Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Tohatsu UK.....very nice people

So here I was, out in the garden, seeking divine inspiration, trying to write a couple of articles when a knock at the door announced the arrival of my pressie from Tohatsu UK.



Rapidly unwrapped and voila - one completely new lower gear unit to replace my old one. Free of charge. Those few souls out there who follow my blog will know the travails I have had with replacing the lower gear lube due to a blocked gear lube hole - which was blocked because of a misaligned bearing. Previous posts have all the details.




After contacting Tohatsu, who expressed genuine surprise that neither the dealer who sold it to me, nor the service engineers completing my annual services had actually picked up on the problem, felt that I deserved a new unit, even though my outboard is several years outside of its warranty.


Top class customer service from start to finish on everything, from helping to identify the problem, to securing and dispatching a new unit and arranging for me to take the old one to a local dealer I didn't know about after lock down is lifted. 

So rare these days to get truly exceptional customer service. Well done Tohatsu UK - outstanding and very, very much appreciated. 

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