SURVEY TIPS

on August 15, 2018

Make Sure The Boat Is Prepared If you are asking a surveyor to come to your boat to perform an insurance survey, make sure that the surveyor has access. Don’t expect him or her to empty out lockers of heavy anchors, bags of sails, and boxes of spare parts. The surveyor needs to look at the mechanical parts of the boat, and it causes delays to have to move tons of stuff out of the […]

AVOIDING THE FRIES

on August 8, 2018

Based on article from Boat US Marine Insurance To the untrained eye, there’s not much wrong with this alternator connection. You might notice that there’s too much conductor showing between the connection lug and the insulation, but that’s about it. Looking closer, though, things start to get complicated. Instead of using properly crimped connections between the lug and the conductor (blue arrow), whoever made up the cable used a soldered connection. It looks like the […]

BATTERY BASICS

on August 1, 2018

Marine Battery Maintenance Based on an a article by Mark Corke According to TowBoatUS, one in 10 calls for help is due to a dead battery or other electrical issues. Look after your battery, and it will serve you when you need it. If a boat’s wiring is the lifeblood of your boat’s DC electrical system, then the battery is its heart, and your boat needs a healthy heart. But unlike the battery in your […]

ROY SCOTT MARINE SURVEYORS OF FLORIDA

on July 25, 2018

Welcome to my Blog!! This is my initial post on my new Florida web site. I hope to highlight some insightful stories, personal experiences, and frankly STUFF we all should be concerned and engaged about. Who Am I? I am a Marine Surveyor, an NCAA Wrestling Official, a Husband, a Father, and a Cool Guy!  (at least I think so) I am a Graduate of The US Coast Guard Academy and Dowling College and I’ve been in […]