Yacht Delivery UK have just completed a long trip from The Isle Of White down to the sunny beaches of Alicante. The trip was made easy as the yacht we were delivering was a luxurious Dufour 44. The trip started and finished in great weather with force 4 - 5 winds and a nice blue skies. We left the isle of White on a Thursday morning heading about 240 degrees with the wind on the nose. We motored for the first few hours and then got the sails up to see if w...
So the latest adventure for the crew at Yacht Delivery UK was one of the shorter journey, but still just as much fun. We took a small Yacht from the calm waters of Burnham on Sea around the coast of Shoeburryness and into the not so calm waters of Thorpe Bay Yacht Club. The journey was no more than 2 hours with a total work time of 4 hours. The hardest part of the trip was getting from the Yacht into the small Tender which was bumping around next to us ...
Loch Sven to Lisbon - Sailing the Bay of Biscay
The last successful delivery was from Loch Sven, deep in the hart of Scotland, all the way down to the warmer climate of Portugal. It took us just under 2 weeks in total with a couple of stop offs. The first on the isle of Gigha, then onto the Silly Isles and then onto La Corona and finally all the way down to Lisbon.
Bay of Biscay
We headed into a Southerly wind literally all the way across the Bay of
We have just successfully delivered a nice fully coded Bavaria 36 Cruiser yacht. this was brought back from Newcastle down to Southampton. The weather was great the wind was consistent and the yacht was fantastic. We pulled out of the Harbour going past Nobby Head and then headed on a bearing of 110 to get away from the land. We picked up a good Force 3 Southerly wind giving as a nice sail out for the morning, getting some 10 miles offshore. We the tu...