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Old 01-31-2012, 07:12 PM   #11
RickB
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City: Fort Lauderdale
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RE: Battery Wire

If the buyer's surveyor decides to rewrite the rulebook there is no reason for you to fear your insurance company. If the buyer gets a snit about an item described by an incompetent surveyor as not meeting some "standard" then simply ask the buyer to have his "surveyor" show him the rule that your boat does not meet. It really is that simple. Your insurance company is not involved in a third party survey report, and you don't have to jump through home made hoops to satisfy a non existent "requirement."

If your surveyor tells you that your boat doesn't meet some standard, simply ask him to show you that standard. If the guy can't, then terminate the survey and pay him for the time he has spent. You don't need to deal with incompetent surveyors. If you somehow miss something that makes it to your insurance company and you know that the survey is wrong, (and as an owner you should either know or know where to find out) point that out in writing and reference the standards that actually apply.

You might think this is "tilting at windmills" and maybe you have thousands to throw away on incompetent surveyors makiing up rules that your insurance company blindly follows, but I don't think having some idiot throw my money away is not worth bothering with.

As a boat owner who pays the bills, you have a right to getting what you pay for from surveyors and contractors. You wouldn't let a yard waste your money on the wrong parts or other products, would you? Why so cavalier about a so called surveyor sticking it up your stern?

And for Heaven's sake, don't perpetuate the myths by posting warnings about stuff like that. After a while people begin to believe it is true ... even surveyors.
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