Delivery Captain from San Diego to Seattle

[Celestialsailor]

Originally Posted by Compass Rose

We're considering buying a boat in San Diego and hiring a delivery captain to bring it up to Seattle. We've trucked a boat in the past but never hired a delivery captain and have no idea how to go about finding a dependable, reputable one.

Does anyone know of a delivery captain you would recommend? Any input about how to find a good one? I'm sure there are some good ones out there and some not so good ones.

The other option is to have the boat trucked north, but I'm thinking that would be more expensive and more of a hassle.

I'd appreciate any referrals, suggestions or other input anyone has.

Actually, the person to talk to on this forum would be "Rebel Heart". He knows the know...

[Compass Rose]

Good point about the tsunami debris. That's frightening. Trucking is sounding like a better option at this point.

[MyYachtCaptain]

Hi... Saw your post about getting your boat up to Seattle. Several things come into play when you are thinking about boat delivery. First thought is WHAT TYPE OF VESSEL IS IT AND WHAT SIZE IS IT? (Some boats are just too big to want to break down, haul out and put on a truck whereas some are simply too small to try and run uphill to Seattle from San Diego)
WHAT TIME OF THE YEAR DO YOU WANT TO TAKE IT?
WHAT KIND OF CONDITION IS IT IN (INCLUDING NAV GEAR)?
WHO SHOULD TAKE IT?

My suggestion to find excellent delivery captains would be to look at the Master Captains on www.YachtCaptainsForHire.com and read about several San Diego and beyond captains and the services they offer.

If you have other concerns, fell free to drop me another line and I'll try and help.

Sincerely,
Captain Eric Lamb

[Captain Jeffry]

I am a USCG licensed 100 Ton Master with over 105,000 documented international sea miles. I am particularly familiar with the entire West Coast US to Seattle, Baja and Mainland Mexico, I have many Trans Pacifc crossings both directions, Santa Barbara to Auckland New Zealand, ICW, Grenada to Ensenada via the Canal, Auckland to Bora Bora. Miami to Cascais Portugal via Bermuda and Azores Islands.

Delivered a Catalina 38 from Long Beach to Seattle August, 2011

Cheers,

Jeffry Matzdorff

[webejammin]

We bought our Gemini 105Mc in San Diago but it was in Nov before it was a done deal and ready to leave for our trip north to the Columbia river so we arranged her to be trucked to Portland Or for about the same as hiring a captian to take her but the weather window is not good untill July and August and we didn't want to waite that many months.

We are planning a costal trip to the San Juan islands up the coast of WA and are planning doing day crusing only to keep an eye on floatsome the last of July and back to the Columbia river in August. The heavier floatsome will be on our coast in 2013 and 2014 the experts say.

[Captain Jeffry]

Excellent! Have great adventures!

Jeffry