Matt Green of Green Marine Surveys is a fully qualified Marine engineer & Marine surveyor with an impressive CV and over 25 years’ experience. Holding full professional indemnity and public liability insurance. Specialising in motor, sport boat and yacht surveys for both the commercial and leisure industry Offering well priced surveys throughout Wales and the South West. Frequently covering Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, Bath, Bristol Channel, Pembroke and Milford Haven.
What you can expect:
The purchase procedure and future running of your boat should be a pleasant one with no hidden surprises! Our job at Green Marine surveys is to keep it that way. We like to consider our service as both personal and professional. Reports are clearly written and of course are always at the end of an email or phone should you wish to chat through anything.
Pre Purchase Survey:
Also known as a Full Condition Survey, is carried out by the purchaser and its purpose is to establish the overall condition of the vessel in terms of defects, wear and tear, maintenance, quality of build and to identify and assess any significant past repairs, damage or other factors in the structure or systems affecting the integrity, safety or seaworthiness of the vessel. We combine best practice surveying techniques with the latest electronic non destructive testing aids.
Insurance Survey:
Most UK insurers will state that any vessel over a certain age, normally 20 years old, will require an insurance survey to be conducted on a periodic basis.
Owners may feel that their vessel is sound, well maintained and seaworthy and that the insurance survey is an unnecessary expense. However, it is often the case that an insurance survey will uncover one or more defects that the owner was not aware of.
An insurance survey inspects the structure and the vessel’s safety systems such as the gas and the fire fighting systems and others.
Initial Inspection:
About Green Marine Surveys
Might be conducted for a client/ purchaser to assess if the vessel is a potential purchase option and therefore worth instructing a full Pre-Purchase Survey. The inspection will be less detailed than a full survey. This can be useful to a purchaser and can be conducted on multiple vessels to ascertain the best of any shortlist compiled.
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Matthew Green, owner and Marine Surveyor of Green Marine Surveys Ltd.
Aims to provide excellent personal service with good quality surveys with clearly written and concise reports at a reasonable cost.
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A qualified Yacht and Small Craft Surveyor. Member of the International Institute of Marine Surveying (IIMS), the Society of consulting marine engineers and ship surveyors (SCMS), holding Incorporated engineer (IEng) status.
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I attended the Royal Hospital School naval college, Ipswich Suffolk as a border from the age of 11. At 16 I joined the Navy as a Junior Marine engineering Mechanic. Serving eight years working in the demanding environment on various ships and small craft. A year of my service was spent at the Royal Navy powerboat school in Torpoint, Plymouth. After leaving the Navy I worked as an engineer on a 150ft Superyacht ‘Perfect Persuasion’ at the time a top ten charter yacht working worldwide. On my return to the UK I worked for a number of years in various boatyards before starting and running my own successful Marine engineering yard & workshops in South Wales eventually selling up in 2012 to take a Technical Superintendent and delivery engineers’ position for Specialised Vessel Services who were originally one of my customers! In 2019 Green Marine Surveys was incorporated and has been successfully operating ever since in both the Commercial and small craft sectors.
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My professional qualifications and experience in the marine sector, combined with my personal ownership and love for boats, means that I am likely to be the ideal surveyor for your needs.
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