In the June edition of the Report Magazine, Jeffrey Casciani-Wood submitted a letter to the editor and invited Karen Brain to give a comment on the following, when he wrote: ‘Perhaps the most common of the errors that I have seen over the years is the use of so-called reported dimensions, not measured ones. I should point out that the marine surveyor’s report is a legal document and therefore requires content that he/she has measured, weighed, tested, or examined, whatever, not what he/she has been told by a third party who may, or may not, have given him/her valid and correct information. Reported dimensions are hearsay and, as such, are not admissible in Court, except under very special circumstances.
The precise definitions of the principal dimensions of a boat up to 24 metres in length are given in the publicly available document ISO8666, a copy of which should be in every small craft marine surveyor’s library. I would like to see Karen Brain’s comments on this paragraph’. Jeffrey Casciani-Wood Continue reading “Karen Brain responds to Jeffrey Casciani-Wood about the use of reported dimensions in reports”
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