Yacht Transport Options Worldwide
While trying to work out the best option for your boat and crew during the current health emergency, yacht transport may be one option to consider. Yacht transport companies continue to operate around the world.
Published 4 years ago
While trying to work out the best option for your boat and crew during the current health emergency, yacht transport may be one option to consider. Yacht transport companies continue to operate around the world, many with delivery crew to load and discharge your boat, getting it to the closest marina, so you don’t have to worry in your absence. Insurance should also be available through the transport company covering deliveries to and from marinas.
It’s important to note however that it’s unlikely the yacht transport company can get permission for you to move your yacht to another country for loading while borders are closed, therefore yacht shipping will only be an option for yachts already in departure countries.
Sevenstar Yacht Transport (SYT), Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT) and Peters and May have provided Noonsite with details of their up-and-coming sailings from the Caribbean, Pacific and Asia (see below).
Sailing schedules from the Caribbean with SYT include:
MV SCHIPPERSGRACHT
St Thomas, USVI: April 25 – May 5, 2020
St John’s, ATG: April 25 – May 5, 2020
Palm Beach, FL: May 1 – 10, 2020
Freeport, BHS: May 5 –15, 2020
Newport, RI, USA
Southampton, UK
IJmuiden / or any other Dutch port
MV SUOMIGRACHT
Le Marin, Martinique: April 25 – May 10, 2020
Southampton, UK
Brest, France
IJmuiden / or any other Dutch port
MV PIETERSGRACHT
St. Thomas, USVI: April 25 – May 07, 2020
Golfito, Costa Rica
La Paz, Mexico
Ensenada, Mexico
Victoria, BC
Yokohama, Japan
MV FAGELGRACHT
Ensenada, Mexcio: May 1-10, 2020
Goflito, Costa Rica: May 8-18, 2020
Palm Beach FL, USA: May 15-25, 2020
MV SLOTERGRACHT or sub
St John’s, ATG: May 5 – 25, 2020
St Thomas, USVI: May 5 – 25, 2020
Freeport, BHS
Newport, RI
Northern Europe
Southampton
MV HUDSONGRACHT
Guaymas, Mexcio: May 15-25, 2020
Goflito, Costa Rica: May 20-30, 2020
Palm Beach FL, USA: June 01-10, 2020
MV SINGELGRACHT
Palm Beach, FL, USA: May 18 – 22, 2020
St. Thomas, USVI: May 21 – 25, 2020
Antigua: May 23 – 27, 2020
Palma de Mallorca
Genoa, Italy
Tivat, Montenegro
Sailing schedules from the Caribbean with DYT include:
Le Marin, Martinique: April 18 –23, 2020
St Thomas, USVI: April 20 –25, 2020
Port Everglades, USA: April 26 – May 1, 2020
Genoa, Italy: May 14 –20, 2020
St Thomas, USVI: May 4 –11, 2020
Port Everglades, USA: May 11 – May 17, 2020
Genoa, Italy: May 31 – June 6, 2020
Sailing schedules from the Caribbean with Peters and May include:
Caribbean to Med:
Voyage Number: TE2005A
Vessel Name: To be confirmed
Loading: St Johns, Antigua: 5th – 20th May
Discharging: Palma de Mallorca + 14 days
Genoa, Italy + 3 day
Caribbean to Northern Europe:
Voyage Number: TE2005B
Vessel Name: AAL Melbourne
Loading: St Johns, Antigua: 1st – 5th May
Discharging: Southampton, UK + 12 days
Antwerp or Bremerhaven + 1 day
Sailing schedules for the Pacific with SYT include:
MV MINERVAGRACHT
Newcastle, Australia: 30 April, 2020
Auckland, NZ: 5 May, 2020
Tahiti, FP: 15 May, 2020
Southampton, UK
Palma de Mallorca
Sailing schedules for the Pacific with Peters and May include:
Med to New Zealand (special Americas Cup sailing)
Voyage Number: AKL2001
Vessel Name: To be confirmed
Loading:
Genoa: 15th – 30th September
Palma + 3 days
Newport, RI + 15 days
Discharging:
Auckland + 33 days
Post-Americas cup sailing returning back on the same route loading between 1st – 15th April 2021
Sailing schedules for Asia with SYT include:
MV HAPPY DOVER
Hong Kong: 10-20 May, 2020
Phuket: 15-30 May, 2020
Optional load port depending on interest: Male, Maldives
Fethiye, Turkey
Genoa, Italy
Gibraltar
The Netherlands
Sailing schedules for Asia with Peters and May include:
Asia to the Med
Voyage Number: SW2001
Vessel Name: To be confirmed
Loading:
Hong Kong: 1st – 15th May
Phuket: + 7 days
Discharging:
Fethiye, Turkey + 24 days
Genoa, Italy + 2 day
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Noonsite has not independently verified this information.
Related to following destinations: Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Balearics, British Columbia, Canada, Costa Rica, France, French Polynesia, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Maldives, Martinique, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, US Virgin Islands, USA
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dear sailors,
If you have planned to ship your boat with “sevenstar Yacht Transport”, I think you should read the following advices.
I shipped my sailing boat 6 months ago. The story of the shipment is so long and I had so many problems with sevenstar that I will not tell the full story now (If you want I can give you the details by email).
If you want to avoid all the problems I had, You should follow these advises:
-Always be on board the cargo ship to oversee all the boat handling/chocking operations during loading and offloading (The best should be to make a movie of all the handling operations): sevenstar loading master can really do big mistakes and damage your boat even if you gave all necessary informations about how to handle your boat before loading. Remark: because of “safety reasons”, we were forbidden to be on board the cargoship when loading.
-Always make a survey of the boat at loading: if your boat is not new and is damaged during transport, sevenstar will say that the boat was damaged before loading even if they obviously did some mistakes during handling.
-Modify the transport contract between you and sevenstar: this contract has been made by sevenstar’s lawyers: it means you have no rights. You should read all the contract before signing and try to modify all that you can.
You should try to add to the contract a date of delivery and penalties for sevenstar in case of delay. If you don’t do that, as soon as your boat is loaded, sevenstar can do exactly all that they want, and you can only wait…
You should modify or cancel the clause n°9 “liberties”: Due to this clause, the cargo ship can deviate from his initial route and call at any ports for any reasons even if carrying your boat.
Due to this clause, your boat can be offloaded in any ports, stored and reloaded on another cargoship: this is transhipment.
Sevenstar is not supposed to inform you of the risk of transhipment.
I hope it will help you
have a safe trip
pah”
Peters and May have now added St Lucia as a Port of call to their additional sailings. It appears that with restrictions still in place preventing boats moving between islands there are a lot of boats still in the Caribbean that need shipping back outside of Antigua.
Due to the exceptional demand this year Peters and May are now running two further sailings for anyone looking to head back from the Caribbean that missed out on the May sailings that sold out that would prefer to ship rather than sail back.
Caribbean to Med:
TE2006A
Fort Lauderdale: 30th May – 10th June
St Johns: 5th – 15th June 2020
Palma + 14 days
Malta + 3 days
Caribbean to N.Europe:
TE2006B
Fort Lauderdale: 30th May – 10th June
St Johns, Antigua: 5th – 15th June 2020
Southampton/Portsmouth + 14 days
Any enquires can be directed to the following email: [email protected]
Peters and May up and coming shipments – https://updates.petersandmaygroup.com/t/ViewEmail/r/4CB9E3D2380B13CC2540EF23F30FEDED/C261C9BAF750E99C1726EA5DA1051479