Service catalogue.

Per job, not per mile. The quote reflects vessel size and type, distance and expected passage time, crew numbers, the season, and how much shore-side work is involved. It sets out what is included — crew, travel, victualling and berthing — and what is billed at cost, typically fuel and any berth fees along the route. Fuel is estimated up front and reconciled with receipts afterwards.

Your existing hull and machinery policy normally covers the vessel, but almost all insurers attach conditions to a delivery passage — crew qualifications and numbers, seasonal limits, cruising range and sometimes the route itself. We ask for those conditions early, plan to meet them, and confirm the crew and passage plan back to your broker in writing before departure. We carry our own liability cover as an operator; that is separate from the cover on the boat.

Two to three weeks is comfortable and lets us pick a genuine weather window. We do take shorter-notice work, and in the shoulder seasons we will sometimes have crew already moving in the right direction. What we will not do is commit to a departure date that only works if the forecast behaves — a delivery window is a range, not a promise.

We wait, or we divert into one of the sheltered ports already identified in the passage plan, and you hear about it from us straight away. Delay costs a few days; pressing on in the wrong conditions costs a boat. Go/no-go criteria are agreed before departure, so the decision is never a surprise.

No. We are based in the South of France, which is where a great deal of European yacht movement starts or ends, but we deliver anywhere in European waters — the Baltic, the North Sea, the Channel, the Atlantic coast, Iberia, the whole Mediterranean and the Adriatic. Canaries, Madeira and transatlantic passages are quoted on request.