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Vessel takes precedence
No schedule or fee overrides vessel safety. Where the window closes, departure is held and the cause is reported.
Operating company.
Yacht Transits Limited contracts yacht movement across European waters. Base of operations: Beaulieu-sur-Mer.
Mandate AB-01
Delivery failure is administrative, not nautical.
Deliveries rarely fail at sea. They fail through loss of contact, unaccounted damage, customs status discovered at a border rather than at a desk, and costs raised after the fact.
Each is an administrative failure and each is preventable. Yacht Transits plans in writing, reports continuously, documents both ends of every passage, and treats a written quote as fixed rather than indicative.
Base of operations is Beaulieu-sur-Mer, on the corridor where much European yacht movement begins or ends. Operating area is the continent. Vessels are built in the north, sold in the south, wintered inland and chartered in the islands.
How we work AB-02
Operating commitments.
Six standards applied to every contracted delivery.
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Continuous reporting
Position transmitted at agreed intervals, with immediate notification of any change. The quoting manager remains the point of contact throughout.
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Full documentation
Condition photography and systems checklist at both ends, engine hours logged, fuel reconciled against receipts. No element of the record depends on recollection.
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Qualified crew only
Commercially endorsed skippers and experienced watchkeepers, assigned by vessel and cruising area. Certification issued to owner and underwriter before departure.
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Fixed quotation
Inclusions listed, pass-through costs named, and any unforeseen expenditure agreed in advance rather than invoiced retrospectively.
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Declined where unsuitable
Wrong season, wrong vessel or inadequate preparation results in the contract being declined rather than the consequences being managed at sea.
One team
Quote to handover
Crew & network AB-03
A crew network that reaches every coastline we cover.
Yacht Transits operates through a vetted roster of commercially endorsed skippers, watchkeepers and marine engineers spread across the European cruising grounds we work in. That reach is the point: crew are assigned to a passage because they suit the vessel and know the water, never because they happened to be the ones available.
Every skipper holds a commercial endorsement appropriate to the tonnage and the waters, with current medical and safety training behind it. Selection is made against the specific passage — engine configuration, tonnage, handling behaviour and the coastline involved — and the full qualification pack is issued to you and to your underwriter in writing before anybody steps aboard.
- Commercially endorsed skippers, assigned by tonnage, vessel type and the cruising ground the passage actually crosses.
- Experienced watchkeepers for offshore legs that need a genuine round-the-clock rotation rather than an optimistic one.
- Marine engineers carried on larger and older vessels, so that a fault at sea is repaired underway instead of merely reported.
- An established shore network of agents, hauliers, yards and marinas in every region on our operating map.
“Every passage planned in writing before departure.”
Yacht Transits LimitedWho we work with AB-04
Client base.
A substantial share of delivery work is contracted by the trade rather than directly by owners.
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Private owners
Seasonal repositioning, moves after a purchase, getting her home from a charter base, or simply not wanting to spend a fortnight of annual leave doing Biscay.
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Brokers & dealers
Moving stock between showrooms and shows, delivering sold boats to new owners, and handling the collection and handover so a sale does not sour in its last week.
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Yards & builders
New-build collection, yard-to-yard transfers, sea trials and delivery to a customer's home port, with progress reported back through the build if wanted.
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Charter & management companies
Season-start and season-end repositioning between bases, plus the cruising permits and clearance work that go with moving a commercial vessel across borders.
Work with us AB-05
Submit a requirement.
Vessel, ports and window are assessed against season, crew availability and vessel suitability. Unsuitable contracts are declined.