Yacht Surveys - A Christmas Competition.

[doug748]

These two videos were pointed out by BurnitBlue in the other place. They show a yacht surveyor at his trade:

And part two:

Father Christmas will deliver a virtual bottle of the finest malt to the winner who spots most errors and half truths.

 

[awol]

Wonder how much he charges?

 

[IanR]

This is not a survey. It is an opinionated bystander wittering on, certainly not an intelligent assessment

 

[mainsail1]

Well that made me yawn. I am afraid I did not make it to the end of part 2.

 

[MM5AHO]

Part 1
- Only checked cutless bearing for play in one direction.
- Assumes engine misalignment from worn cutless bearing (there are other possibilities)
- Blisters in hull caused by "either epoxy or someone didn't do a good job". Eh? caused by epoxy?
- Suggests they blast whole hull and start again!
- Replace all seacocks and through-hulls based on one bad one.
- "The significance of cast iron (in the hull) is that there's nothing wrong with it". eh? that's the significance?
Part 2
-"you don't want to have snatch blocks". He might not want them but how does he know that his customer doesn't want them?
- "Starving stainless of oxygen makes it brittle"
- Need to rebed all topside fittings coz they've never been done.
- "We're not trying to make a new boat of an old one" (isn't he?)
- "Replace the genoa cars" (why?)
- "All this stuff should be replaced because its the original" (that's not a good reason to replace anything!)
- "you need a windlass"
- "get your windlass from where I get a cut from it" (a beauty that one!)
- confusion on preheat of engine when starting it
- "Get a twin forestay and get rid of that furler"
- "all furlers fail"
- He calls them "Ewes guys"
- Calls the mainsail slides "hanks"

There's more than this though.

 

[awol]

Geoff, you need to get out more.

 

[Laysula]

Is that the guy from the boatyard doing the survey, drumming up a Christmas bonus.

 

[doug748]

It's my personal theory that he arrived at the yard to rod the drains, got mistaken for a yacht surveyor and just ran with the idea.

 

[fastjedi]

He needs a survey on the fly of his jeans that's for sure

Oh … and the prospect owner appears very cheery considering the surveyor is recommending the whole boat is replaced!

 

[AndrewB]

Oh … and the prospect owner appears very cheery considering the surveyor is recommending the whole boat is replaced!

Of course. A survey like that is worth its weight, in persuading the seller to knock a goodly chunk off the price.

I just love an over-critical surveyor. The tricky bit is to get him to write a report that is sufficiently convincing to persuade the seller to drop the price; without being too over-specific so that when you have bought, the insurers insist you undertake costly remedial work.

 

[dombuckley]

Wonder how much he charges?

In an earlier video, they mention $1500-2000 (£1200-1500) as the average price for a survey, including haul-out.

 

[pagoda]

I've seen survey done like that. Focusing on irrelevant things, condemning various things on whims. Missing out on some functional stuff? Then producing a written report stuffed with as many caveats at possible and little substance (and perhaps a 50% cut &paste). I have seen a straight professional survey done as well - a world of difference.