I wouldn't recommend going to Fay's Boat Yard for many reasons. First, when it comes to buying things, you'll have to follow this one old "rule": "If you didn't buy it here, don't bring it here, or you get kicked outta here". That's what some people learned the hard way. Here are a few stories that actually happened in the boat yard.
A family was going on there sailboat for many years at Fays Boat Yard, until one day, the father who is the owner of the boat, showed up on the docks with a bag of brand new life jackets that he bought for his family at another marine store down the street. Merill, who is the owner of the boat yard, saw the guy with the bag of life jackets and questioned him on where he got them. He said he got them at the marine store down the street. Merill got mad, because he didn't buy the life jackets at his marine store, and then, he kicked the whole family out of the boat yard, just because a guy decided to buy a couple pairs of life jackets at another marine store, rather than Merill's.
Did you think that was crazy? Well, here's another story that will be
much crazier.
One day, a guy was going to park his almost brand new truck, which was only 2 months old, with an empty trailer attached to it. With the loud sounds of forklifts roaring by, be couldn't hear the employee who was telling him of which parking space to park in, and he misunderstood and parked in the wrong parking space. The guy inside the truck exited the truck, and you know what happened? The employees of the boat yard picked the truck up. With a forklift. Yep, call me stupid, but that's what happened. The forklift however, was designed only for picking up boats, and boats only, not trucks... Using the forklift, they raised the truck ten feet in the air and moved the truck to its correct parking space. I'm not sure what happened to the trailer, but I don't think what happened to it was good. The two month old truck had severe damage on its under side, with the exhaust pipe messed up. The truck owner was angry that the boat yard would do such a thing, and he decided to take them to court, but the case failed.
Also, here's something that happened recently in August 2011 that you may want to know.
In the men's bathroom, the one closest to the launch ramp which has three showers next to it, someone was throwing gum in the urinal. So they made a small sign saying "Please throw gum in trash not urinal". They then placed the sign inside the urinal for a few days for everyone to pee on. Then, they removed the sign, and placed it on top of the urinal. They left it there for a few more days for it to get all moldy. Then they place it on the sink, where you wash your hands. Disgusting -.- And then do you know what they do? they get a tac and they take the moldy sign and post it on the wall. So when your trying to take a pee, you have a moldy sign socked with urine in front of your face. That was enough. I'm sick of them playing with the sign, moving it everywhere. They could've just kept it in the urinal, or they could of just threw it away and made a new one and post it on the wall. How hard is it to make a cardboard sign with a marker? It must be hard for them if there moving a urine soaked sign everywhere. I just got some toilet paper, and removed the sign myself and threw it away, and then I washed my hands well. Also, whats with these little disposable soap pumps? There kinda inconvenient, and they really need to get a wall pump, like the ones at Mc Donalds.
Also, I had a paddle boat, that I liked to use around the lake. We stored it near our boat next to a tree, then this year, there's a huge crack in it. It took the boat yard a long time to repair it. 2 months to be exact. The "professional" repairs were really ghetto. The outside repair had this weird stuff over the crack, which is barely noticeable from a long distance, but since the interior of the boat is red, they put white tape in the interior crack which makes it look ugly. After draining all the water that got in the boat due to the rain and snow last season, we put it in the water, and after just a few minutes, the boat was rapidly leaking and we had to take it out of the water fast before it sunk. If your going to have any of your boats repaired, don't get it repaired at fays, unless you want your boat 40 feet underwater.
One good thing about Fay's is that they did have a party this year which was awesome, but overall, the cons out weigh the pros, so I would consider going to another boat yard.
Another good thing is that the prices are extremely cheap sometimes, and you may be lucky enough to get a good deal.
The bottom line is, I would not recommend going to this boat yard. I would recommend that you go to another boat yard that doesn't have as much problems as this one. read more
