Pitchpocket: I dont really want a lawsuit. I am inherently against filing lawsuits just for the sake of filing them. As far as damages go, I lost a rod and reel, no tackle. The rod and reel will cost between $250.00 & $300.00 to replace. The seat breaking on the boat caused me to get wet and cold, and the subsequent ride into the log jam kind of scared me...... My getting cold and wet was nothing more than an inconvienience.... I'm a big boy, I can stand a little cold and wet without having to worry about melting. The scared part is no biggy either, I've been scared before. The only REAL loss is the rod and reel and the broken seat on my now useless pontoon boat. Now, if Waterskeeter is a good company, they will repair the boat and replace the rod and reel and we'll all be happy. If the quality of my boat is any indication as to the quality of Waterskeeter as a company, well then, I'm going to get pissed off and I WILL DRAG THEM INTO SMALL CLAIMS COURT. Hopefully, this will all get worked out with no real bloodshed. Maybe I'm being a bit simple minded about this, but I feel that since the defective seat caused me to fall off the boat, thus losing my rod, that Waterskeeter should replace the rod as well as repair the boat. For instance, I am a Welder, if I were working for some company, any company, welding something together, lets say a crane boom. I finish the job and they fire the crane up and start to lift a load with it. Lets say the welds I put in were defective and as a result, the boom on the crane collapsed, crushing the office trailer of the clients my company did the job for. Now, would my company ONLY be responsible for repairing the defective crane boom, or would my company have to pay to replace the office trailer also, because my welds were deefective and the office never would have gotten smashed to begin with, were it not for the defects in the welds on the crane boom. Does that make any sense or am I all screwed up in that line of thought?