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.

July 2008

Last year, 2007, 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 as well as 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 43’ 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  local Chesapeake Bay deliveries Capt. Jeremy kept busy in the 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.

Capt. Bill’s deliveries in May included the owner-assisted delivery of a Nor’Sea 27 cutter from Annapolis which concluded in Atlantic City with 40-knot headwinds creating 8-foot breaking waves in the Absecon Inlet, more weather issues on  the delivery of a Catalina 40 sloop from Deale, MD, to Ft. Lauderdale, FL, the delivery of a Hunter 31 sloop from Baltimore to Salem, MA, and instruction in the northern part of the Bay on a Hunter 43 sloop.

Capt. Jeremy attended 2 surveys with customers in the early part of May; a very nice Bristol 31 in Oriental, NC, for a Washington, DC client and a classic Allied Seabreeze 35 ketch in Savannah, GA,  for a client from Boulder, CO. Both vessels were subsequently purchased and both have now arrived in the Chesapeake Bay.  He also worked with the owners of a Beneteau 43 on a weather-plagued instruction cruise from Galesville, MD to Norfolk, VA, and back. This was followed by the delivery of a new Nordic Tugs 42 from Annapolis to North East, MD, for the Nordic Tug Rally held at the North East River Yacht Club. The exciting part of this delivery was standing-by a swamped and sinking Gemini catamaran until the Cavalry (the US Coastguard) arrived on the scene. He finished out the month with the owner-assisted delivery of a Hans Christian Christina 43 cutter from Baltimore to Rochester, NY, via the Hudson River and the Erie Barge Canal, which included reaching in 25-30 knot winds up the New Jersey coast from Cape May to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in just 22 hours, followed by passage up the Hudson River and then through the Erie Barge Canal. Once the mast is re-stepped in Buffalo, the owners plan to complete the delivery to their vessel’s new home in Chicago.

In June we delivered a new Nordic Tugs 42 and a Cabo Rico pilothouse cutter from Annapolis to Washington, DC, for the National Capital Marina Boat Show. We returned them back to Annapolis following the show together with a new Integrity 47 pilothouse trawler. This marked a major milestone for Maryland Sailing Inc as the insured value of the Integrity trawler exceeded one million dollars – a first for us! Capt. Bill immediately followed-up with the delivery of a Valiant 42 cutter from Marathon, FL to Norfolk, VA, while Capt. Jeremy was vacationing in Great Britain.

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Capt. Jeremy Hopkins, Mobile: 443-243-4925 | Capt. Bill England, Mobile: 410-371-6861
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