Delivery costs from Corfu to UK South Coast

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Hi,

I am toying with the idea of buying a boat in Corfu and having her delivered to the UK for me. I won't have time in the immediate future to undertake an extended trip myself so I wondered if anyone here could give me a finger in the air idea of the costs in having this done by a delivery skipper / crew ?

Many thanks,

Boo2
 
What kind of boat? Its roughly 3000 sea miles around the outside. I have had figures ranging from about £4000 upwards for an 39' AWB sail. Time ranges from 5-6 weeks pushing hard to 8 weeks taking it easy or longer going via the French canals. £5k to ship overland Venice to Amsterdam. £17000 ( yes 17k ) to put it on deck of a freighter in Athens and get it to Soton.

Has an arrangement with a forumite to do it for next to nothing since he was at a loose end and it suited his plans, right up to about a month before due to set off when he dropped off the face of the planet :confused: :(

Any forumites looking for a summer cruise, Greece to the UK at your own pace:)
 
nimbusgb said:
Any forumites looking for a summer cruise, Greece to the UK at your own pace:)
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Sounds a great idea but what about the legal liability and insurance. Borrowing a boat from a mate for no payment is not a problem and if you are a professional delivery skipper you have the insurance in place. But an arrangement like this is somewhere in the middle.

Any ideas?
 
davidej said:
Sounds a great idea but what about the legal liability and insurance. Borrowing a boat from a mate for no payment is not a problem and if you are a professional delivery skipper you have the insurance in place. But an arrangement like this is somewhere in the middle.

Any ideas?
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Seems to have worked for others on the forum. Recently another Oceanis 390 was bought back transatlantic on this type of arrangement. Get the insurance co to accept the skipper on the policy.
 
nimbusgb said:
. . . Any forumites looking for a summer cruise, Greece to the UK at your own pace:)
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I feel like repeating the famous line that Steve McQueen used in the Magnificent Seven when Yul Brynner was looking for someone to assist getting a coffin up to the cemetery:

Oh hell, I'll do it . . . . . I never rode shotgun on a hearse before..."
 
Quick call

A 2 minute call to this lot will give you a ball park figure...

http://www.direct-yachts.com/

Boo2 said:
Hi,

I am toying with the idea of buying a boat in Corfu and having her delivered to the UK for me. I won't have time in the immediate future to undertake an extended trip myself so I wondered if anyone here could give me a finger in the air idea of the costs in having this done by a delivery skipper / crew ?

Many thanks,

Boo2
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Boo2 said:
Hi,

I am toying with the idea of buying a boat in Corfu and having her delivered to the UK for me. I won't have time in the immediate future to undertake an extended trip myself so I wondered if anyone here could give me a finger in the air idea of the costs in having this done by a delivery skipper / crew ?

Many thanks,

Boo2
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I found this site, www.shiply.com you post the details of what you want moving and suitable companies make a bid, to do the job, you don't have to accept any of the prices. I recently received bids to move my boat to Plymouth they ranged from £500 to £800 three by road and one by sea.
 
nimbusgb said:
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Seems to have worked for others on the forum. Recently another Oceanis 390 was bought back transatlantic on this type of arrangement. Get the insurance co to accept the skipper on the policy.
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When I bought my boat in Scotland, part of the deal was to have the ex owner deliver it to Pwllheli. I enquired of the insurance peeps about the position reference ins. They said no prob. He had a day skipper qualification, they were happy (GJW) and the job was done.
Stu
 
Boo2 said:
Hi,

I am toying with the idea of buying a boat in Corfu and having her delivered to the UK for me. I won't have time in the immediate future to undertake an extended trip myself so I wondered if anyone here could give me a finger in the air idea of the costs in having this done by a delivery skipper / crew ?

Many thanks,

Boo2
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What boat is it?

I do deliveries & you will be inundated with offers, but this is an unknown vessel to you, particularly in terms of likelyhood of gear failures on a fairly long trip back to UK, regardless of what survey or previous owner states, so would suggest considering overland from nearest northern shore, before subjecting it to a longish trip to Gibraltar & up across Biscay.

Unless of course you want the experience.
 
nimbusgb said:
What kind of boat? Its roughly 3000 sea miles around the outside. I have had figures ranging from about £4000 upwards for an 39' AWB sail. Time ranges from 5-6 weeks pushing hard to 8 weeks taking it easy or longer going via the French canals. £5k to ship overland Venice to Amsterdam. £17000 ( yes 17k ) to put it on deck of a freighter in Athens and get it to Soton.

Has an arrangement with a forumite to do it for next to nothing since he was at a loose end and it suited his plans, right up to about a month before due to set off when he dropped off the face of the planet :confused: :(

Any forumites looking for a summer cruise, Greece to the UK at your own pace:)
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So why would you give up that free summer cruise, yourself, and on your own new boat to boot? It's kind of like hiring someone cheap to spend your wedding night with your new wife. Makes no sense to me. I would go to any lengths, to figure out how to get the time off to do it myself.
 
Thanks to all for the responses. The ballpark figure I was after seems to be around or above £4,500 which is too steep for me so I will either buy a different boat or do what Dockhead and others suggest :

Dockhead said:
So why would you give up that free summer cruise, yourself, and on your own new boat to boot? It's kind of like hiring someone cheap to spend your wedding night with your new wife. Makes no sense to me. I would go to any lengths, to figure out how to get the time off to do it myself.
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Well, a free summer cruise from the Med via Biscay to the UK would be very fine, but I am a software contractor and if I don't work I don't get paid. The job is paying for the boat so no workee, no boatee...

Of course I could leave her in the Med this year and snatch long weekends then bring her back after the contract ends. Yep, that might be it :-)

Thanks again for the replies,

Boo2
 
Dockhead said:
So why would you give up that free summer cruise, yourself, and on your own new boat to boot? It's kind of like hiring someone cheap to spend your wedding night with your new wife. Makes no sense to me. I would go to any lengths, to figure out how to get the time off to do it myself.
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Mixing up two posters here :) I could take all my leave and move the boat say 4 weeks but the family is not into long passage making. They want the 'holiday' type holiday. 4 weeks would leave me 1/2 to 2/3 of the way back looking for a mooring in expensive territory!
 
Unless the boat is truly unique or an unbelievable bargain (and, if so, why?) surely it'd be more sensible to buy the equivalent in N. Europe and not subject it to a few thousand miles of wear and tear before you even put your hand on the tiller.

Of course, if you're planning to keep it in the Med that's a bucket of fish of a different hue.
 
The main problem is that flights are very expensive if they're not return to and from the same airport (OFG and I had this problem getting the previous boat back from Cyprus).
However, unless you have a super-yacht, the south of France is very cheap because a boat less than 60' is not worth charging much for.
 
Mrs FG said:
However, unless you have a super-yacht, the south of France is very cheap because a boat less than 60' is not worth charging much for.
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Is that true ? How much does it cost to keep a 33 foot yacht in the cheaper end of South of France marinas ?

Also, as a matter of interest, are the marinas on the Moroccan / North African coast any cheaper than the rest of the Med ? Or aren't there enough of them to make it a viable cruising area ?


Boo2
 
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