Priceless Wisdom

While I’ve often heard anchoring referred to as a “black art,” successful anchoring has more to do with knowing tried-and-true techniques and when to employ them than it does with spells and curses (although I’ve heard plenty of the latter directed towards dragging anchors and the like). At some point all boaters encounter conditions where the basic anchoring techniques they’ve employed with no worries a hundred times before just aren’t cutting it.

When you want to move your boat, but don't want to sail it, what are your options?

Sometimes, for whatever reason, you want to get your boat from one place to another without sailing it. In part one, we discussed transporting boats overland via truck and trailer. Now we'll look at option two: hiring a delivery skipper.

The obvious way to get your boat from point A to point B is to sail it. If you have the time, the boat, the equipment, the crew, the experience, the seasonal window, and the inclination, then that's the way to go. But what if you don't have these things? What if you want to spend some time on your own boat exploring rugged, foggy coves, and then want to spend some time anchored off a sunny beach strewn with coconuts, but you don't want to sail the thousands of miles between the two? Enter the marine transport industry.