Based on employee of Marine One recommendatons, I purchased a 2014 Grey River Hawk Renegade from Marine One in Langley, BC. The Boat was manufactured by Ameriflex Engineering. After 20 hours of normal use I realized that the boat was defective. The materials used to design the boat are inadequate and continue to deteriorate at an accellarated rate.
This type of defective damage should not be present on a new production Vessel. A full Marine Survey was conducted immediately upon accessing the situation confirming this. Ameriflex Engineering LLC has not stood by its Brand or honoured the Life Time Warranty. Ameriflex has now applied for Chapter 11.
If you are thinking of purchasing an RH Boat please do your homeowork on the boats, get a Marine Surveyors report, and fully research both your dealer and the manufacturer. I would hate for someone else to suffer through this mess. I am now in litigaton and a very pissed off consumer.
This was not a satisfactory repair for me, and after some complaining the boat was taken back into the shop where the chine repairs where grinded down.
During this time large pin holes where present along the chine and the attempt to fix this issue was to use a TIG welding process in the overhead position to repair the 40 or 50 pin holes. This welding process has clearly failed with those as the welds on the pin holes have fallen out and it appears the welding manager was correct in its complexity.
I was surprised that when I suggested the boat needed to be turned upside down in order to use the correct welding position and process I was informed the factory doesn’t have the equipment to do that.
Less than one week out of the factory the cracks above the door re-appeared and more cracks where discovered between the console and the steps despite being at the factory for more than 30 days.
On the next use, 3 weeks later after a day on the water, after putting the boat on the trailer I noticed major buckling on the gunnels and the hull is now bent at the last frame and the metal has fatigued and the bow structure supports have failed.
The reason being
1. Fatiguing above the cockpit door.
2. Fatiguing between the consoles.
3. Buckling of aluminum both sides on the forward gunnels
4. Cracking both sides on the main chine welds
5. Failure of forward bow structure supports
6. Buckling of the main hull section
7. The fatigue of welds where the chine and the gunnel meets
8. The flexing of the metal between the chine and the gunnel is causing the metal to chip off.
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Based on employee of Marine One recommendatons, I purchased a 2014 Grey River Hawk Renegade from Marine One in Langley, BC. The Boat was manufactured by Ameriflex Engineering. After 20 hours of normal use I realized that the boat was defective. The materials used to design the boat are inadequate and continue to deteriorate at an accellarated rate.
This type of defective damage should not be present on a new production Vessel. A full Marine Survey was conducted immediately upon accessing the situation confirming this. Ameriflex Engineering LLC has not stood by its Brand or honoured the Life Time Warranty. Ameriflex has now applied for Chapter 11.
If you are thinking of purchasing an RH Boat please do your homeowork on the boats, get a Marine Surveyors report, and fully research both your dealer and the manufacturer. I would hate for someone else to suffer through this mess. I am now in litigaton and a very pissed off consumer.
This was not a satisfactory repair for me, and after some complaining the boat was taken back into the shop where the chine repairs where grinded down.
During this time large pin holes where present along the chine and the attempt to fix this issue was to use a TIG welding process in the overhead position to repair the 40 or 50 pin holes. This welding process has clearly failed with those as the welds on the pin holes have fallen out and it appears the welding manager was correct in its complexity.
I was surprised that when I suggested the boat needed to be turned upside down in order to use the correct welding position and process I was informed the factory doesn’t have the equipment to do that.
Less than one week out of the factory the cracks above the door re-appeared and more cracks where discovered between the console and the steps despite being at the factory for more than 30 days.
On the next use, 3 weeks later after a day on the water, after putting the boat on the trailer I noticed major buckling on the gunnels and the hull is now bent at the last frame and the metal has fatigued and the bow structure supports have failed.
The reason being
1. Fatiguing above the cockpit door.
2. Fatiguing between the consoles.
3. Buckling of aluminum both sides on the forward gunnels
4. Cracking both sides on the main chine welds
5. Failure of forward bow structure supports
6. Buckling of the main hull section
7. The fatigue of welds where the chine and the gunnel meets
8. The flexing of the metal between the chine and the gunnel is causing the metal to chip off.