Paul Stevens has been a yacht and small craft surveyor for many years. He is a member of the YDSA, and his course is the only practical surveying course endorsed by them. It attracts delegates worldwide.

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.

"Paul Stevens' book ...is clear, concise, methodical and comprehensive... this book is an excellent tool. I can thoroughly recommend it."

'The highly practical approach of this book will be invaluable to students of surveying, qualified surveyors and yacht and boat owners everywhere.'

'invaluable'

'excellent and very comprehensive...Unbelievably detailed.'

'excellent and very comprehensive...Unbelievably detailed.'

'The journey is a kaleidoscope of history, Canadian and American; of ever-changing scenery and an introduction to some well-known, and some out of the way places; of weather foul and fair. [...] It all makes for a very good read.'

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.