Surveying yachts and small craft / by Paul Stevens.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Stevens, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Boats and boating--Inspection--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Yachts--Inspection--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p. ) col. ill.

Place of Publication:

London : Adlard Coles Nautical, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This definitive practical handbook will prove essential to yacht and boat owners who want to check out defects on a boat they own or are planning to buy, as well as students of surveying and practicing surveyors. This is the only book linked to a practical surveying course. Highly practical in nature, and packed with detailed close-up photography, step by step procedures, and helpful checklists, this definitive handbook will prove a godsend to small craft owners who want to check out defects on their own boats or on boats they are planning to buy, as well as practicing surveyors and surveying students. Featuring surveying bodies, equipment required, assessing defects (including moisture-related defects, and the use of moisture meters) and their severity, the book guides the reader through conducting a thorough inspection, from keel to topsides, coachroof, stern gear, rigging and much more. The highly practical approach of this book will be invaluable to students of surveying, qualified surveyors and yacht and boat owners everywhere.

Contents:

• Cover
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• List of abbreviations
• 1. MANDATORY STANDARDS, SURVEYING BODIES AND TERMINOLOGY
• What standards apply to the type of craft we are most likely to encounter?
• Recreational Craft Directive (RCD)
• The Boat Safety Scheme (BSS)
• Maritime and Coastguard Agency of Practice
• SOLAS regulations for pleasure vessels
• Do we survey to these standards?
• If we are not surveying to any particular common standard, where do we start?
• Who regulates this industry?
• Associations, institutes and professional bodies operating in the field
• Terminology you will come across in the description of pleasure craft
• 2. GOING EQUIPPED TO SURVEY
• What tools will we need?
• Recording information
• What next?
• What are we trying to achieve in the report?
• 3. BASIC FRP CONSTRUCTION AND COMMON DEFECTS
• 1. The material
• 2. Hull building methods found in FRP production small craft
• Heavy solid FRP layup with chopped strand matt
• Solid FRP layup with additional reinforcing integral with the shell moulding
• Solid FRP layup with structural frames and stringers integral with inner mouldings bonded to the shell moulding
• Part sandwich construction
• 3. Deck and superstructure building methods found in FRP production small craft
• Solid FRP layup with moulded beam reinforcing
• FRP sandwich construction with foam or end grain balsa core between two layers of solid FRP
• FRP sandwich construction overlaid with teak
• 4. Ballast keels and associated reinforcing
• Encapsulated keels
• Bolted on keels
• 4. MOISTURE RELATED DEFECTS: RECOGNITION AND DETECTION
• Basic definitions
• Aeration of the gelcoat
• Wicking
• Osmotic blistering
• What means of detection do we have?
• Visual examination
• Scraping away antifouling
• Moisture readings
• 5. THE USE AND ABUSE OF MOISTURE METERS.
• Using moisture meters below the waterline
• The Sovereign Quantum moisture meter
• Original Tramex and Sovereign moisture meters
• Using moisture meters to detect moisture in FRP sandwich structures
• Others uses for moisture meters in the FRP survey process
• THE SURVEY INSPECTION IN MANAGEABLE STAGES
• 6. INSPECTION SECTIONS 1-9: TYPE AND STRUCTURE
• 1. Details of subject vessel
• 2. Keel
• 3. Hull below waterline
• 4. Topsides above waterline
• 5. Deck moulding
• 6. Coachroof
• 7. Cockpit
• 8. Hull/deck join
• 9. Bulkheads and structural stiffening including internal mouldings
• 7. INSPECTION SECTIONS 10-13: STEERING, STERN GEAR, SKIN AND FITTINGS ETC
• 10. Rudder and steering
• 11. Stern gear
• 12. Cathodic protection
• 13. Skin fittings and other through hull apertures
• 8. INSPECTION SECTIONS 14-20: ON DECK
• 14. Main companionway and other accesses to accommodation
• 15. Ports, windows etc
• 16. Pulpit, stanchions, pushpit, lifelines and jackstays
• 17. Rigging attachment points
• 18. Ground tackle and mooring arrangements
• 19. Other deck gear and fittings
• 20. Davits and boarding ladders
• 9. INSPECTION SECTIONS 21-24: RIG
• 21. Spars
• 22. Standing rigging
• 23. Running rigging
• 24. Sails and covers etc
• 10. INSPECTION SECTIONS 25-30: SAFETY
• 25. Navigation lights
• 26. Bilge pumping arrangements
• 27. Firefighting equipment
• 28. Lifesaving and emergency equipment
• 29. Engine and installation
• 30. Fuel system
• 11. INSPECTION SECTIONS 31-37: ACCOMMODATION AND ON BOARD SYSTEMS
• 31. Accommodation, general
• 32. Gas installation
• 33. Fresh water tanks and delivery
• 34. Heads
• 35. Electrical installation
• 36. Electronic and navigation equipment
• 37. Heating and refrigeration
• 12. SURVEY REPORTS
• Types of survey
• Report writing in detail
• The pre-purchase survey in detail.
• Survey contract
• Report layout
• Recording of information
• Report content
• Report style
• Report composition
• Sample report
• Conclusions and recommendations
• Maintenance overview
• List of recommendations
• Conclusions
• Valuation
• INDEX.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4081-4622-3

OCLC:

928192185