Marine surveyor services
To most boating enthusiasts, the surveyor is someone who checks a boat over before they buy it. However, the pre-purchase survey is only one of a range of services that marine surveyors can provide:
- Standard condition/pre-purchase surveys
- Limited scope surveys (e.g. machinery, electrical or ancillary equipment)
- Valuations
- Insurance assessments
- Damage assessments
- Consultancy
- Supervision of new-builds, refits and repairs
- Tonnage measurement surveys
- Compliance examinations for MCA Codes of Practice for Small Commercial Vessels
- Recreational Craft Directive compliance surveys and consultancy
- Boat Safety Scheme examinations
- Legal representation and expert witness work
FAQs
- I am buying a new boat. Should I engage a marine surveyor?
- How do I choose the surveyor I need?
- I am buying a boat, what type of survey do I need?
- Do all surveys give a valuation of the craft?
- My broker has recommended a surveyor. Is he the one to use?
- I've found a boat that I love but the vendor is reluctant to dock the boat for survey.
- How do I decide which marine surveyor to use?
- My boat has been damaged in an accident. Do I need a marine surveyor?
- I am unhappy with my boat yard's performance. How should I proceed?
- I have just bought a boat which needs quite a substantial refit. My yard will not provide a quotation. How should I proceed?
- We have a boat owned by a syndicate. Should a surveyor be engaged by the syndicate or the individuals?
- I need to get a narrow boat surveyed but the only available slipway in the area has a flat-bed trolley and the surveyor will not be able to get underneath all of the boat. Will this be a problem?
- One of your members is booked to survey a boat for me next week but he is telling me that the report may not be ready until three days later. Do you have a member who could give me an instant verbal report so that I can complete on the boat that day if all is well?
- Will a pre-purchase condition survey include a check on propeller shaft alignment?
- I am proposing to buy a 1920s Dutch barge. There are no suitable docking facilities in the area. Could the hull survey be undertaken by a diver?
- How do I proceed when I have decided that I would like to buy a boat?
