Sealand Boat Deliveries

Yacht Transport News 2008

FROM THE MAR MENOR TO THE RIVER LUNE - INCH PERFECT

Driver Gary Cooke takes command from the flying bridge for the extra mile,
as an extra high Eurobanker 42 clears a notorious humpback bridge.

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After hauling an extra high Eurobanker 42 motor yacht 2500km from the Mediterranean to the Irish Sea, with her keel no more than 30cm off the road, Transboat driver Gary Cooke took command on the flying bridge of the yacht HAMAR when she cleared two notorious humpback bridges on the last mile across the marshes.

MENDING BROKEN DREAMS ON LAKE WINDERMERE

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September 2008 Boat owner Derek Abbott, trapped on Windermere for a year without a berth for his 14.6m - 48ft - houseboat SWALLOW, pulled off a Great Escape.

YACHTS FOR NORWAY

Fairline Targa 40 bound for Alesund

This Fairline Targa 40 motor yacht was purchased in North Wales GB, transported by lorry to Grimsby, cradled on the quay and hoisted aboard the Eimskip ship STORFOSS, outward bound for Murmansk. The crew of STORFOSS launched the Fairline in a Norwegian fjord near her new owner's home at Ålesund.

Fairline Squadron 43

In April 2008 the 14 tonne 13.72m Fairline Squadron 43 PROFORM 1 was shipped from Inverkip in Scotland and launched in Western Norway from the STORFOSS.

Fairline Squadron 43 on trailer

Shipping from Grimsby by Eimskip

cradling at Grimsby

Cradling by Sealand Boat Deliveries.

A PORTOFINO 31 FOR FINLAND

The Sunseeker Portofino 31 SIMPLY RED left Pwllheli, North Wales, on May 7, 2008, and was afloat in her new home port of Naantali in Finland before the end of the month.

Simply Red at Pwllheli

Pwlllheli

Harwich

Turku

Naantali

CZECH WIDEBOATS FOR IRELAND
39 tonne new Czech wideboat

In May 2008 Rice Transport of Dungannon were called in by Sealand Boat Deliveries to move this 60ft x 13ft [18.2m x 3.96m] 39 tonne new steel wideboat, built by Carefree Cruising in Czechia, delivered by road and ferry for launching on the Grand Canal at Sallins, Co Kildare IRL.

A NEW WAY OF BARGING INTO THE CONTINENT
Liverpool Boats wideboat at Antwerp

Barge owner Jim Hart used different multi-modal transport methods on the shakedown cruise of his 40ft x 10ft [12.9m x 3.04m] 13 tonne steel wideboat.

Planning to cruise in the Low Countries, he asked Sealand Boat Deliveries to collect the new HILDA JANE from the workshops of Liverpool Boats and ship her aboard an Atlantic Container Line RORO ship loading in the Royal Seaforth Dock, Liverpool, bound for the container terminal in Antwerp, at the heart of the European waterway system.

Two days later, HILDA JANE rolled out of the MV ATLANTIC CONCERT for launching on the River Scheldt by permanent terminal crane. Jim's plan beat the problem of spot hiring expensive mobile cranes when launching heavy British narrow boats and barges on the canals in Northern France and Belgium. The cost, from workshop to water in Belgium, was GBP 4,000.00, including Value Added Tax and Jim's passenger trip by night ferry to Rotterdam.

Liverpool wideboat

In April 2008, Jim asked Sealand to bring HILDA JANE back to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal from the Biesbosch in the Netherlands, this time by lorry. Just 24 hours after loading at the W. Snoek Jachtbetimmering in Drimmelen, HILDA JANE was lowered into the Leeds and Liverpool canal at Botany Bay Boatyard, near Chorley. The cost was almost exactly equal to Jim's outward freight bill.

January 2008: MIGHTY MAX 2 escapes from Liverpool Marina
Prima 38 MIGHTY MAX 2

Lock repairs at Liverpool Marina forced many winter road moves. Neil Thomas's fast Prima 38 is here loaded at Liverpool for delivery to Holyhead in time for winter racing at Pwllheli, North Wales.

Road tunnel Conwy, North Wales.

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NAVIGARE NECESSE EST, VIVERE NON EST NECESSE
To sail is necessary, to survive is not necessary.

Attributed by Plutarch to Gnaeus Pompeius who sent sailors to sea in bad weather to bring grain from Africa to Rome.

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Ein Amerikaner aus Kalifornien war 1997 unser erster Kunde. Er liess seine Yacht in Amerika von Küste zu Küste transportieren. Seit diesem ungewöhnlichen Boottransport, hat unsere Transportbörse hunderte von Yachtbesitizern mit anderen Bootstransporteuren in Verbindung gebracht. Stellen auch sie ihr Transportproblem auf dem BTX board dar. Die Bootstranporteure geben kostenlos Ratschläge und bieten ihnen Preise an.