I can recommend Paul Anstey for surveys in Florida. He lives mid state but goes everywhere. He is NAMS. He's been doing this longer than just about everyone. Brokers say he kills deals so some won;t recommend him. That's a good thing if you ask me. He kept me from losing $40k.
Paul will climb the mast for a sailboat survey, to inspect the rigging. I have yet to find another surveyor who will do that. The others just say you can hire a rigging surveyor (for another $500).
Paul is extremely knowledgable, very nice, very reasonbly priced, and not afraid to call the boat ugly if he thinks it is.
Don't trust the brokers, even if you like them. They still just want to sell their overpriced boats for as much as they can. Alot of surveyors bow to the brokers' pressure when it comes to not breaking deals. Surveyors can lose business becaue brokers won;t put them on their "recommended list" for the customers too lazy to do their own research. As a buyer, I always want the surveyor that the Brokers don;t like.