mattnj
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I had a fixed price £2800 (inc flights) from Solent to NW Spain...if that helps (gives you rough idea)...obviously your trip is further.
Yacht Delivery
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alant
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As are many others.
wizzer
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In October 2017 I travelled to Turku, Finland to view a Channel Island 32 motor boat, with a view to buying. Upon my return to the UK, my deliberations of course included getting her home to Falmouth.
I did my own cost assessments of getting her brought home on transport or motoring her home. My conclusions were that there are obvious benefits of both methods, whilst the costs could work out to be similar in both cases. Having arrived at the conclusion that the costs could be comparative, this then gave me a figure which would represent the true cost of the vessel upon arrival at Falmouth, thereby giving me a price to offer for the boat.
My further considerations included the fact that it would very soon be impractical to move the boat by sea as the conditions in the Baltic and the North Sea would not be too kind. So, I had to agree terms for storage ashore in Finland over winter. Once these terms were agreed, the price was fine tuned and agreed followi]ng a couple of emails.
I then paid for her in full.
During the winter, whist the Baltic remained frozen to a depth of 600mm or more, I furthered my enquiries to a number of transport companies.
During early 2018 I received an offer from one company for a “back load” on a proper road going rig, all the way to Falmouth marina. As this was to be a “back load”, the cost was considerably less than it would have been for a company to send a lorry out empty to collect my boat. The deal was based on the fact that the transport company were to pick up a yacht at Southampton and deliver it to Sweden, then they would continue on to Finland and collect my boat, for return to Falmouth.
I contacted the marina in Finland to be told that they would need to get in a crane to do the loading. I asked why the yard boat lift could not do the job, only to be told that it would not operate in in two feet of snow at minus 16 degrees Celsius. So, a contract lift was arranged.
On the day the yacht was to be collected from Southampton, I was to pay the transport fee, by BACS. I set up the payment and was about to make it when I received a call from the transport company, telling me that their lorry had arrived to collect the yacht at Southampton only to be told by the marina that they would not be allowing the loading as the prospective purchaser had not paid up. That was the end of that particular avenue. I was not out of pocket, but the transport guys had lost out as they had sent the lorry to collect and had paid the ferry fee in advance. I managed to cancel the crane in Finland without incurring costs.
So, as the winter wore on, I continued to look at all the alternatives.
In December 2017, I had attended the funeral of the wife of one of my good friends. A very sad occasion for my friend when his wife was taken much too early in life by the dreaded Big C.
It was during the wake that I mentioned to my friend my new boat, which was awaiting me in Finland. He was immediately interested in coming with me to bring her home by sea.
In May this year, 2 retired lifeboat coxswains departed Newlyn and St Ives in Cornwall, bound for Satava Marina, near Turku in Finland armed with a well considered outline passage plan for the repatriation of “Perla”.........................
I did my own cost assessments of getting her brought home on transport or motoring her home. My conclusions were that there are obvious benefits of both methods, whilst the costs could work out to be similar in both cases. Having arrived at the conclusion that the costs could be comparative, this then gave me a figure which would represent the true cost of the vessel upon arrival at Falmouth, thereby giving me a price to offer for the boat.
My further considerations included the fact that it would very soon be impractical to move the boat by sea as the conditions in the Baltic and the North Sea would not be too kind. So, I had to agree terms for storage ashore in Finland over winter. Once these terms were agreed, the price was fine tuned and agreed followi]ng a couple of emails.
I then paid for her in full.
During the winter, whist the Baltic remained frozen to a depth of 600mm or more, I furthered my enquiries to a number of transport companies.
During early 2018 I received an offer from one company for a “back load” on a proper road going rig, all the way to Falmouth marina. As this was to be a “back load”, the cost was considerably less than it would have been for a company to send a lorry out empty to collect my boat. The deal was based on the fact that the transport company were to pick up a yacht at Southampton and deliver it to Sweden, then they would continue on to Finland and collect my boat, for return to Falmouth.
I contacted the marina in Finland to be told that they would need to get in a crane to do the loading. I asked why the yard boat lift could not do the job, only to be told that it would not operate in in two feet of snow at minus 16 degrees Celsius. So, a contract lift was arranged.
On the day the yacht was to be collected from Southampton, I was to pay the transport fee, by BACS. I set up the payment and was about to make it when I received a call from the transport company, telling me that their lorry had arrived to collect the yacht at Southampton only to be told by the marina that they would not be allowing the loading as the prospective purchaser had not paid up. That was the end of that particular avenue. I was not out of pocket, but the transport guys had lost out as they had sent the lorry to collect and had paid the ferry fee in advance. I managed to cancel the crane in Finland without incurring costs.
So, as the winter wore on, I continued to look at all the alternatives.
In December 2017, I had attended the funeral of the wife of one of my good friends. A very sad occasion for my friend when his wife was taken much too early in life by the dreaded Big C.
It was during the wake that I mentioned to my friend my new boat, which was awaiting me in Finland. He was immediately interested in coming with me to bring her home by sea.
In May this year, 2 retired lifeboat coxswains departed Newlyn and St Ives in Cornwall, bound for Satava Marina, near Turku in Finland armed with a well considered outline passage plan for the repatriation of “Perla”.........................
matthewriches
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Wizzer also aided the delivery of my vessel a while ago. It was a nice journey with some nice marinas on the way but with a few hairy moments for a novice boat owner!
