You Should Deliver Yachts

gCaptain ^ | March 31, 2019 | CW4 MICHAEL W. CARR

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[fishtank]

I would LOVE to know who the “owner” is in this story....

Any guesses???

[cuban leaf]

My brother pays the captain of his boat a nice six figure income.

[ClearCase_guy]

Delivering yachts isn’t so bad.
Delivering owners is heck of a way to make money. I wouldn’t do it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Cool. Must be nice having Jeff Bezos for your brother!

[fishtank]

Love your tagline!!!!!!!!!

[fishtank]

[old-ager]

> Jeff Bezos for your brother

ug. I’ll keep mine

[cuban leaf]

He’s rich, but not that rich. ;)

[Psalm 73]

Interesting story. But the trouble with you Americans is....

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Why didn’t he tell the owner to fly down, and find a crewman for the rest of the trip.

[SkyPilot]

Delivering yachts is all good, until you get put on a crew with alcoholics and nut jobs. Google “The Sinking of the Trashman.”

[Doogle]

....had an uncle who did just that delivered yatchs....from Boston to the Caribbean at the beginning of the season and back at the end...airfare back and forth when not sailing and a fireman when home.
Made headlines once when he and his mate got caught buy a quick moving storm off the Carolinas...got rescued by an Irish freighter...went to Ireland and flew back home...happened back in the 80’s

[outofsalt]

"It was the day after Thanksgiving."

Leaving Maine for Bermuda, this is the second best time of year. If you leave much past June you are in hurricane season. The only thing worse than a snowy nor'easter is a cat 1(-5). The delivery skipper should have checked the tanks and the guys that writes the checks are usually @!*$. Furthermore, I would have wanted a third person for an offshore delivery in late fall.

[Doogle]

...or it might have been early 90’

[umgud]

My bro bought a really big boat, 48 foot, with sails and a motor, in Frisco and had to hire a crew to move it to San Diego.

You need some kind of license to drive one of these?

[fishtank]

info info info

https://www.dco.uscg.mil/nmc/merchant_mariner_credential/

http://wow.uscgaux.info/content.php?unit=054-09&category=captains-license-info

https://www.marinerslearningsystem.com/uscg-captains-license-courses

[Alice in Wonderland]

Maybe they should have brought the boat south on land before putting it in water.

[wardaddy]

The problem with you Americans is you don’t know how to pour a beer.

Lol....I wish it really was just that

Seems to me the Captain was a mite sensitive the whole trip

Or maybe he wasn’t being paid enough to put up with it

It’s rare for an owner to accompany the boat on transit to vacay spots

Usually owners just lounge aboard at harbor in south of France or Caribbean and day sail maybe at most

Plus I’d want 2-3 crew to deliver a sloop from Maine to Bermuda in winter

For weather beatdowns

If owner was a real sailor he’d have been captain and needed crew instead of Vice versa

If he’d hugged USA east coastline to nagshead that’s 1500 miles from Buzzard bay MA

weeks sail more or less

[umgud]

Thanks