Boat Surveying

All of our survey methods and practices follow the format promoted by the Institute of Marine Engineer's 'Small Ships Group' and apply to steel, fibre-glass composites, timber and aluminium craft.

The individual elements of the craft are assessed separately and as a whole in order that a detailed, coherent and user friendly report can be put together. The individual reports break the craft down into a number of separate sections, each containing positive and negative comments together with a list of recommendations as appropriate within each section.

We conduct the following surveys:

• Pre-purchase condition survey
• Insurance condition survey
• Hull external inspection
• Partial survey
• Damage inspection
• Valuations
• CDIM / MISW Surveys
• On / Off Hire Surveys
• Bunkering Surveys

Surveys are conducted for a number of reasons. The following photographs illustrate the range of survey work routinely carried out by J D Wood Surveying.