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A Marine Surveying company on the beautiful Greek Island of Lefkada. With full professional indemnity insurance and third-party liability.
Clifford Blaylock is the owner and manager of Marine Surveying. I have lived and worked in Lefkada for over ten years.
I owned a beautiful 22-meter wooded motor sailor called “Glaros” which is Greek for seagull for over 20 years. I rebuilt her and maintained her myself which taught me a lot about wooden boats. “Glaros” was British registered and used to take charter parties around the Greek Ionian Islands, but because of Brexit she was no longer allowed to work in EU waters, and I decided to sell her.
For over 40 years, I worked offshore in the Oil and Gas industry as a commercial diver. A lot of the work I did was as a hyperbaric welder, welding pipelines at the bottom of the North Sea and other places around the world. I was involved in the salvage of the century when 5 tons of Russian gold was salvaged from the shipwreck HMS Edinburgh eight hundred and fifty feet down in the Barents Sea.
First Job
I have always been around yachts and boats and when I left school in 1973, I started an apprenticeship as a fabricator welder. This was for a small company in Gosport, UK making power boat exhaust, fuel tanks, and stainless-steel fittings for yachts. I then work in an aluminium boat building factory as a welder before heading off to become a trainee diver in Norway.
International Institute of Marine Surveyors (IIMS)
Cliff is an Associate member of International Institute of Marine Surveyors (IIMS) and has passed their Professional Qualification in Yacht and Small Craft marine Surveying. He has also completed a practical yacht surveying course in Foxes Boatyard, Ipswich. A practical Wooden hull and FRP course at the Boat Building Academy, in Lyme Regis. He is continuing his professional development through the (CPD) program to maintain his knowledge base, standards, and competency levels. As part of membership, IIMS members are expected to achieve a minimum of 10 points earned over a one-year period from 1st January to 31st December each year. Cliff strives every year to earn the CPD-compliant roundel logo on his IIMS website listing.
