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Originally Posted by sailingfool
Even if you paid the surveyor for the survey, you are SOL. I trust the survey report is filled with the usual caveats resolving the surveyor of any consequences for errors or oversights...
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This is not quite correct. I won't offer any legal advice here except to say that there is recourse here if and only if you contracted for the survey, regardless of what stipulations may be contained therein. If the typical claims made in most surveys effectively limited a surveyor's liability as is implied above, there would be no need for surevyors to uniformly carry E&O (Errors and Omissions) liability insurance which they do for this precise reason.
The real uncertainty here is whether or not you contracted for the survey and the value of the boat which would limit liability in most states (to that amount).