In business since 1994, our goal has been to provide the most reliable and professional delivery services, as well as stimulating and enjoyable personalized instruction. Captain Jeremy Hopkins and Captain Bill England are highly experienced full-time captains and instructors. Both hold USCG 50-ton Near-Coastal licenses, and are American Sailing Association certified Coastal Cruising Instructors. Each adheres to the highest possible standards for instruction and takes great professional pride in ensuring an on-time, on-budget delivery.

Whether your interest is a local, Intra-Coastal Waterway, East Coast, Bahamas, Caribbean or a Gulf of Mexico delivery, assistance with returning your boat to your home marina following an extended cruise, or with moving your boat to a new location, an owner-assisted delivery, new vessel purchase familiarization, topic-specific instruction, a general refresher instruction course, or private instruction in coastal or celestial navigation, we can help. Our extensive delivery experience includes monohull sailboats, sailing and power catamarans, tugs, trawlers and motor-yachts.

We work near and far! We are very familiar with the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, the New Jersey coast, Raritan Bay and the East & Hudson Rivers, Long Island and Block Island Sounds, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts & the Gulf of Maine, Lake Ontario and the Oswego & Erie Canal systems, the entire Intra-Coastal Waterway from Norfolk to Miami, the Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia & Florida coasts and the Gulf of Mexico.

We also have many thousands of miles of open ocean sailing experience including deliveries to and from Bermuda, the Bahamas, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the British & US Virgin Islands, St Martin, Antigua, St Lucia & Grenada in the Caribbean Basin, the Yucatan Peninsula & the Pacific coast of Mexico, the South Atlantic islands of St. Helena and Ascension, Brazil, Suriname, and trans-Atlantic delivery passages from Mallorca, in the western Mediterranean and from Cape Town, South Africa, to Annapolis, MD. Please visit our deliveries page for specific details of our most recent deliveries.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can help with any additional information you may require. References from our past customers are readily available. We look forward to hearing from you, and to working with you.

May 2008

Last year was yet another busy year for us. We completed a total of 28 sail- and motor-yacht deliveries; 23 on the U.S. East Coast between Maine and Florida, two across the Gulf of Mexico, and one each from the Abacos to Maryland, from Annapolis to Tortola and from Annapolis to Antigua, for a total distance of 14,291 nautical miles. Seven deliveries each exceeded 1,000 nautical miles, and the total insured value of the vessels entrusted to us was $7,36 million. Details and photos of each delivery passage are shown on the delivery page. It is wonderful to be so busy and we greatly appreciate the confidence placed in us and the support of so many boat-owners and yacht brokers.

For Capt. Jeremy, 2008 got off to an enjoyable and very early start with a 2-week Grand Banks 46’ trawler charter from Sarasota, FL, through the Florida Keys to Ft. Lauderdale & Miami for customers from the German Baltic coast, followed in March by the Windmill Mid-Winter Championships in Tampa Bay. Hosted by the Davis Island Yacht Club, this years event was another success. Great sailing, good weather (mostly!), excellent courses and R/C work and, most important of all, great fun and camaraderie with the wonderful group of Windmill sailors. For more information on this exciting, fun and challenging racing dinghy class please visit www.windmillclass.org.

Despite some difficult weather conditions, Capt. Bill and his crew successfully delivered a 42’ Robertson & Caine Leopard catamaran from Marsh Harbour, in the Abacos, to Washington, D.C., in late April, for local owners. As well as completing several one-day Bay deliveries Capt. Jeremy kept busy in this early part of the season primarily with instruction for a number of customers who have recently purchased a very pretty Lyle Hess Nor’Sea 27 sloop, a characterful Shannon 28 cutter, a Jeanneau 37 sloop, a Sabre 402, a 56’ gaff schooner with a truly terrifying 9’ bowsprit, and one customer who has chartered a brand-new Jeanneau 36i for several weekends of cruising instruction, prior to possibly purchasing a sailboat at some later stage.

Despite all the prophecies of economic doom and gloom we have a very busy delivery and instruction schedule for the Spring and early part of the Summer, and we are looking forward to meeting and working with many new customers, as well as existing customers who are now sailing better and more confidently, who are just getting more enjoyment from their sailing, and simply having more fun. And if it isn’t fun, then why do it!?

MarylandSailing.com, 410-757-9001, info@marylandsailing.com
Capt. Jeremy Hopkins, Mobile: 443-243-4925 | Capt. Bill England, Mobile: 410-371-6861
Sailboat & Motor Yacht Deliveries.  Personalized Sailing, Piloting & Navigation Instruction.