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 on sail- and motor-yachts. Captain Jeremy Hopkins, Captain Bill England and Captain Michael Mosser are highly experienced full-time captains and instructors. Capt. Jeremy holds a USCG 100-ton Near Coastal license, and Capt. Bill & Capt. Mike hold USCG 50-ton Near Coastal licenses. Capt. Jeremy & Capt. Bill are American Sailing Association certified Coastal Cruising Instructors. We all adhere to the highest possible standards for instruction and take 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.

June 2009

Last year was yet another busy year for us. We completed a total of 25 sail- And motor-yacht deliveries; 20 on the U.S. East Coast between Maine and Florida, One from Annapolis to the Gulf Coast of Florida, two sailboat passages along the Erie Canal (1 eastbound from Buffalo to Albany, NY; 1 westbound from Baltimore, MD, to Rochester, NY) and one each from the Abacos to Maryland, and from Maryland to Antigua, for a total distance of 12,355 nautical miles. Eight deliveries each exceeded 1,000 nautical miles, and the total insured value of the vessels entrusted to us was $8.04 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, as well as the support of so many boat-owners and yacht dealers & brokers.

Capt. Bill got this season off to a very early start in late February with the last-minute notice delivery of the brand new Hanse 630 sloop Sticky Toffee from Jolly Harbour, Antigua to Miami, FL, on behalf of her Germany-based owner. He has since been busy on instruction in Annapolis with Jean & Jim J, on their new-to-them Taswell 49 sloop WindSong, as well as the owner-assisted delivery of a 32’ Island Packet cutter from Oriental, NC to Crisfield, MD and the delivery of a Tayana 42 from Palmetto, FL to Baltimore. Capt. Mike has had a great start to the season with two Nordhavn 57 trawler deliveries; one from Charleston, SC to Annapolis and the other from Savannah, GA to Solomons Island, MD, a Tiara 30 delivery from Somers Pt, NJ to Mill Creek, VA and a 42’ Morgan ketch delivery from Beaufort, NC to Annapolis, via the IntraCoastal Waterway and the Chesapeake Bay.  Capt Jeremy had the pleasure of working with Cathy & Richard G in Baltimore, on their new-to-them Nordic Tug 42 Rambler, prior to their departure for Lake Ontario via the NJ coast, the Hudson River and the Erie and Oswego Canals. Next for him was the owner-assisted delivery of the Cabo Rico 42 cutter Kokomo from St Petersburg, FL, to Marsh Harbour in the Abacos. In May he spent a very enjoyable day in Smithfield, VA, at the Nordic Tugs Rendezvous, discussing, demonstrating and coaching docking techniques in cross-currents and breezes on the beam onboard Annapolis Sailyard Inc’s 2009 Nordic Tug 37, before flying back to Marsh Harbour with two of his regular crew for the delivery of Kokomo from Marsh Harbour to Norfolk, VA, where the new owners re-joined the vessel for a leisurely Chesapeake Bay cruise.

Now with three full-time USCG licensed captains available we can confidently offer enhanced delivery or instruction services without in any way compromising our well-established reputation for responsibility, reliability and integrity. We welcome all inquiries for deliveries, owner-assisted passages or instruction, power or sail, so please do not hesitate to call or e-mail if we can help with any additional information you may require.

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.