Yacht delivery Co's and Engines?

[sailaboutvic]

May or June not winter, just thinking ahead.. thanks for the good wishes. I don't see it as a big deal, was just asking about Delivery people in case I couldn't find anyone.. but that's looking unlikely :encouragement:

If you don't have any luck with a delivery company and you need crew , look on crew seeker site maybe a better way of going about it .
The other place there is a FB site for sailing and cruising around the UK , you might find someone there interested .

Only mention winter as it was written in one of the posting by the way must of miss read it .

 

[Kukri]

Agree with Sailaboutvic. I made the same mistake thinking you were planning to do the trip at this time of year. My mention of sea breezes may seem odd for this trip but it’s when you are close to land that you don’t want to be becalmed.

 

[prv]

look on crew seeker site maybe a better way of going about it .
The other place there is a FB site for sailing and cruising around the UK , you might find someone there interested .

Exactly. The mention of a delivery company has set a lot of people, understandably, off on the wrong track. This is a search for crew, not a yacht-delivery contractor.

Pete

 

[LadyInBed]

Exactly. The mention of a delivery company has set a lot of people, understandably, off on the wrong track. This is a search for crew, not a yacht-delivery contractor.

Pete

and at a different time of year.

 

[lw395]

Well good luck with the trip, I am sure it will be a blast.
I have told my engineless story before on here so please bear with me:

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" I'd met Geoff before but only to nod to. Remote boatyards are the preferred roost of older gents with wooden boats so nothing unusual about that, but I did recognise his boat as a Harrison Butler as I have a copy of Cruising Yachts. I had overwintered next door to him in the yard and we chatted. In fact, had we looked up, we could see Cremyll where his boat, Watermaiden, was built in 1939.

He was very impressed with the ragged collection of old Triumph motorcycles that I often arrived on and I passed him some information about early gearboxes that interested him. He told me he had 2 stoke Velocettes, of the 1930's vintage, at his home in the North East
He was having some engine trouble and I commiserated with him and said, with carefully restrained pride, that I had once sailed singlehanded from France without engine after some mishap. He was very interested and said he had to do similar himself and return home without an engine.
His view was:
“They are not much use at sea anyway and I was really lucky, the Plymouth Harbourmaster gave me a tow in, and at the start some fishermen towed me out. So it all went very well.”
We chatted on for a time then, as we parted, I asked:
“By the way Geoff, where did you get stuck without the engine?”

“Miami” he replied!


The last time I saw him he gave me tea on board. The boat was under cover and he was laying up for the longest time, there seemed an air of finality about it.

“You never know” I said, and he smiled kindly. "

Good stories.
I've done a bit of 'engineless'.
And a bit of delivery with a dodgy engine.

The problem with no engine is getting in and out of port.
And anywhere with dense traffic.
I went past Dover in light headwinds with a dodgy engine once. I'm in no rush to do that again.

Crossing the North Sea at your leisure, picking a good forecast, with perhaps some flexibility of where you end up, what's not to like?

 

[Ladybirdgaffcutter]

and at a different time of year.

Is that a different time of year to the time of year which I didn't mention in the OP?

 

[sailaboutvic]

Is that a different time of year to the time of year which I didn't mention in the OP?

I think someone guess you be moving the boat early and everyone else run with it ,
but don't let it thread drift you or you may lost out on any good suggestion ,

 

[Ladybirdgaffcutter]

I think someone guess you be moving the boat early and everyone else run with it ,
but don't let it thread drift you or you may lost out on any good suggestion ,

Well said and thanks

 

[LadyInBed]

Is that a different time of year to the time of year which I didn't mention in the OP?

True, but your OP did give the inference that you were looking for a delivery skipper, which suggested (to me) that the passage would be imminent.

 

[Ladybirdgaffcutter]

True, but your OP did give the inference that you were looking for a delivery skipper, which suggested (to me) that the passage would be imminent.

I apologise wholeheartedly for the misunderstanding.