Doing a boat survey prior to selling your boat is important. The survey helps determine the condition and value of your boat in relative to standard criteria and gives the boat owner a boat-survey certificate which can be very useful in providing credibility to the maintenance and condition of your boat. The service of a marine survey is offered by many companies. Such company details are readily available over the internet. Here are a few basic aspects of a boat survey.

Why survey

The main utility of a survey before selling a boat is to gain more credibility for your boat. The marine survey certificate is important for insurance claims and for gaining the buyer’s trust. Trust is an important aspect of any business deal and a marine survey certificate gives credibility to the buyer’s trust on your deal.

Also a survey is important because there are many standard conventions that are not usually known. For example, not many owners know that the ignition components and the power lines of the boat should be specifically made with an ignition protected material. A surveyor can bring to your notice such many unknown facts about your own boat. Knowing of such facts are extremely important because then you can prepare and maintain your boat in the ‘right’ way.

A boat insurer also gives immense value to a boat survey. An insurer mainly looks whether the boat in consideration meets the required specifications of standard boat-organizations or not.

Time and charges

The complete process of a boat survey usually requires 7 days to be fully complete. The charges of a survey are fixed per foot of the boat. The charges are different for personal boats and commercial boats. Generally the charges for a commercial boat survey are more than the personal boats. The price range per foot of the survey is usually 10.00$ to 19.00$. The price range varies as per the extent of survey service offered by the surveyor.