INTRODUCING
A NEW TOOL FOR THE OLD SCHOOL
Based in the sunshine state of Florida, second generation marine surveyor, Craig Norton, is the President of InspectX. A SAMS® Accredited Marine Surveyor, RYA 200 ton Yachtmaster Offshore and MCA Y3 Chief Engineer, he decided he was fed up of duplicating his work when writing his reports, collecting the evidence in the field only to come home to have to make sense of his scribbled notes so he could write his report. His thought process led him to search for a solution so that a report could be generated whilst doing the survey to save those many hours in front of a laptop once home. The result is InspectX, a programme designed for surveyors by surveyors.
50 | The Report • March 2019 • Issue 87
BY CRAIG NORTON
It is 2019 and we are living in the technological future we could only have imagined 20 years ago. As marine surveyors we are fortunate to have such a large selection of advanced tools readily available, all of which can significantly improve the quality and scope of our inspections. We have advanced methods of non-destructive testing such as thermography, moisture meters, ultrasonic testing and lab analysis, yet when conducting a survey inspection, we still take handwritten field notes on paper just the way we did decades ago. The tedious task of taking handwritten notes and duplicating the effort by transcribing these notes into a legible document in the office is accepted as the unfortunate norm.
InspectX will change that forever. It is the first and only marine report writing software specifically designed to complete an entire survey report on a touchscreen tablet while in the field. It is aptly
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