I know this is a "how long is a piece of string" question, with loads of variables, but does anyone have an idea what it would cost to get say, a 30 footer from Tassie or Perth to Sydney?

I've just taken a redundancy, and there's a chance that when I get myself a new job I'll be allowed to upgrade. Dunno how confident I'd feel bringing something new to me from the more further afield locations, given I've never skippered offshore, so just trying to get a feel of if I should limit my search away from them.

Be Patient - something will turn up in front of you !
Unless unique, would not do a relocation,as too complicated/expensive,but the experience could be worthwhile with good crew ?
Mason

I would suggest looking at yachts in the country towns of NSW. Limited market to sell locally sometimes sees these vessels sell cheaper.

If you've never skippered offshore, do you have much experience crewing offshore?

I know two guys who had done a lot of dinghy sailing and the usual harbour and Sydney to Pittwater yacht stuff who took their new (to them) 30 footers singlehanded across Bass Strait. One of them put out a Mayday 80m off the coast and got towed in. The other put out a radio call saying his sails had blown out. They found the boat but not him.

I bought a 40ft sailboat in Hobart. It was going to cost $50,000+ to truck to Perth. We sailed it back over 4 weeks, had a great trip. We did it in legs and waited for a southern high before crossing the bight.

Yeh thanks Planter4 & Ramona - certainly no rush at this stage, just looking all around the place at the moment and wondering whether I should totally rule out anything. A tough order of magnitude is what I'm looking at - are we talking $40k, like Blackswan had, or perhaps something more like $5k, which might be something I could negotiate enough of the purchase price down to cover.

Would be totally fine heading down the coast from Yamba or even Brisbane, but Bass Strait is something that's probably a bit beyond even the other guys I sail with - if only because doing it on a new (to me) yacht just makes it that much more unsure.

RE: are we talking $40k, like Blackswan had, or perhaps something more like $5k,

Read again Planeray. Blackswan said $50,000.
There is your answer,

Not that much for Tassie to Sydney but still.
Think of the fuel cost.
The time it would take.
The fact that it would be a one way trip on a specialize low-loader that would probably return empty.
If over width, would need an escort that would also have to do the return trip.
Insurance and ....
If Tassie , the ferry costs both ways.


gary

Buy mine here in Yamba and I'll sail down with you

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saltiest1 said..
Buy mine here in Yamba and I'll sail down with you

Now there's an offer :-). I guess you could be lucky and find other vendors who are prepared to make the same offer. I personally however would not jump on any boat with someone I didn't know fairly well so as to be able to asses their competence. Frankly I don't know how delivery skippers do it. Having seen the state of the average boat for sale there is no way I would do it like they do.

I would even be very wary doing a significant passage in a boat that I had not owned for a year. It takes a long time to get to know your boat and there are usually many many things which you want to upgrade or replace some of which are not immediately evident even to surveyors.
Having said that I live in Sydney and I looked at boats in Melbourne. In hindsight I'm really glad I didn't buy one there.

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julesmoto said..

saltiest1 said..
Buy mine here in Yamba and I'll sail down with you

Now there's an offer :-). I guess you could be lucky and find other vendors who are prepared to make the same offer. I personally however would not jump on any boat with someone I didn't know fairly well so as to be able to asses their competence. Frankly I don't know how delivery skippers do it. Having seen the state of the average boat for sale there is no way I would do it like they do.

I would even be very wary doing a significant passage in a boat that I had not owned for a year. It takes a long time to get to know your boat and there are usually many many things which you want to upgrade or replace some of which are not immediately evident even to surveyors.
Having said that I live in Sydney and I looked at boats in Melbourne. In hindsight I'm really glad I didn't buy one there.

Absolutely. mine spent 2 weeks on the hard getting it ready to cross the Strait and still had some significant drama. 5 years later and thousands of miles travelled she has been exceptional and I'll be sorry to see her go. There's no way I'd jump on a boat without going over it with a fine tooth comb.

I sailed mine down from Airlie Beach to Sydney 6 years ago with a mate, my 21y/o son and a Skipper. The skipper's fee was $4k. Add food, airfares, spares etc, total cost probably about $6k.

You'll find out a lot about your new boat on the way. The skipper said to me the best way to find the problems with your boat is to take her to sea.

I had mine in Airlie for a few months making sure she was sound before setting off (still found issues though).

An east coast delivery is definitely doable. A good skipper will make sure the weather is taken into account. My advice would be don't be too fixed on a timeframe. If you had to leave her in a port for a week and come home to wait for weather so be it. Maybe that would make the $6k turn into $8k or even $10k but $50k is way beyond what I experienced.

So, in my opinion, anywhere from Melbourne to Cairns is an acceptable purchase site.

I learned a lot about my boat and passage making and had an awesome time doing it. My son and my mate still talk about the trip as an experience of a lifetime.

Gerald

I was surprised how many relocation options are out there. Apparently trucking boats from Perth and Sydney and back again for the S2H is quite a common occurrence. There are also a lot independent delivery skippers out there. I think it would be less than $25K to truck a 30' boat across Australia and about the same to have it delivered. Add another $15K to take it on the Ferry to Tasi.

Some things to think about is that if the boat is not in sea worthy condition (or difficult to assess), it will be very costly to get it into shape at a remote port, rather than tinker about in your home port at your leisure. Whilst overland reduces open water delivery risk, it's challenging to cradle a modern boat to protect a high aspect keel from road vibration damage. Best if the yacht has a full length keel or the keel can be easily dismantled.

It needs to be a real keeper for it to be worthwhile, especially when there are often very good boats for sale in Hobart.

A

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Andrew68 said..
I was surprised how many relocation options are out there. Apparently trucking boats from Perth and Sydney and back again for the S2H is quite a common occurrence. There are also a lot independent delivery skippers out there. I think it would be less than $25K to truck a 30' boat across Australia and about the same to have it delivered. Add another $15K to take it on the Ferry to Tasi.

Some things to think about is that if the boat is not in sea worthy condition (or difficult to assess), it will be very costly to get it into shape at a remote port, rather than tinker about in your home port at your leisure. Whilst overland reduces open water delivery risk, it's challenging to cradle a modern boat to protect a high aspect keel from road vibration damage. Best if the yacht has a full length keel or the keel can be easily dismantled.

It needs to be a real keeper for it to be worthwhile, especially when there are often very good boats for sale in Hobart.

A

He wants to end up in Sydney!