Captain Bubba Harris Fort Walton Beach Nationwide

I am disappointed at the fact that Mr. Aaron Barney thinks that I dropped the ball on surveying his 1997 20 Hydra Sports. The fact that someone would want to buy a $9,800.00 boat that lives 2,500 miles from where the boat is located is a head scratcher to begin with but I was more than appreciative with the business. I am unfortunately having to spend my time to set the record staight on this situation. I was scheduled to be at the marina and I was late as the job before ran late as it sometimes will, but I was in contact with the salesperson the whole time. When I showed up at the marina who I deal with on regular basis there was no salesperson and no one seemed to know or care where the boat was, that

was trip one to the marina. I then rescheduled I beleive the next day and the boat was ready for me on a rack out of the water. When I finished my out of water part of the survey the boat was then put in the water to do the in water survey. When I went to crank the engine it was dead. One of the dock hands and myself tried to get the boat jumped off and running for over 30 minutes with no luck. I then left as I cannot do a sea trial when the boat will not crank and I was finished with everything except the sea trial. I then came back a third time as the boat supposedly had a new battery and the marina again could not locate the boat as this marina has roughly has a thousand boats in it with a big

business mentality with someone blaming someone else for the problem, keep in mind that most surveyors will come back no more than once or twice. It is not my responsibily as a surveyor to make sure a boat is working before it surveyed, it is the boat brokerage and the broker who has the boat listed responsibilty. I deal with brokers everyday and I would have to say in this case this person has no business selling boats. He was very nice but did not seem to know what or how to do anything related to surveying a boat as he was very hard to locate if at all when I needed information or simply finding the boat in working condition. I then called and told Aaron Barney what was happening and

he asked for his money back and I told him that was not possible as he hired me to do something and I did what he hired me to do except for the sea trial which was apparently impossible. I spent 3 times as much time as normal for a boat this size to get the inforamtion needed. I did call Aaron and discuss everything in detail including the trailer. Except for the sea trial in which I was unable to do given the circumstances. He was sent a 20 to 25 page report with pictures from me within a few days of the physical part of the survey minus the sea trial. I do not know whether Aaron Barney bought this boat or not but I feel like I went beyond what was asked of me as a surveyor which I always have strived to

do with any of my clients. It has been my experience that when someone decides to change there mind on buying a boat they look for any excuse to get out of it and recoup any money spent. I am not saying that is what happened in this case but it wouldn't be the first time someone blames someone else for a problem. Mr. Aaron Barney is understandably upset but I really think he is upset at the wrong person in case. He has no first hand knowledge of exactly what happened other than what he thinks happened. I hope this is the end of this disagreement but there have been some things said about me that are not true and I have a great reputation that speaks for itself. I don't really want to waste any more

time with this but I have to protect my reputation and I am no attorney but if this continues my next call is to my attorney.

Sincerely, Captain Bubba Harris