Marine Surveyor in Wilmington, North Carolina

I perform several surveys a week in Wilmington. Pre-purchase, insurance and damage surveys, power and sail. Your report is in your hands the next day, not next week.

I work out of the yards here regularly, including Anchors Away, Bellhart, MarineMax Wrightsville Beach and Cherry Grove, so if your boat is going into one of those I already know the place.

Buying from out of state

A lot of the buyers I work for in Wilmington are not in Wilmington. They are in Ohio, or Florida, or Virginia, looking at a boat they have seen in photographs, and what they need is somebody at the boat’s end who will tell them what is there and tell them when.

Somebody arranges the haulout, and it is not you. If there is a broker on the deal, the broker handles it. That is their job and they are good at it. If it is a private sale with no broker, you have nobody local acting for you, so I will help you line it up: which yard, when, and how the trial run fits around it. You should not be ringing boatyards from seven hundred miles away.

You do not have to fly in. Plenty of buyers do and it is worth it if you can. If you cannot, the report is written to stand on its own, and I will go through it with you on the phone.

What happens when you call

You get me on the phone. Not a call center and not a form that routes somewhere. Tell me the boat, where it is lying, and what the survey is for.

I give you a price and a date on that call. Because I am in Wilmington most weeks, the date is usually sooner than people expect. If I cannot get there when you need me, I will say so then rather than after you have made plans around it.

I come to the boat and survey it. You are welcome to be there, and plenty of people are. If you cannot make it, the survey happens anyway and the report does the explaining.

You get the report the next day. Written so that somebody who was not standing on the boat can understand what I found and decide what to do about it. If you want to walk through it on the phone afterwards, call me.

The report goes to you. Not to the broker, not to the seller, not to the yard. If you want anyone else to see it, you send it to them. You are the one paying for it and you are the one who decides who reads it.

If you would rather see one before you commit to anything, here is a survey report I have done.

The surveys

Pre-purchase survey. The full inspection, for a buyer deciding whether to go ahead and at what price. Structure, systems, electrical, propulsion, steering, safety equipment.

Insurance and condition-and-value survey. For an underwriter deciding whether to write or renew a policy, or for a lender. If you are up against a renewal deadline, say so when you call. That is a scheduling problem and it is usually one I can solve.

Damage survey. After an incident, documenting what happened and what it will take to put right.

Appraisal. Where a value has to be established and defended.

Credentials

ABYC Master Advisor, with ABYC certifications in Electrical, Systems and Standards. NFPA member. Chapman School trained. SAMS Surveyor Associate. I inspect to ABYC standards, USCG federal regulations and NFPA 302.

Book a Wilmington survey

Call or email with the boat, where it is lying, and what the survey is for. You will get a price and a date on that call.

Report in your hands the next day. 919-820-9257 · andrew@marinesurveync.com

Still deciding? Read a real survey report first.