How much will my boat delivery cost?
Run the numbers yourself with the calculator below, or request a quote for your boat.
Allen is an experienced and qualified captain who will take extreme care with your boat to make sure it arrives at its final destination as quickly as possible to make a safe voyage. Here's some info:
- Day rate for captain starts at $500 plus $150 per pro crew member.
- An example 5 day boat delivery day rate with one additional crew member is approximately $3,250 plus expenses.
- To estimate a specific delivery cost: Distance / Cruising Speed = # of hours then divide by 24 = # of Days Multiplied by day rate of skipper and crew. Some inland deliveries are 10 hour days underway only during daylight.
- Travel expenses on top of the day rate may include airfare, taxi, hotel, etc. depending on the delivery.
- Other expenses may include food for Captain and crew, fuel, equipment purchased to make a safe/legal voyage that is not already on the vessel, dockage during unsafe weather or mechanical problems.
- Offshore deliveries are a 24 hour day and require enough crew to keep the boat running at night taking shifts.
- Some inshore deliveries along the inland waterway for instance, must be done in daylight and can have fewer crew, but the boat will dock or anchor at night to avoid running aground.
- If the delivery is held up due to weather or mechanical problems the captain and crew will make half their day rate during the lay days.
- Captain Clark requires that the boat owner adds the captain to the existing insurance policy. Insurers are used to this process and are happy to add a qualified captain.
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