International Yacht Surveyors and Consultants – Ward & McKenzie

Ward & McKenzie are a professional and independent yacht and marine consultancy business. We cover technical and regulatory matters and legal issues.A number of our team are accredited experts who are qualified to give expert evidence.

We have selected the very best and most experienced yacht surveyors based internationally within easy reach of your yacht to ensure we can offer the highest standards of survey and consultancy. Our support network of yacht surveyors and our experience as a well established yacht consultancy company allows us to give the yacht owner or purchaser the very best service.

Our surveyors able to deal with Yacht or Small craft surveys, under 30 metres, and Superyachts, over 30 metres.

In addition to our network of Outport surveyors we have representative offices in Palma de Mallorca and Moscow.

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Small Craft Surveys

Marine surveys and being a marine surveyor of small craft is considered to be a profession - ask any good marine surveyor. However, it is a profession that legally requires no formal qualifications. Anybody can effectively become a marine surveyor and and sometimes they do! Any purchaser must be aware of this as there are more and more marine surveyors out there who are inexperienced, some may even claim to be well qualified. This is where Ward & McKenzie can help with your marine survey. See . . .

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  • Recent News

    • CROATIA 5% VAT -05 Mar 2013

      • CROATIA 5%VAT UPDATE – Please see our News page.

    • Croatia 5% VAT01 Feb 2013

      • Our Guidelines and Budget Costings have now been prepared and can be obtained from the office. The first yacht has been imported and VAT accounted for!

    • Croatia 5% VAT18 Jan 2013

      • We are very close to publishing the rules and costings for taking advantage of this limited opportunity. An overview of the process is: Open to non Croatian individuals and companies; Boat must be registered elsewhere when she arrives for temporary importation; O% duty for EU built yachts; 5% VAT on Valuation provided by our Court [...]

    • Super Yacht Surveys

    Super yacht surveyors and surveys are part of a very specialised field which requires a different skills and knowledge set to that of smaller yacht surveys. Over the years we have gained considerable experience in dealing with all aspects of Super Yacht Ownership, such as planning Super Yacht new builds or refits, contracting with Sellers of Super Yachts, project management, technical inspections, . . .

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    Why Us

    There are many ‘yacht surveyors’ on the market, what should you the client look for and why should you choose Ward & McKenzie? Marine surveys and being a marine surveyor of small craft is considered to be a profession, ask any good marine surveyor. However, it is a profession that legally requires no formal qualifications. Anybody can effectively become a marine surveyor and anybody sometimes . . .

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