"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
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Anyone see the program on Super Servant on Discovery channel tonight?
Very interesting show but I thought it only ran trans Atlantic routes.
That run was Ft. Lauderdale to St. Thomas. I can see Calais or Gibraltar
to Antigua but an average fee of $7,000 to transport your boat on a route
that can be made on your on hull in 2 or 3 weeks with lots of nice stops
on the way? Even out to 65W it is only 10-12 days.

Several of those yachts looked like they would have beat Super Servant's
15 knots on their own.

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Glenn Ashmore

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They are adding new routes all the time. Last year they added a stop in
Alaska to their West Coast stops. I actually saw the carrier docked at our
commercial terminal in Nanaimo a few months ago which was a surprise. I
assume there was a special reason for this stop.
According to ads in the sailing mags they are also commissioning a new ship
that has been specially designed/built for yacht transport. Maybe some
innovations to speed up the building of the cradles.

If your boat is set up for coastal cruising, and that is your main interest,
I think using their service to get you across oceans makes sense. You could
easily spend more than $8k trying to outfit your boat for an ocean crossing
(liferaft, EPIRB, etc) and then you would have all the wear and tear of the
voyage, not to mention the time required and work involved.