All manufacturers survive or die by the quality of their produce. If your new car arrived with a dent in the front fender would you accept it, certainly not, if it failed by having been supplied with a poor engine would we not hand it back to the nearest dealership. Why then do we accept poor workmanship / poor quality fittings etc from catamaran manufacturers when in truth the total cost of our new cat is probably more than the new car towing it to the beach.

If the hull was damaged in transit then ask the fowarding company to have the damaged area repaired, you after all purchased a " new " boat and would expect its condition to be that.

We must also be careful to not hide faults from other prospective buyers of cats as this forum should be totally unbiased and should be a " free " discussion totally independant of the manufacturers.