Desmasdon's Boatworks

Grady-White 192 Walkthrough Video

Matt French — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:53:04 +0000

The Grady-White 192 Freedom is one versatile boat. It is one of our best selling models largely because of all the things it does well and allows you to do on the water. Like all Grady-White’s, this boat is fully self-bailing, unsinkable, safe, and an amazing rough water performer. We can honestly say Grady-White boats are the best rough water boats available; their Hunt designed SeaV2 hulls provide them that great ride all well being stable at rest, impeccable turning capabilities and dry ride. They truly are masterpieces of engineering and design. Check out this video and come see and drive the extensive selection of Grady-White’s we have available and see what all the hype is about. I’m sure you’ve noticed more and more Grady-White’s on the water… there is a reason why, come on in and see.

VIDEO from Grady-White

Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve Needs Help!

Matt French — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:37:17 +0000

Dear Friends,
The Georgian bay Biosphere Reserve needs all of our help. Click on the link below to see and support this extremely important Georgian Bay initiative. We challenge all our Facebook friends and customers to donate whatever they can. The Biosphere doesn’t have much time to raise the $57,000 in lost funding to stay active. Why should I donate you ask? Because the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve promotes a sustainable economy and healthy environment in this Internationally recognized region. We will get the ball rolling by donating $1000.00. CHALLENGE ISSUED!

Click here: http://www.gbbr.ca/

Cheers.

Great news from Grady-White

Matt French — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:11:04 +0000

Check out the Grady-White News page for ever changing exciting Grady-White news.

http://www.gradywhite.com/news/index.php3#89

We’re exceptionally pleased with this most recent post:
CHICAGO, IL: The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) has again awarded Grady-White Boats the CSI Award, the trade association’s top recognition for customer satisfaction. 2011 is the tenth year of the association’s study of customer satisfaction among boat and boat engine owners. Grady-White has received the award in the category of fiberglass outboard boats every single year the study has been conducted.

Grady-White Boats has been recognized with the highest ranking for excellence in customer satisfaction in its category by every third party study ever conducted in the marine industry including these ten-in-a-row NMMA CSI awards and eight J.D. Power and Associates awards in a row. (Although the studies may be resumed in the future, the 2008 Boat Competitive Information Study and the subsequent 2009 awards recognition was the last study completed in the marine industry by J.D. Power and Associates).

The marine industry’s CSI Award program honors participating manufacturers that actively measure customer satisfaction and pursue continuous improvement to better serve the customer. The 2011 award recipients achieved and maintained an independently measured standard of excellence of 90 percent or higher in customer satisfaction, based on information provided by customers purchasing a new boat or engine during the period between April 1, 2010, and March 31, 2011. Participating manufacturers must survey all new boat buyers during this period. For this reporting period, the program surveyed more than 40,000 consumers.

Grady-White received an exceptionally high benchmark score.

Need your VHF License?

Matt French — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:00:47 +0000

Planning a boat trip? Thinking about getting a new VHF? Remember it is a requirement by law to have a proper VHF license before you’re allowed to use a VHF. The Parry Sound division of the Power and Sail Squadron is hosting the course to get you certified for your marine Restricted Operator Card. John Mason and Andy Devos are hosting this two evening (April 23, 7pm and April 30th, 7pm) at the Parry Sound High School. The course costs $75 and, assuming you pass the test on the 30th, you receive your license.

Book now to ensure a seat. To register and for more information or to register email: training@parrysoundsquadron.ca

Cheers.

Welcome John, new service technician.

Matt French — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:34:53 +0000

As we start the ball rolling for spring 2012 and look forward to what is sure to be another wonderful summer we bid a very familiar face adieu. Our long time technician Garnet has retired after 13 seasons with us. He has returned to his home to spend some more time with his family and pursue some passions he hasn’t had time for. We want to wish him well. That said, everyone at Desmasdon’s Boat Works is ecstatic to welcome John to our team.

John comes to us from a major Muskoka marina and has an extensive marine back ground. He has full Yamaha, Mercury, Mercury Verado, MerCruiser and other marine training including factory training on water ski and wakeboard boats and many other factory courses. We’re excited John has joined our already excellent team of technicians with Wayne and Ryan and our expedient and friendly parts and service personnel in Gwen and Kara.

Welcome John! Please take a minute to say hi to John if you see him so he can put a face to the boats he is working on.

Boat Challenge Ending

Matt French — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:35:34 +0000

Hello everyone! We’ve had HUGE interest n our boat through the ice challenge this year so thank you for that. The cut-off date for entries will be this Sunday, March 18 so make sure to get your entires emailed to matt@desmasdons.com before that date or post your guess on our facebook at http://www.facebook.com/desmasdons

The winner will be receiving a pretty cool prize so take a guess and see how it goes.

Spring is just around the corner and boating season is certainly near. We’ve had warm weather and lots of rain so water levels should be up a bit over last summer…fingers crossed.

Good luck and happy guessing. See you all soon.

Boat Through Ice Challenge

Matt French — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:52:30 +0000

The annual boat through the ice challenge has begun! So, what you are guessing is the date and time you believe the boat will fall through the ice. Last year’s winner was off by less than an hour! Please email or guesses to us at matt@desmasdons.com or follow us on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/desmasdons) and place your guess there along with many other. Last year we had over 200 guesses so make sure to get yours in now and get your time slot reserved. Good luck and check www.desmasdons.com and click on webcam to see the live boat and ice conditions in Pointe au Baril Station.

Cheers.

Spring has Sprung!

Matt French — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:52:48 +0000

Hello folks. As I write this looking out the window towards the channel it looks like winter. It looks bright and sunny but crisp and cold. That said, this morning as I left the house to come to work the thermometer read 8 degrees and has now hit 11. After a week of -20 this almost 30 degree difference feels positively tropical! The boat is going on the ice shortly for our annual when will it fall through the ice contest and you know what that means; spring is not far away. Stay tuned folks!

Could feel like Winter

Matt French — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:29:24 +0000

Well folks we have a blast of winter that has finally decided to blow through. Our first real cold snap with evening temperatures supposed to dip down to -20 over night for this weekend. Environment Canada warns of windchill temperatures down near -30. Couple that with some snow and flurries that are supposed to come and Pointe au Baril finally gets some winter. It has been a weird winter here. The ice is not good, we have absolutely no snow at all on the ice (it is like a skating rink) and almost no snow at all on land. The snowmobile trails have bare spots on them last time we checked, but that has to be expected as we haven’t had snow in weeks. If winter is just flirting with us again, we’d prefer it simply lets the sun shine through and spring arrive so we can start boating.

Cheers.

Boat Show a Success

Matt French — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:46:31 +0000

Many thanks to everyone who made our boat show that much better. We enjoyed enormous success this year and owe all of you a big thank you. The amount of people who came into our booth this year and said, “my friends have a Grady-White and told us it is the only boat to consider” was truly astounding. We have great products, friendly and knowledgeable staff and competitive prices all of which seem to add up to a winning formula. Now, time to start looking towards spring and getting things ready for another glorious Pointe au Baril summer.
Cheers.