For surveyors
What your client brings to the survey
Can I Loop? helps people buying a boat for the Great Loop work out whether she can make the trip before they pay for a survey. A buyer who has used it can bring you a short brief on the boat.
What's in the brief
- Confirm the listing's numbers. What the listing claims about the boat, laid out for you to check aboard, with a column for what you find.
- Measure for the Loop. Air draft with everything up and everything lowered, and loaded draft, against the limits that decide the trip, with a diagram of where to measure.
- Inspect on this model. This model's known trouble spots, each tagged for how sure we are and where it came from, with a checkbox and room for your findings.
- On the sea trial. The readings the buyer needs for the Loop, including the fuel burn at 7 to 8 knots, which decides her range on the longest legs.
Everything in it is something you can confirm, measure or inspect aboard. The buyer's own questions for the seller stay in the buyer's file.
How it reaches you
The buyer downloads it as a PDF, or sends you a link from their boat page. The link opens a read-only page with the same gates and questions, and a member's link carries the PDF too.
Where you come in
You see more of these boats than we ever will. If one of our model pages has something wrong, or misses a problem you find on that model time after time, tell us at support@caniloop.net. We'll fix it and log the correction on our Receipts page, with your name on it if you'd like.
And if you think it would help your clients, point them to it before they book you. Their first boat is free.
We don't sell boats and make nothing when one sells, so the brief has no reason to talk anyone into a boat.