Chandlery shipping service

[Dave99]

I'm considering offering a chandlery service where we will keep records of vessels and equipment and source spares in the event of failiure/breakdown and send them straight to your boat wherever you are in the world. Would anyone be interested in a service like this. As a regular service, carriage costs would obviously be reduced. We would source the best prices on the owners behalf.

 

[trouville]

It is interesting, but the UK is ofter the most expensive chandlery.

As for shipping the prices vary widely, This spring as i had to ship from the UK i was happy to be given the address of a first class shipper at the lowest rates i will ask pragmatist again as my link was lost when my laptop crashed.

There exists already such a chandlery,they have a huge stock use phone fax email or skype !!!and ship to where you are they are:
http://www.jgtech.com/index.htm

 

[TigaWave]

Yacht parts in Plymouth were offering something similar where you gave them a list of every motor/pump/gadget/winch/cooker/toilet etc on the boat they would then source the manuals and parts lists for each item and keep it on file, so you just e-mail something like "new forward shower pump seal please" and you get the right bit for your particular pump. Sounded like a good service, but in the end I was in a hurry to leave and didn't get around to giving them a list.

 

[Sea Devil]

The only problem I can see is that West Marine really offer just that - most cruising boats carry a west marine catalogue. After I was robbed by pirates in the gulf of aden I got into Djubiti - looked up all the items to replace - ssb, vhf, binoculars etc and emailed West Marine and had them 7 days later at prices lower than UK.... Suspect that is the catch 22 with your idea...

regards

Michael