Marine Surveys (Boating Secrets: 127 Top Tips)
Book Details
Author(s)Robin G. Coles
PublisherTheNauticalLifestyle.com
ISBN / ASINB0083VOKHW
ISBN-13978B0083VOKH5
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description
In Marine Surveys, Robin G Coles interviews Rob Scanlan on the importance of having a marine survey done and the various types. Rob talks about these key points:
- What credentials, experience, and background to look for when hiring a marine surveyor.
- Why most insurance underwriters want an updated insurance survey—structural, mechanical, and electrical—every five to seven years, but not the detailed testing done during a pre-purchase survey.
- How oil samples should be drawn when the engine’s warm, using a separate extraction hose and bottle—everything ultra clean.
- Wooden boat surveys include a close inspection of the boat’s fasteners—random pulling of the screws every four square feet below the water line.
- A fiberglass boat survey involves percussion-sounding the hull with a phenolic hammer to detect if there are any voids in the lamination of the fiberglass layup.
- Dry rot on a wooden boat is detected by picking gently at the wood in the boat’s frame and stringers. De-lignified wood looks like hair or straw.
- After sitting on the hard for a couple of years, a boat needs a full condition and valuation survey. This is more detailed than an insurance survey—it includes hull testing, a wiring systems review, a full computer diagnostic, compression testing, and engine analysis.
- Access the national crime bureau’s boat history report to see if a boat has had a problem in the past.
- If you’re buying a boat on a lake and you intend to take it out on open ocean, you can’t sea trial it on the lake—you’ll want the feel of the boat in two- to three-foot seas.
- The only people that should be at the survey, and on the boat for the sea trial, are the people actually buying the boat. The buyer should be able to stop the surveyor at any point and to ask questions.
- What credentials, experience, and background to look for when hiring a marine surveyor.
- Why most insurance underwriters want an updated insurance survey—structural, mechanical, and electrical—every five to seven years, but not the detailed testing done during a pre-purchase survey.
- How oil samples should be drawn when the engine’s warm, using a separate extraction hose and bottle—everything ultra clean.
- Wooden boat surveys include a close inspection of the boat’s fasteners—random pulling of the screws every four square feet below the water line.
- A fiberglass boat survey involves percussion-sounding the hull with a phenolic hammer to detect if there are any voids in the lamination of the fiberglass layup.
- Dry rot on a wooden boat is detected by picking gently at the wood in the boat’s frame and stringers. De-lignified wood looks like hair or straw.
- After sitting on the hard for a couple of years, a boat needs a full condition and valuation survey. This is more detailed than an insurance survey—it includes hull testing, a wiring systems review, a full computer diagnostic, compression testing, and engine analysis.
- Access the national crime bureau’s boat history report to see if a boat has had a problem in the past.
- If you’re buying a boat on a lake and you intend to take it out on open ocean, you can’t sea trial it on the lake—you’ll want the feel of the boat in two- to three-foot seas.
- The only people that should be at the survey, and on the boat for the sea trial, are the people actually buying the boat. The buyer should be able to stop the surveyor at any point and to ask questions.
