Resources
Boat and Marine Survey Guides
For boat owners, buyers and marine surveyors.
Defect of the Week: Cutless Bearings
How to inspect sterngear at haul-out: reading play at the propeller, measuring the cutless bearing, and grading the seal, shaft and rudder.
Offer Agreed: From Survey to Keys
Your offer is agreed, subject to survey. What happens next, in order, from choosing a surveyor to the keys. For yachts, motor boats and narrowboats.
Southampton Boat Show 2026: The New Fleet
A walk round Southampton International Boat Show 2026, and what the new fleet adds to a survey: pod drives, outboard transoms and cored hulls.
What Makes a Survey Report Defensible
A report holds up when every sentence traces back to the day. How condition survey report software carries the record, and what the surveyor signs.
Narrowboat BSS vs Pre-Purchase Survey
A BSS certificate proves basic safety compliance, not structural condition. A narrowboat purchase still needs a separate pre-purchase survey.
Defect of the Week: Battery and Shore Power
'Electrics in working order' is not a finding. What a marine electrical survey records about battery fusing, RCD protection, and the earth path.
