We are located just south of Daytona Beach, Florida.

If you have a boat that you would like to have delivered somewhere, please contact Captain West at eagleyachts@att.net or eagleyachts@gmail.com or (386) 295-2578 for assistance.  Rates will vary depending on distance, offshore or inshore days, lay days, boat size, boat type and crew requirements. 

Since closing my yacht brokerage in 2002,  deliveries include taking a  43' Beneteau sailboat from Ft. Lauderdale and bringing it back to Daytona Beach, Fl with the new owner aboard.  This worked out so that the new owner not only had his boat delivered, but had instruction on sail trim, reefing, heaving to, coastal piloting and chart work, taking bearings, docking, trouble shooting minor problems, anchoring and use of the electronics including proper VHF procedure.  Since the owner was new to boating, this gave him enough of the basics to be able to take his boat out with his family and friends.

In January, 2003, I brought a 47' Alden ketch down from Jacksonville to Daytona for the owner to list with a local broker and sell.  A couple of days later I took a 55' Sea Ray Sedan Bridge MY from Daytona to Ft. Lauderdale for an owner who has a business here and lives there, leaving him little time for moving the boat from place to place.  In February, I brought the same 55' Sea Ray back to Daytona. 

Just prior to this trip, I helped a new owner move his 320 Luhrs Sportfishing boat from Daytona to Carabelle, Florida, which included a 140 mile open water Gulf of Mexico crossing from Tarpon Springs, FL to Dog Island, Fl.  This owner also recieved instruction on chart reading, course plotting, docking, etc.

In August, 2003, I had the owners of another 55' Sea Ray Sedanbridge MY have me take their boat from Daytona to Hiltonhead SC.  Since they were unfamiliar with Ponce Inlet and unable to go offshore on their own, by taking them offshore to the Savanah River  and then into Hilton Head, I saved them at least one day's travel time plus we used less fuel going in a straight line rather than snaking back and forth in the ICW.  This in turn saved them at least one night's dockage and a sufficient amount of fuel that they probably spent no more having me along than if they had gone up the ICW on their own.

In March of 2004 I took a Gulfstar 45 sloop with one of my students to the Bahamas.  I had done the sea trial on the boat and given them instruction in 2003 and they wanted someone to go with them on their first long distance trip.  Just at sunset, on the second day, we were joined by about 18 to 20 dolphins.  They swam alongside and under the boat for about an hour with one of them jumping up next to us and tail walking several times! The owners brought the boat back by themselves a couple of weeks later.

At the end of March, the 47' Alden that I had delivered to Daytona for sale in January of 2003 was sold and I accompanied the new owner and his father on a trip to Oriental, NC.  Part was offshore and part inshore.  In March and even early April, fronts come through so often that it is rare that the weather remains good for the entire trip.  We practiced ded. reckoning, plotting, chart reading, vhf usage, anchoring, docking, transiting unfamiliar inlets and sailing. 

In July I delivered a 40' Silverton MY from Daytona to Ft. Meyers and in November, a 27' Sea Ray Express Cruiser from Orange Park on the St. Johns river to Daytona Beach.

In December of 2004, I helped some new novice owners of an Island Packet 38' cutter, bring their new boat from Tampa Bay, via the Keys, to Daytona Beach, about a 600 mile trip.  The weather was a bit unco-operative from Marathon on and it took 27 hours to get from Marathon to Ft. Lauderdale in 8-10' seas and gale force winds on the nose.  At least it wasn't freezing!  The new owners now have experience anchoring, navigating and trimming sails.  When they moved aboard their new boat here in Daytona, we went out and practiced docking more, since, on the trip around, we just kept traveling and only docked a couple of times.

In November, 2005, I helped a new owner move his just purchased Whitby 42', cruising ketch, from Daytona to the Big Bend of Florida, just south of Tallahassee.  This was his first sailboat and his first long distance boating trip, although he had sea experience, having worked on a charter fishing boat out of Hatteras, NC for a couple of summers.

The boat had not been used, except as a live-aboard, for several years, so we had a few mechanical problems that had to be ironed out in the first few days.  Because we anticipated this would happen as things which had not been used much were used, we traveled down the Intracoastal Waterway to the St. Lucie River.  From there we went offshore to Fowey Rocks off Key Largo and then down the Hawk Channel to Marathon.  From there we headed out across Florida Bay and sailed without stopping to Shell Point in Appalachee Bay. 

The best parts of this trip were that the GPS was not properly initialized and had not been reset for daylight savings times, so the owner got to practice coastal navigation without the benefit of an electronic crutch.  Even though we solved the GPS problems, we still plottted all the courses instead of using the GPS.  In addition, Hurricane Wilma had carried away many of the marks (in fact, after turning northward from Marathon, we saw not one mark in Florida Bay) and this required paying very close attention to our direction and speed so that we could plot our way through the shoals to deeper waters.  At the other end, only one mark that was on our chart leading into Shell Point was there.  Again, keeping track of direction and speed, we were able to navigate around the many shoal areas on the way to the Shell Point Channel. 

It was about a 1,000 nautical mile trip and it took us from Friday the 4th of November to Monday the 14th of November, with a late start the first day to solve an overheating problem and a 3-day stay in Ft. Pierce waiting on the rebuilding of an injector pump.

In February, 2006, I had an out-of-state boatowner contact me about moving his 44' Trojan Express Cruiser from Daytona, south for the Miami Boat Show.  The boat had been sitting for many months and we had a few electrical problems to take care of before we left.  After we finally got underway, around 1pm we had a relatively uneventful two day trip, but had great weather for it.  In March of 2009, we moved this Trojan back to Daytona.

The day after I returned I was called on to help with a survey/sea-trial of a 43' Morgan center cockpit sloop.  It was another great day and the sea-trial went fine.  The folks bought the boat and then hired me for a few lessons.  In 2006 they cruised north to North Carolina and in 2007 they set off for the Bahamas.

In 2007 I moved a 42' Grand Banks trawler from Portsmouth, Rhode Island to Cape Canaveral in Novemeber and December.  Lots of gales, snow, freezing temperatures, incredible sunrises and sunsets, fall colors and overall, a great trip!