International Yacht Surveyors and Consultants – Ward and McKenzie

Ward & McKenzie are a professional and independent yacht and marine consultancy business. We cover technical and regulatory matters and legal issues.

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.

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Marine 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 and McKenzie can help with your marine survey. See . . .

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  • Recent News

    • AMELS 177 Limited Edition22 Feb 2010

      • Ward & McKenzie are very pleased to announce the successful launch of Amels 171 Limited Edition series, Hull number 456. This vessel is in fact an extended 171 and should be described as the first of the 177 series! Ward & Mckenzie have been the project managers of this build from inception to delivery, [...]

    • Lake Windermere – total losses18 Dec 2009

      • We have just concluded a settlement with insurers on behalf of a client for the total loss of his motor yacht that was submerged during the recent heavy rainfall in Cumbria. But only after the underwriters had tried to persuade their assured to accept a much lower figure based on a very disingenuous interpretation [...]

    • Successful insurance claim10 Dec 2009

      • After one year, we are pleased to be able to report, that we have successfully persuaded UK underwriters to pay, in full, on an insurance claim that arose when a brand new 20 metre Italian motor yacht, worth c. € 2 million, was stolen from it’s delivery berth.

    • 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 Ward and McKenzie?

    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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