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Old 12-27-2012, 06:34 PM   #37
Marin
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Originally Posted by Steve View Post
Apologies to any surveyors out there but I would not use a surveyor recommended by a seller.
There may be instances when a particular surveyor has established such a good reputation that everyone in the area connected with boats knows this. There are two such surveyors in the Puget Sound area that I know of. In this case I would not hesitate to use either one of them even if they were recommended by a seller's broker.

Of course you have to do the homework to find out that these surveyors are, in fact, as good as everyone says they are (or already know it from prior experience). In the case of the two I know of in this area they are recommended by many PNW GB owners on the GB forum as well as by many local yards and individual owners, including us now that we've used one of them.

So if there is one or more of these guys around in your area it can make the task of finding an objective surveyor who knows boats backwards and forwards much easier.
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