Oct 16, 2023 | The Musings of a Marine Surveyor
The International Union of Marine Insurance recently published ‘Best practice & recommendations for the safe carriage of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in which they assess the data regarding carriage of EVs and the challenges posed by electric vehicle fires to...
Sep 15, 2023 | Boat Maintenance
A safe LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) installation on a boat is most often a simple installation with several built in safety features. The best way to assess any system is to follow the LPG pathway from cylinder to appliance. The PDF file below contains some simple...
Dec 7, 2022 | Marine Surveying
What tools do you actually need to inspect a boat? Well, that depends on how deeply you want to understand the boat’s construction, its condition and what your relationship is with the boat. Inspecting any boat can be done with the minimum of tools and a few...
Feb 9, 2021 | Narrowboat Maintenance
One of the great joys (please take this in the most subjective manner you can) in surveying boats is the wide range of corrosion mechanisms and their effects on the variety of metals on offer to the attentive marine surveyor. Finding, identifying and reporting on...
Jul 26, 2020 | Boat Maintenance
Sacrificial anodes are something every boat owner should be aware of, yet not every boat owner will need them. The principle is quite simple; the material that your boat is made of and the environment in which you keep it has the propensity to cause serious metal loss...
