The log

29 boats, and where they went.

Not an exhaustive list — it is what got photographed, and it is not in chronological order. Sea trials and single-day captain jobs are limited to central and south Florida; everything else travelled.

A flybridge motor yacht underway in warm haze, with a ship on the horizon

24Deliveries

2Sea trials

3Captain for hire

14States and countries

Delivery
56 ft Sea Ray
Clearwater, FL → Chicago, IL
Up the inland rivers against the current — a Great Loop leg run the hard way.
Delivery
50 ft Chris Craft
St. Paul / Minneapolis, MN → Guntersville, AL
Upper Mississippi, Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, end to end.
Delivery
Lagoon 620
Private residence, FL → Port of Palm Beach
A 62-foot catamaran moved for a point-of-sale handover.
Delivery
Tayana 55
Annapolis, MD → Port Canaveral, FL
Down the Chesapeake and offshore in the Atlantic.
Delivery
Silverton 42
Seabrook, TX → Riviera Beach, FL
Across the Gulf in the aftermath of a hurricane season.
Delivery
Beneteau Oceanis 41
Jacksonville, FL → Treasure Cay, Bahamas
An offshore crossing to the Abacos.
Delivery
Northern Bay 38
Marsh Harbour, Bahamas → Beaufort, SC
Single-engine trawler, back across the Stream and up the coast.
Delivery
Princess 75
St. Augustine, FL → New Bern, NC
A 75-footer worked up the ICW and the Atlantic.
Delivery
Grafton Steel Trawler 47
City Island, Bronx, NY → Fort Lauderdale, FL
ICW, the Chesapeake and offshore — the full length of the East Coast.
Delivery
Maxim 380 Catamaran
Apalachicola, FL → St. Petersburg, FL
Twin diesels with auxiliary sail, across the Big Bend.
Delivery
Bali 5.4
Fort Lauderdale, FL → Savannah, GA
28-foot beam, with owner training included along the way.
Delivery
Bayliner 37 Command Bridge
Stuart, FL → Fort Myers, FL
About 154 miles straight across the state on the Okeechobee Waterway.
Delivery
Bertram 36 Sportfish
Pompano Beach, FL → Carrabelle, FL
Roughly 400 nautical miles around the peninsula and up the Gulf coast.
Delivery
Hatteras 53 Sportfish
Wrightsville Beach, NC → Jacksonville, FL
Down the ICW with the owner aboard, training as we went.
Delivery
70 ft Fairmont Trawler
Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, Atlantic ICW
A ballast problem developed en route and was managed to the destination.
Captain for hire
Cecil Norris Staysail Ketch, 60 ft
St. Petersburg, FL → Fort Myers, FL
Relief captain work for a repeat customer.
Captain for hire
Designated captain
Tampa, FL
Designated-driver captain service for the Gasparilla Pirate Festival.
Delivery
Sea Ray 500 Sundeck
Long Island, NY → Fort Lauderdale, FL
About 1,400 miles on twin 650 HP Detroit Diesels.
Sea trial
Watkins 36
Apollo Beach, FL
Sea trial run on behalf of a yacht broker.
Delivery
President Trawler 41
Burlington, NJ → Fort Myers, FL, then on to Deltona, FL
Two legs: down the coast, then back across on the Okeechobee and up the St. Johns.
Delivery
Pacific Seacraft 34
St. Johns Island, SC → Annapolis, MD
600 miles of Atlantic, ICW and Chesapeake.
Delivery
Carver 325
Charlotte Harbor, FL → Placida Harbor, FL
A 32-foot twin-gas cabin cruiser, moved locally.
Delivery
Lagoon 38
Brunswick, GA → Portsmouth, VA
About 700 miles in a twin-diesel sailing catamaran.
Delivery
Lagoon 57
Fort Lauderdale, FL → Tarpon Springs, FL
57 feet on a 30-foot beam, routed south through the Florida Straits.
Delivery
Cabo Rico 38
Okeechobee Waterway → St. Johns River
316 miles, cutter-rigged, on a 45 hp Westerbeke.
Delivery
75 ft Lakeside Houseboat
North Suwannee River, FL → Old Port Tampa, FL
Twin Volvo Penta I/O, taken out into the Gulf — not what a houseboat is built for.
Delivery
F-41 Ferrier
St. Augustine, FL → Newport News, VA
A sailing catamaran on twin Nanni diesels.
Captain for hire
38 ft Edgewater Center Console
St. Maarten, Dutch Caribbean
Captain-for-hire work on triple 300 hp Yamaha outboards.
Sea trial
26 ft Trophy
Tampa area, FL
Sea trial on a single MerCruiser I/O.