Pre-Purchase Survey on this Gibsea 96

Back on the Greek Island of Samos this week, and a Yacht Survey for Pre-Purchase on this French built 1986 Gibsea 96 Sloop. Designed to eat up the miles shorthanded, and built by Gilbert Marine (FRA), and designed by Joubert-Nivelt. In common with other Gib’seas of the time, fittings are lightweight. She is light and easy to handle and a good family coastal cruiser.

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Insurance Survey on this Beneteau 57 centre cockpit

We are back at the peaceful little Agmar boat yard on the North of the island of Leros for the next few days Surveying this Yacht for Insurance and Valuation.

Designed by Bruce Farr, this center-cockpit passage-maker has genuinely raised the bar for production builders as it combines a hull form that allows for luxurious accommodations and yet one that offers surprising performance. 

The construction is in line with Beneteau's other big boats, featuring a solid hull and balsa-cored deck. The hull also includes a balsa rib band for stiffening. A massive hull liner that is bonded and laminated to the hull provides structural integrity. I have never been overly fond of hull liners, especially in big boats, but the tooling of this liner, which is essentially a hull within a hull, demonstrates Beneteau's commitment to the 57. 

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Marine Survey for Insurance on this shpountz 38/40

I was carrying out an Insurance Survey and Valuation on this stunning Schooner today in Samos, Greece. She is a shpountz 38/40  built in France in 1999. 12.9 meters on deck. Cold moulded Iroko hull insuring very little maintenance.  

She is one of approximately 45 built and was designed by Daniel Bombigherun.  Constructed from monoblock moulded Iroko wood hull on strong laminated frames. 

Another interesting Schooner in for some planking...

An old Hillyard Yacht lost in Greece. (and up for SALE). Most 'Hillyarders' are based in the UK, and Ireland, but a good number cruise their yachts from the coast of Europe, North America, also Australia!

Local Greek Fishing Boat...

Typical Gaffer with seriously raked masts! 

By the way: "SHPOUNTZ" is an old gypsy word meaning the village idiot. Not the one we make fun of but the one who knows the secrets of the winds, the springs and the flowers!

This from a french television showing how the builder commissioned her!

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30 metre Dutch Motor Yacht for Insurance Survey

Time for the Insurance Survey on 'Ras' this week at D-Marin ship yard in Turkey. This was just the underwater inspection before she returns home to Samos Marina where we will complete the system surveys. 

'Ras' was built in 1985 by Dutch shipyard De Hoop, in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, to a design by De Vries Lentsch. She was lengthened in 1999 from 28 metres to 30 meters. Her original name was Vagasto, and she later became Poncho IV. 

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