Yacht Delivery Blog
We hope you find our Yacht Delivery Blog both informative and entertaining. Customer testimonials are attached to almost all of our passages!
Thumbs Up Yacht Deliveries UK – Owner Assisted Passage, Essex to Sardinia
Ziffius is a 39ft Bavaria Cruiser, now owned by Pete Williams. A commercial pilot who was interested in getting to know his boat and also taking her down to the Mediterranean. Here he could begin his exploration of the many cruising ground on offer. What he needed was...
Thumbs Up Yacht Deliveries UK – 37ft Hanse Hamble to Fambridge
37ft Hanse ‘Hullabaloo’ from Hamble to Fambridge, Essex – Thumbs Up Yacht Deliveries UK This short hop from The Hamble to Fambridge in Essex was an excellent but challenging trip. DELIVERY STATS: Distance: 250nm. Duration: 32 hrs. No. of hours with engine on: 2hrs....
Thumbs Up Yacht Delivery – Salcombe to Fambridge
Yacht Delivery of Moody 333 ‘Blue Octopus’ from Salcombe, Devon to North Fambridge, Essex The proud new owners are the Sinclair Brothers, Ian and Stuart. Being very happy with their new purchase they decided to get Thumbs Up to deliver her to North Fambridge in Essex....
Yacht Delivery Scotland – Classic Yacht -Inverness to Ijmuiden, Netherlands
Thumbs Up Classic Yacht Delivery of Georgiana K – 40′ Atkin Errin Cutter After a challenging, but well handled delivery, Glen, his crew and Georgiana are all safely home. The North Sea can be a hostile place in winter but this didn’t put them off. They dealt with...
Thumbs Up Yacht Delivery – 60ft Gaff Schooner
Yacht Delivery of ‘Whydah of Bristol’ 60ft Gaff Schooner . We’ve just completed a fantastic delivery for John and Di Edwards.They needed their beautiful Gaff Schooner returned to her home port of Bristol from Brest. Whydah is commercially...
Yacht Delivery – Lefkas, Greece to Hamble, UK – Moody 42 ‘Alchemy’
Arriving in Lefkas on the 4th August with first mate Lisa Cain we meet up with owners Roger and Dianne Perry who welcomed us with a very good lunch a sign of things to come for the great food we had along the whole delivery despite some challenging cooking conditions....
Thumbs Up Yacht Delivery Cannes to Barcelona S&S Classic Yacht Delivery
Cannes to Barcelona S&S Classic Yacht Delivery This was a beautiful 60ft S&S classic yacht called Argyll. A yacht delivery across the Gulfe du Lione is never straightforward. Especially when delivering a yacht as beautiful and tender as this. All the necessary...
Thumbs Up Yacht Delivery – Mahon to Sicily Elan 45 Owner Assisted
Mahon to Trapani, Sicily via Sardinia Yacht Delivery Back home, after a thoughroughly enjoyable yacht delivery, it was an “owner assist passage” delivery for Tony and Deborah Gourlay. I met them and their newly purchased Elan 434 Impression in the beautiful capital of...
Beneteau 43 Yacht Delivery from Split, Croatia to Lekas, Greece
Yacht Delivery of ‘Double Scotch’ 43 foot Beneteau Our flight to Zagreb was delayed so we missed our connection to Split, only arriving in Split on the next available flight at around 10pm. We took a taxi from the airport to Marina Agana, arriving at the boat 10.30pm....
Yacht Delivery Dufour 36 Classic Tollesbury, Essex to Falmouth, Cornwall
I had the pleasure of delivering a well maintained and looked after Dufour 36 Classic. Myself and my crew member Philippe van Eisjden arrived onto S/Y Samara on a Sunday afternoon, ready for an early morning High Water departure. After a quick but thorough handover...
Thumbs Up Yacht Delivery UK – Contessa 32 Lymington to Torpoint Plymouth
Yacht deliveries UK- Lymington to Torpoint Plymouth A big thumbs up to skipper George cox and Anthony for the safe delivery of a contessa 32 to Plymouth. Thumbs up had the call to deliver this yacht last minute and luckily one of our principle skippers George was free...
Madeira to The Hamble 35ft Jeanneau Yacht Delivery
After a ‘failed’ transat delivery by another company the 35ft Jeanneau “Olympe” was left in Madeira. The Thumbs Up Sailing Yacht Delivery Team took over and oversaw installation and sea trialling of the new engine. We’re unsure of exactly what went on in the prior...