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I am thinking of hiring a delivery skipper to move our P45 round to south coast in the next few weeks. Any one got any recommendations or tips for what i should look for?

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Someone with some good qualifications and experience.
PM me and I will happily send some contacts for you of people we use commercially and that can be trusted to do a good job.
 
good idea

will give princess a call.

only have a rough plan at the moment..would probably be at the end of july but want to leave final plan until we get a better view of the weather for that period.
 
martin said:
will give princess a call.

only have a rough plan at the moment..would probably be at the end of july but want to leave final plan until we get a better view of the weather for that period.
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Take her yourself... Why buy a boat that is a great cruiser and then not cruise on her?

If she is on the UK coast it's not as if any of it is too tricky.
 
Nautibusiness said:
Take her yourself... Why buy a boat that is a great cruiser and then not cruise on her?

If she is on the UK coast it's not as if any of it is too tricky.
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I can understand some reluctance to do the longer trips - however - as Solitare asked "do you want to come along for the ride?"

Seems like best of both worlds - you get a pro skipper to take charge - they have the knowledge and experience ..
you come along for the ride - and get to experience the trip - realise that it isn't as tricky as all that (in the right conditions) and next time you can either take charge with a pro crew or even just take it yourself.

Of course, it could just be a lack of time/holiday/inclination to do the longer trips - hence a delivery to where you want the boat .... :)
 
fireball said:
Of course, it could just be a lack of time/holiday/inclination to do the longer trips - hence a delivery to where you want the boat .... :)
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If that is the case though it would probably be cheaper to simply stick her on a low loader. If not cheaper, a lot less hours on the engines.

But we still don't know where her home port is so that is all assumption.
 
Cant see the point of employing someone and then "going along yourself for the ride"
It isn't rocket science
The difficult bit is the begining and the end - if you have the ability of doing the cruise when you get there, you can do the whole thing yourself.

Now - if you havn't got the time - thats different.
And getting the boat there to maximise your cruising makes sense.

But, as I say, "going along for the ride" on your own boat doesnt make sense.
 
Hurricane said:
Cant see the point of employing someone and then "going along yourself for the ride"
It isn't rocket science
The difficult bit is the begining and the end - if you have the ability of doing the cruise when you get there, you can do the whole thing yourself.

Now - if you havn't got the time - thats different.
And getting the boat there to maximise your cruising makes sense.

But, as I say, "going along for the ride" on your own boat doesnt make sense.
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You'd be amazed at the number of people that do "come along for the ride" because they have never really done that sort of trip before. I recently took a client across channel and then another one to Brighton. Why? Because they did not have the confidence to do it on their own.
 
Nautibusiness said:
If that is the case though it would probably be cheaper to simply stick her on a low loader. If not cheaper, a lot less hours on the engines.

But we still don't know where her home port is so that is all assumption.
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Cant see that putting a P45 on a low loader will be cheaper when you take into account the lift out and back in and removing arch etc and the transport costs.
 
If you do employ a delivery skipper and you are not on board for the trip, make sure you inform your insurance company as your policy will probably not cover use of the boat without the policyholder being on board. They will want details of the skipper's professional qualifications and any indemnity insurance. My advice would be to get their confirmation in writing just to be sure as delivery skippers have been known to get it wrong.
By the way, there's nothing wrong with getting a delivery skipper to deliver your boat to a different cruising area. I've done it a few times myself even though I have many years boating experience. If you've got limited holiday time, you don't want to waste it sitting in your home marina waiting for a weather window; much better to maximise your cruising time by having your boat where you want it at the start of your holiday period
 
Hurricane said:
Cant see the point of employing someone and then "going along yourself for the ride"
It isn't rocket science
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No - it isn't rocket science ... but I can understand the reluctance.
Quite a number of sail skippers have a 'delivery crew' who do the longer trips so SWMBO's can just do the bits they want - ok Delivery Crews are normally made up of friends/relatives who want to sail ..

Confidence is the other one ... a large boat can be a handful to manage when it goes wrong - so having a pro onboard (or even in charge) can be a bonus.

My first channel crossing (non-ferry!) - I went with Galadriel - so I knew what it was like ...
My second trip (other than the return journey) - I took my brother who can sail and another chap who was an experienced skipper (and came with lifefraft!)
I was then happy that I knew what was going on and how I'd feel (sea sick!) - and that I could cope with just SWMBO and myself.
 
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Hi there,

Thanks for all the posts...Deleted User thats exactly what i needed, I had forgotten about the insurance angle, will get onto it.

The reason i want it moved is due to time. I work for myself so I get very little time off and the last thing i need is to kick off the holiday by sitting waiting for weather to change and a long drag round the coast..

I have now previously covered most of the southern UK coast from Dartmouth to the Thames and then from the Thames up to Ipswich and farest north yet the up the river Deben. But this has all been done over many years and generally in bursts of 1-2 hours followed by a long lunch and a snooze..:-)

I love cruising but dont really enjoy more than a couple of hours a day otherwise it becomes hard work for me and the family tend to get a bit bored..So if we do decide to go I would get the P moved down there and save the back breaking start to the hol. Also, we will drive down there in the car all together so if we do get bad weather, we can explore inland rather than sitting the marina going slowly mad!

So all round it makes a lot of sense for us...trust me, we will be cruising each day for a few weeks, and may even take her back to the Thames ourselves.

Thanks for all your PM's will be in touch :-)
 
Martin,

As has been said already, many insurance companies shy away from "delivery skippers" - there are many out there who no doubt have much experience but perhaps aren't aware of the risk they're taking not only with other peoples' boats but also their own liability. There have been a couple of high profile cases recently such as two lifeboat crewmembers sinking a fairline or sunseeker in the Needles and the vessel's insurers suing them for the value - at least one of these guys lost their home in the settlement.

I'm not trying to scaremonger, but for your own peace of mind, use a company which has full insurance in place, and this means hull cover, not just skipper's personal indemnity. I can recommend a few; if you'd like more details then please PM me.
 
fireball said:
IPC IT Dept - please TURN OFF THE MOBILE SITE for the ybw unusable forums.
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This is massive thread drift, sorry, but I just noticed Fireballs signature, with which I wholeheartedly agree. Maybe we should _all_ post this message on the spot the boat thread, which Jack and Richard definitely read...

Cheers
Jimmy
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
This is massive thread drift, sorry, but I just noticed Fireballs signature, with which I wholeheartedly agree. Maybe we should _all_ post this message on the spot the boat thread, which Jack and Richard definitely read...

Cheers
Jimmy
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Trust me I am more than aware of it.......

It went to the top yesterday and its clearly taking some time to get back to little old me at the bottom...
 
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