A new phase in the restoration project

Enough is enough!  The never ending excuses and accusation have taken their toll. It has been a long, cold and way too expensive of a winter thus far.  It seems no matter what we paid it is never enough.  While moving the boat to Piney Narrows Yacht Haven where the boat could be out of the weather, we found the new port shaft, new motor mounts and recently faced couplings appear drastically out of alignment.  The original contractors rechecked everything and feel the transmission coupling is bent or not aligned.  After getting a second opinion, it was felt the new shaft is most likely bent.  The only way to know for sure is to pull the boat, remove the shaft and couplings, and return them to a prop and shaft shop.  We cannot pull the boat until the ice in the marina melts.  Can anybody tell just when that will happen?  As is, the process would likely have required only about three more trips for the contractor to drive to Kent Island.  Instead, the contractor asked to take the boat to a marina in Rock Hall where I have been asked to not visit.  Obviously, this is not acceptable.  Therefore, several discussions ensued in which the contractor doesn't want to have to drive to Kent Island anymore.  Additionally, the contractor made the contention the hold up, in him getting his work completed, is now my fault for some new, heretofore, untold reason - even though he has been paid for every minute he requested.  He found out the hard way that no one threatens "removing his stuff from my boat today"!  In reality, that will result in him finding out just how quickly he can indeed remove his stuff from my boat.  So ends the finger pointing and arguing for now.  The second chapter to this story will be told when the boat comes back out of the water and is thoroughly checked out.

Thanks to all of the many qualified contractors and marinas along the Chesapeake Bay we already have numerous options to finish the boat elsewhere as soon as the ice melts.  This new turn in our adventure will prove very satisfying to me because we are beholding to, and will be taken advantage of, by no one.