The surveyor has no right to send your survey to anybody except to you. You say "my broker". Is it your broker or is it the seller's broker? If the latter, the broker is working for the seller, not for you. A broker is simply a commissioned salesperson working for a commission on the sale of the boat. He is paid by the seller. He gets paid more if he can sell the boat to you for more. So now your surveyor has placed your document into the hands of the seller's broker which conceivably forearms the seller's broker to overcome any negative survey results. At this point I would call the surveyor and tell him I would not be paying for the survey. I would look for an independent surveyor, not the selling broker's buddy. If the "my broker" really is your broker, and is acting independently on your behalf and is being paid by you (a highly unlikely situation) then that's a different situation. I would be very leery of this broker - surveyor relationship. Remember.... The surveyor works for you. You pay him. His job is to report to you, his professional evaluation of the vessel. What you do with that information is completely up to you. Normally you would review it with the surveyor, perhaps take it to a yard to get an estimate of the dollars involved and then decide is you even want to proceed with the transaction. Then you can approach the broker with an offer (not "my broker" but the seller's broker") based upon your revised evaluation of the vessel. Good luck Joe Engel -----Original Message----- From: Dan Symula [mailto:adventuresoul@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 5:31 PM To: trawler-world-list@samurai.com Subject: TWL: survey turn around times? Im wondering if others consider their survey process an aggrevation or not. The surveyor I am working with has been promising me the copy of my survey report since monday. It wouldnt be a large ordeal, though other circumstances make it such. Its wednesday evening and after finally calling and calling he told me he sent it to my broker this morning. Whats a good average turnaround time to get a copy of your survey in your hands... not your brokers? And does this usually happen, sending to the broker and not to the one paying the tab?? Dan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/