[Rhodes22-list] Chris Cowie and GB

[Stan Spitzer]

Charles, I'll have to use up one of my jury rejections with your "sounds 
believable" before your hearing the rebuttal to Chris's chapter 2.

Chris, you Chapter 2 statement,/"I put together a team of three partners 
and an investor and visited the plant"/  misleads the jurors.

In truth there were 3 in your entourage, no 4th *Investor.* In truth, 
for the entire few hours of your plant visit there was not a single 
mention of a single cent of investment.

Further, your e-mail to the List statement, "even this new proposal 
would not work for Stan" continues your misleading. This was not a new 
proposal. It was the same proposal: Ownership of General Boats in return 
for absentee long distance management.

Had you really brought an investor, I was fully evidence-prepared to 
talk investment.  Had you (or your partner) been willing to work with 
me, side by side to build on General Boats substantial assets in turning 
GB into a powerhouse business, I was fully prepared with a dossier of 
all the vertical and horizontal related business divisions this company 
is poised to expand into.  I was, and remain, open to such serious 
partnering.

Your original, and ongoing, offering of invisible long distance 
management is not an offer of serious partnering.  It is not a path to 
lightening the load on me but rather a corporate structure that would 
broaden my single handing chores.

I know, you are going to state that your offer this time was slightly 
different in that you brought with you the father of your partner who I 
could hire, train and house to help get the boats out for Annapolis.  At 
my age everyonelse is young, so age was not an issue.  The experienced 
management issue was that taking one of our two crew off production to 
orient and train a new employee is a slowing, not a speeding up, of our 
immediate goal.  Nevertheless I took this gentleman on a detailed verbal 
and visual tour of the operation.

In view of your e-mail advise that this was to be a two day meeting, we 
diligently diverted two workers, sorely needed for behind scheduled 
boats, to ready accommodations.  When I returned from the tour with your 
partner's father, to my surprise you were ready to leave; a unilateral 
decision: No next day serious give and take meeting.

stan