Survey for Tonnage and Measurement the Canary Islands

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Looking for someone to do Survey for Tonnage and Measurement for the purpose of Part 1 Registration in the Canary Islands. Anyone local? Or not a rip-off one?
 
You'd be best advised to contact ABYA who can locate and arrange a tonnage survey for part 1 registration.
More details here: http://www.abya.co.uk/information/registration.aspx
Kay Greenwood administers all tonnage queries: kay@ybdsa.co.uk
There probably won't be an approved measurer based in the Canaries, but ABYA may be able to circulate the job to their membership and one may be traveling nearby and combine it with another job.
 
Lorrendraaier said:
You could try contacting Mr. Gustavo Puga of www.nauticanarias.com. He is not a surveyor himself but is very well connected and chairman of a Spanish national association of sailboat owners. I am sure he will be able to recommend you someone.
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Thanks, will get in touch. Got one preliminary and astronomical quotation with some fancy requirements, e.g. flight with extra legroom seats :ambivalence: No wonder quotation is astronomical... business class flight tickets, 5*hotels, you name it.
 
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You can see a list of all surveyors who can carry out tonnage measurements here: https://ydsa.co.uk/registration/how-do-i-arrange-a-measurement/
Scroll to the bottom left and click on 'Find a measurer for registration' then you can search by area: UK/Europe/Rest of world
There are none in the Canaries.

If no one will travel to the Canaries at a reasonable cost, and it is essential to get the measurement & Part 1 registry, you may have to consider sailing back to mainland Europe where Tonnage measurers are available in Portugal/Cadiz/Gibraltar, or if you're headed across to the Caribbean, there is one listed in Grenada.

I hope this helps
 
Any idea if it would ok to offer to surveyor to organize his trip, e.g. buy plane tickets, make hotel/car reservations, pick up/drop off, etc. Also maybe someone knows how do they charge for a travel time and how long this survey takes?
 
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Twin said:
Yes they are, few on UK Part I. I even have copy of survey for BVI register done by surveyor from Cornwall and ORC Certificate for sister ship.
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I don't think it helps and you still need a surveyor (money for old rope). The one who did ours had already done a similar one (possibly even the same model). He made a couple of measurements in the saloon and that was it. He said he'd get other measurements from previous notes or builders, charge wasn't reduced. I notice that LOA was exactly the same as the LOA on our Bill of Sale which differed from Jeanneau's spec. by 0.5m. The dealer was either used to selling boats which would be part 1 reg. or made a typo on the Bill of Sale.

I suggested to the surveyor that he'd really just turned up to see if the boat existed and was the model I claimed. He pretty well admitted I wasn't far from the truth.
 
Mistroma said:
I don't think it helps and you still need a surveyor (money for old rope). The one who did ours had already done a similar one (possibly even the same model). He made a couple of measurements in the saloon and that was it. He said he'd get other measurements from previous notes or builders, charge wasn't reduced. I notice that LOA was exactly the same as the LOA on our Bill of Sale which differed from Jeanneau's spec. by 0.5m. The dealer was either used to selling boats which would be part 1 reg. or made a typo on the Bill of Sale.

I suggested to the surveyor that he'd really just turned up to see if the boat existed and was the model I claimed. He pretty well admitted I wasn't far from the truth.
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Thanks. So maximum it will take one hour to do this survey "properly"? Not a bad deal to get your boat smaller by 50 cm. I would be happy to get rid of 20 cm :p
 
Twin said:
Thanks. So maximum it will take one hour to do this survey "properly"? Not a bad deal to get your boat smaller by 50 cm. I would be happy to get rid of 20 cm :p
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I think that he did ask to see the Bill of Sale. I naively assumed he just wanted to confirm that we owned the boat he was looking at as it had names and HIN. I might have been better prepared if I had known in advance he was going to look at the length. A "modified" copy with 11.99m instead of 12.99m would have been a lot better than the 12.59m I currently have.

Pushing the envelope a bit though.:D
 
I found good option for 2 days (1 night) turn around: flight at 13:00 with next day return at 20:00. Any idea about non rip-off surveyor's daily or hourly travel time rate?

I would like to organize/book flight, local transportation and stay (hotel or other arrangements). The only additional costs should be surveyor's home-airport-home trip costs. But maybe some reasonable "home" costs should be deducted (some surveyors state "home" area of operation without any additional travel fee. I doubt I have to cover e.g. meals or... ?

YBDSA administration fee and the survey for vessel measured outside UK (under 15m overall) is £230.00 and payable directly to YBDSA. So no additional expenses here.
 
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