Sassy - Accident

Anglers Roost is a nice small CG on the Bitteroot River. Very fly fishing oriented with guided float trip starting there. However, the access to their dump facility is not the best. Trying to line up for the dump I ran the corner of Sassy into an overhanging roof. What a clutz.

Sassy was repaired but it took two months which cancelled fall travels in 2021. Seems like a long time to fix a hole in the fiberglass, but it was a big hole. The insurance company, Foremost, was very good about covering the cost which approached $10K. Our agent at Foremost thought that 2 months was less than average these days. I don't have the expertise to judge, but two months was frustrating. Northern Arizona RV Collision did do an outstanding repair job and I would recommend them highly. They are in Prescott Valley, Arizona.

The accident damaged the interior cabinet, so some replacement wall board was needed. I went back and forth between getting original, very expensive, replacements from Bigfoot or using wall paper on 1/8" plywood. Finally, when I saw how far Sassy was disassembled (so no chance of replacing the panels later) It was decided to get OEM replacements. Well, Bigfoot, after stating the panels were only available from them, refused to sell them to us. They wanted us to waive any liability for shipping damage! This seemed foolish when we had no control over packaging or shipper. Back to wallpaper on plywood. But Shannon, in the Bigfoot Parts Department, went out of her way to work out a way to have two panels drop shipped from the manufacturer in Washington State. Turned out that shipping was considerably less expensive than shipping from Canada. Bigfoot has a good reputation but this left "a bad taste in my mouth" (except for Shannon).

The repair is very well done and isn't noticable. The only time I notice it is when waxing the newly painted surface. The interior is just as well repaired. I see no visible remnants, but somehow the over-the-air antenna stopped working after the repair. When the refrigerator was out we checked all the wires and none were loose or miss connected. But still no TV. The cable TV hookup works fine. It could be at the root antenna which I haven't looked into. We seldom watch over-the-air TV in Sassy so not a problem for us.

All in all a great result after a major oops.