San Diego Marine Surveyor

For the life of your boat the marine engineer (greg moore) is involved. The surveyor and yacht brokers are only there at the begining or end. During every survey there are many problems not discovered until long after the boat has been sold and your stuck with it. I have to then discover the faults and charge you to fix them when the seller should have done it already. These extra cost have been as high as $200,000 for a 80 foot boat. Just this week of July 2011 a young hairstylist boat boat and engines were discovered they needed to be replaced.

Anyone can be a surveyor. You do not have to pay dues to the SAMS society or be licensed by the state to have a survey be official but many surveyors and boat dealers recognize the SAM's society as a source for professional surveyors. The problem is they must get along with boat dealers and loan companies and insurance companies, not just you the buyer. I am the buyers surveyor and my job is not to get the boat sold, its to point out everything you need to be ready to go far out to sea safely. I show the seller my findings and Im fair with them.

   I love surveyors but Surveyors don't spend enough time opening up items and looking inside. They don't understand enough electrics and electronics and they dont spend enough time inside, behind and underneath the hard to see and get to places which always got the least amount of service. Seldom will a surveyor really tackle engines down deep. You need a guy like me who spent his entire life on the repair side of things. No sirveyor knows what a real engineer and real boat builder knows. Just saying.

Call me before you buy your next boat. Insist that you bring your own surveyor and be suspect of brokers or agents who try and talk you into using one of their common surveyors. I have very few broker relationships because of my code of ethics instilled by the USN, ABS and Coast guard.