T&T: Fw: surveyors

[Larry N. Brown]

Oops. Hit the send button instead of insert. Sorry.


>> So how do you know you are getting a good surveyor? I just sold a boat & 
>> I
>> was appalled by the stuff this surveyor missed. My horn didn't work but 
>> he
>> never checked it or any of the lights. He never checked the batteries for
>> condition, etc. Basically, he sounded the fiberglass & looked around. But 
>> he
>> was 'accredited'. I took a look SAMS & NAMS & there are about a hundred
>> surveyors in my area. How do you screen out the loosers?
>>
>> Ed K
> <SNIP>
>
> I don't know whom I'd like to strangle first, the PO or the marine 
> surveyor. Guess you'd expect the PO to lie but I find it unconcienable the 
> vast numbers of wiring mistakes, flawed machinery, systems, etc. that 
> slipped by a supposedly competent surveyer. My wife wanted the boat, I 
> wanted the boat- mistake number one. Had I been disinterested and looking 
> at a boat for someone else, I'd have never missed the countless poor 
> repairs that would need rectification. Basically I paid a high price for a 
> well designed, Jack Hargrave, hull. I paid for my naivete in time and 
> treasure.
>
> The surveyer was a member of a group that has "over 35 years experience on 
> the gulf". Their brocure has endorsements by SAMS, NAMS, ABYC, NFPA AND 
> IAMI. That meant nothing when I got a worthless survey.
>
> I think Ken Williams is on the right track. Every time a listee wants to 
> get a survey, let him so note it on this list. Any listee with specific 
> knowledge of the individual or firm can post his experience with the guy. 
> I don't know how to build a computer database --and I'm still making right 
> all the cr$% that my guy missed--or I'd do it myself.
>
> If we used a common, searchable, title in the T&T subject line and some 
> kind of a common format, seems like that would be a primitive but 
> effective database.
>
> Just a thought.

I personally know of one surveyer, Kristoffer Diel, who is one of the best 
the best in the business. At the moment, he's working out of the New Orleans 
area but it would in all liklehood be worth the expense to have him drive or 
fly him to the job.   yachtsurveys at MSN.COM  No interest other than he's a 
friend and he's so thorough it's frightening. I pour him a rum and let him 
stroll around my boat and I invariably add to my work list.



Regards,

Larry and Teri
M/V Cigano, 47' Prairie Sundeck Cruiser
Lying: Slidell, LA
N 30 13.28
W 89 48.63