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From: Arild Jensen (no email)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 15:10:04 EDT
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From: svserenity
All these jury rigs in a boats electrical system aren't going to
make it past a competent surveyor anyway, and let's
face it, most of us use insurance companies that
require periodic surveys.
REPLY
Therein lies a major fallacy.
The surveyors who typically perform this service for insurance companies are
rarely electrical experts.
For recreational boats they often rely on the verbatim descriptions contained
in such voluntary standards as the ABYC document.
I have seen commercial vessels built by reputable yards and subjected to
periodic coast Guard inspections and re certifications.
In many of these boats they use equipment and workmanship practices that run
counter to what is written in ABYC standards.
Yet they continue to get passed and recertified by the Coast Guard.
So who is right?
Finding a "competent" electrical surveyor is much more difficult than finding
an approved surveyor who is acceptable to the insurance company.
Consequently the fact an approved insurance company surveyor passed something
may or may not mean anything relative to this discussion on circuit breakers.
Regards
Arild
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