IMPORTANT NOTICES

As from January 1st 2010, we no longer accept credit card payments for purchases direct to this office. We have made this decision for the following reasons.
 

• 99% of our clients now prefer to use our Online PayPal Fascility. This fascility is totally secure and is quicker and safer than providing your card details direct to us (the Vendor)    

• For special orders (for example, where we have agreed to a non standard price on a stock plan, or for custom design payments) we can send a Payment request to your email address with a direct link to PayPal which will allow you to remit the amount in total security.

• The standard Eftpos fascility provided by our bank allowed only credit card payments for Mastercard or Visa. Our PayPal fascility allows the use of all major credit cards or debit cards, eCheques or direct payment from your own bank account or PayPal account (if you have one). You, the client therefore has many more payment options.

SPAM, JUNK MAIL and VIRUS MAIL

Many of you will be aware that we are currently going through an unprecedented period of junk email and virus activity. This office, for example, receives a massive amount of this rubbish per day, despite the best efforts of our host ISP and ourselves to filter them out.

I have become aware that there are a number of persons receiving junk and spam email supposedly coming from this web site. I wish to re-assure all viewers that they do not originate from this office.

Unfortunately there are some types of predatory emails which will invade a computer, and then re-issue themselves using the names and addresses found in the mailing lists of that computer. This business is of such a nature that our email address is probably recorded on hundreds of mailing lists, by builders, potential builders, and even just interested people.Somewhere out there, computers containing our email address have been infected, and are responsible for the problem.We are not!

Rest assured that any virus email purporting to have been sent from this web site did not in fact issue from here.  This web site is, as always, virus free, and our systems are protected by the latest anti-viral software, which is updated on a daily basis.

My apologies for anyone who has suffered any problems from these emails, but unfortunately they are beyond our control.

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ILLEGAL COPYING OF BOAT PLANS

Unfortunately, it has come to our attention that there are several boats being built illegally to our designs , using photocopied plans. This is a common and never ending problem in the boat design business, and is something that no boat designer can afford to ignore. For this reason this office has now assumed a policy that builders of illegal boats will be persued to the best of our legal ability.

Boat plans are classed as the intellectual property of the designer, and are covered by both national and international copyright laws. The building of a boat to an illegal copy, without paying the designer his proper due, is theft. Designers spend many long hours producing safe and seaworthy vessels for builders, and to illegally copy those plans is to rob the designer of rights and income to which he is clearly and legally entitled.

Specifically, we are aware of boats being built illegally in South Africa, to our Coral Sea 35 design, by an individual who claims to have authority from us to build 10 boats. Be warned that this person is working from partial copied plans, and has apparently already cost at least one victim considerable expense. Authorities from this office are always issued in writing.

We are also aware of at least one Waller 9.4 (a superceded design) being built in Turkey, without having purchased plans, and several boats built to our popular TS670 trailer cat design, apparently by an as yet unidentified builder in Queensland, Australia.

Should you come in contact with any such person, we would appreciate your contacting us. This would be the right thing to do, and we could save you a great deal of money.  All plans issued from this office are now numbered, and records of all plan purchases are maintained. We can help you identify whether the boat you are being offered is legal or otherwise.

We would also remind builders who have purchased plans in the past that the purchase of a plan entitles them to build one only vessel. Subsequent vessels built to the same plan will be considered as illegal vessels unless a royalty agreement has been entered into between the builder and the designer prior to construction.

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