assure you, Wildfire was bailing themselves and their customer out of a disaster they designed and built together, by selling it to me, completely undisclosed, all the while looking me straight in the eye.
They are dishonest people.
I still have the hull, it's a truly gorgeous piece of garbage, wildfires specialty.
Feel free to contact me privately anyone considering using this shop for all the details.
I abhor drama have been reluctant to say all of this on this forum, I have said pieces of it before,but this post required me to respond and hopefully keep others from making a mistake with this company.
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