Just wanted to give everyone a heads up regarding the fire at Seaport Inlet Marina "SIM" earlier this year and the surprise boat owners who experienced damage or a complete loss were provided a week ago. As the saying goes, "buyer beware" or in this case customers beware. All boat owners effected by the fire were early on provided information pertaining to SIM's insurance carrier, claim number and contact information. Owners filed claims against their insurance and for any items not covered filed a claim against SIM's carrier.

Over the course of six weeks, owners were led to believe our claims were being reviewed and we'd hear back from SIM's carrier on a number of occasions. Promises were made and not kept. It was virtually impossible to reach anyone at SIM's insurance company for discussion and if you tried getting an answer from Seaport Inlet Marina themselves the standard reply was they're not involved and we had to call the insurance company directly. The entire process was set up for Seaport Inlet Marina to conveniently have plausible deniability and the insurance company to be completely unreachable.

About a week and a half ago, all owners with destroyed boats were told SIM's attorney was meeting with the insurance company to review the status of claims and to expect updates within 24 hours. Again a date that came and went with no response. The following Monday all owners involved received a notice from the attorney notifying us that a suit was filed with Seaport Inlet Marina as the plaintiff and all boat owners who incurred losses or had their boats destroyed in the fire as defendants requesting a "Declaratory Judgement". So Seaport and their insurance company while telling us they were reviewing our claims, preemptively took the information we provided and filed a suit against us to essentially dismiss our claims. All the time the owner of Seaport was telling his customers if there's anything he could do to facilitate our claims with the insurance company to let him know.

When accidents like this happen, there are those who take the high road and willingly accept responsibility for their actions. And then theirs Seaport Inlet Marina's of the world who destroy your boat in a fire caused by their own employee and subsequently file suit against you in an effort to avoid responsibility. Got to love the irony in that!