​Interesting side issue to a failed survey. 
 for readers who might be SELLING a boat.   This applies only under brokerage where participants are deemed
to be qualified professionals 
capable of delivering expert opinions. 
​
A potential owner
​or a member of the public
is deemed at law
to be incapable
​of delivering an expert opinion. 

​This clause matters with the Titanic,
which went down in 11,000' of water
but it also applies to canal boats
​which might not have 2" of free water under them at times. 

​The broker is now under notice,
by the actual survey and marine law,
that the boat is not seaworthy 
and this fact must henceforth be declared.
Before that the broker could
​(and would) stay mum
​and be legally entitled to. 
​
As of that moment,
it is boat unsailable and unsaleable
because the hole so hammered
might cause it to sink in the water
and would certainly suggest
​that the wetted hull was seriously fragile. 
​

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