Following several emails asking what happened to the deleted blog entitled "Message from Assassin" (I am flattered by the way) in the interests of balance I feel I ought to draw your attention to the comment from Assassin attached to my previous blog, which I only saw last night.
In response to that comment.
1. I very much look forward to the day when I see Ian do 22kts in less than 10 kts of wind in his Assassin. And so would he as currently he cannot foil at all in less than 10 kts and he is a good sailor. Ian demonstrated his considerable wit when last weekend, in frustration, when he wondered whether he had bought the World's cheapest foiler or the World's most expensive low rider.
2. In order to sort that out he needs the promised Holroyd foil to replace the temporary one he has had for 7 months. Still no sign of it as of last weekend although he did say he got an email asking where did he want it sent.
3. BTW Ian broke a Holroyd rudder foil not a temporary one in less than 12 kts under normal use. He agreed to have it mended locally when by rights he should have had it replaced by Assassin.
My last word on the subject. End of.
FYI
ReplyDeleteAssassin told the original buyers we would update the temporary foils with the Holroyd foils, AS THEY BECAME AVAILABLE.
This was a considerable investment we made. We are about half way though replacing foils, we have been trying to replace the foils of boats in season first. BUT OUR MOULDS ARE GOING 7 DAYS A WEEK trying to get all Assassins up to speed.
There has been delays, our foils are cutting edge and built on the limit, it has taken many sets of broken test foils and hundreds of hrs of building and testing foils.
We are sending out around $100,000 worth of foils in this FREE UPGRADE.
As is very obvious, we don’t want to send out $100,000 worth of foils unless we are happy with there strength. We could have designed slower safer foils six months ago and save about $90,000, but that’s not what we are about. We are striving to have the fastest and cheapest moth with built in reliability.
Free lunch, like you have a clue!!!
We have spent 4 years and hundreds of thousand of dollars, more money than i dear count. This is our life 7 days a week, we are dedicated to the moth and can’t quite understand why you would constantly bad mouth us, you know nothing about us and very little about ASSASSIN
FYI
our foils in a old broken bladerider won the junior world title, increasing Alex’s boat speed dramatically.
P.S
The temp foils take off very early, but lack a little top end speed, so Ian obviously has the AOA a little out
marcel -
ReplyDeleteFYI
our foils in a old broken bladerider won the junior world title, increasing Alex’s boat speed dramatically.
the bladerider was no way old and broken...
under extraneous conditions out of my control of my boat breaking on the last day and not being able to complete the last 2 races... yes
Sorry Alex, presumed it was old after the breakages.
ReplyDeleteMarcel are you and Alex coming to belmont? Juniors should be good this time, looking like 3 kiwi juniors (need to check their ages) and i'm sure there will be a few Aussies.
potentially we might be, but not in a bladerider, its like racing a porsche against a ferrari... if we BOTH get a boat then we will come over and do those worlds too, otherwise we will stay out here
ReplyDeleteHi Everyone,
ReplyDeletefirst of all,m i want to thank Graham for putting this issue to our attention.
I myself have read it with great interest as I used to be an Assassin reseller. I totally agree with everything Graham has written, I just did not speak out as I wanted to solve my issues with assassin. This did not work out.
Thus I have written everything that has happened down and you can read it on my blog:
http://www.foilermoth.com/blog/2010/06/18/never-ever-buy-an-assassin-moth-the-story-of-how-i-got-fucked/
This is the longest post that I have ever written and if you do not have the time to read it just remember one thing:
getting involved with assassin is the worst thing that ever happened to me
Felix