The flagship
Yacht delivery
Repositioning sail and power yachts between ports over the water, using the vessel’s own hull and propulsion — with or without owners aboard.
Yacht delivery →
Yacht delivery · Relief captain · Hands-on training
We move your boaton its own bottom.
Year-round yacht delivery along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the Intracoastal, the inland rivers, the Great Loop, Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Sail or power, with or without owners aboard — navigated by a licensed 200-ton master and a professional crew.
Most estimates go back out within 24 hours.
200Ton USCG master license
29Documented deliveries
17Marine certifications held
365Days a year — no season
What we do
Boats moved, owners taught, watches stood.
The flagship is delivery. Everything else grew out of it — because the owner who just bought the boat usually needs to learn her, and the insurer usually wants that in writing.
On your own boat
Hands-on training
Boat handling, navigation, anchoring and systems — taught aboard your own vessel, in your own water, by the captain and a deckhand.
Hands-on training →Underwriter sign-off
Insurance check rides
The documented evaluation your insurer asks for before a policy activates — conducted and signed off by a licensed USCG master.
Insurance check rides →Owner-assisted passages
Relief captain
A professional aboard for your own passage — so you keep the helm and the trip, and someone experienced has the watch when it matters.
Relief captain →By the day
Captain for hire
A licensed master for the day — deliveries, sea trials, new-owner orientation, or an extra pair of experienced hands when you need them.
Captain for hire →Dealers and buyers
Sea trials
A professional captain aboard for a prospective buyer’s sea trial — an independent read on how the boat actually runs.
Sea trials →How it works
How a delivery gets booked
Four steps, and no obligation until the deposit.
- 01
Send the vessel and the route
The delivery form takes about five minutes. It captures what is needed to chart the passage — length, draft, air draft, honest cruising speed, departure and destination.
- 02
The captain reviews it personally
Within 24 hours. Not a dispatch desk, not a form response — the person who will be aboard reads what you sent.
- 03
The route gets charted and timed
Optimal course allowing for safety, distance, water depth and bridge clearances, and a day count built from your vessel’s actual speed.
- 04
You get an estimate by email
No obligation. Once a deposit is received, the estimate becomes the contract and your dates are held on the calendar.
Know what you are buying
Delivery, transport, shipping — three different things.
These get used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable. Only one of them involves your boat running under her own power.
What we do
Yacht delivery
Your vessel moves under its own power, crewed by a captain and deckhands — coastlines, the Intracoastal, canals, inland rivers, offshore passages.
A different trade
Yacht transport
The boat is hauled over the road on a trailer behind a truck. Different insurer, different license, and it never touches water. Required above 8.5 ft of beam or 13.6 ft of height.
A different trade
Yacht shipping
Your boat rides on a bigger boat. You may still need a captain standing by to pilot the vessel into the loading area when called.
Who is on the helm
A licensed master, not a broker’s dispatch desk.
You talk to the captain who will be aboard. I plan the route, watch the weather, commission the crew, and answer the phone when something needs deciding at two in the morning off Cape Fear. Problems arise on deliveries — that is the job — and they get solved rather than escalated.
Based in Central Florida, with intimate knowledge of Florida’s 1,300 miles of coastline, every navigable inlet, the Keys, and the Okeechobee Waterway across the peninsula.
I have never quit a delivery. Yacht delivery sounds romantic; it is long demanding days, weather that does not cooperate, and boats that were never designed for comfort. I know what I am signing up for.
The log
29 deliveries, and counting.
Sea Rays up the Mississippi, catamarans across the Straits, a 75-foot houseboat taken out into the Gulf. The log is not exhaustive — it is what got photographed.
56 ft Sea Ray
Clearwater, FL → Chicago, IL
Princess 75
St. Augustine, FL → New Bern, NC
Tayana 55
Annapolis, MD → Port Canaveral, FL
Grafton Steel Trawler 47
City Island, Bronx, NY → Fort Lauderdale, FL
Waters we know by name
Some passages need more than a chart.
Locks with their own hours, a lift bridge that decides whether your mast fits, a current that turns a pleasant crossing into a bad one. These are the routes owners ask about specifically.
The Great Loop
A 6,000-mile circuit of America’s eastern waterways. Wherever you are on it, we can come to you.
Bahamas crossings
Florida to the islands and back — the Gulf Stream, the weather window, and the customs paperwork on both ends.
Okeechobee Waterway
The 154-mile canal route straight across Florida — five locks, and an air draft limit that decides everything.
Inland rivers
The Mississippi system and its tributaries — currents, tows, locks and very few fuel stops.
Gulf crossing, Florida’s Big Bend
The open-water shortcut across Florida’s Big Bend — and the one leg where you are properly offshore.
Florida
1,300 miles of coastline, every navigable inlet, and the state 90% of deliveries touch.
Where we go
31 regions, from Maine to the Rio Grande and out to the islands.
The Atlantic seaboard, the Gulf, every navigable inland river from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, the Bahamas, the Caribbean and Canada. A large share of our clients are new buyers moving a freshly purchased vessel to her home port — often from a state they have never boated in.
Ninety percent of all vessel relocations start in Florida, end in Florida, or pass through it.
Start here
Tell me about the boat and the route.
Every estimate starts with the delivery form. It takes about five minutes, and the more accurate your vessel’s speed and specs, the closer the estimate lands.
We do not share, rent or sell your information. Data is collected only to produce the estimate you asked for.
