Fair Grace delivered from a Swedish yard to Turku
After a year-long refit in a Swedish shipyard, Fair Grace was checked, test sailed in Malmö and delivered across the Baltic to Turku in Finland. The owner said it best: the Scandinavian summer is short.
Sea trials
Before departure
1,500-2,000 EUR
Similar delivery today, net
Utklippan · Kalmar · Mariehamn
Stops on the way, July 2018
Turku
Archipelago National Park
Net price for a similar delivery today. The owner covers fuel, berthing fees, repairs to the boat and crew travel to the start and home from the finish.
The passage
First the sea trials, then the delivery
Fair Grace had just come out of a year-long refit in a Swedish shipyard, and the owner had spent a small fortune on it. A boat coming out of a long refit is never quite finished, so in July 2018 the first thing our crew did in Malmö was check her over and make a few short trial trips to be sure she was safe to sail. A list of small issues got fixed before we left, not on the way.
The owner wanted her in Turku within a week or so, because, as he put it, the Scandinavian summer is short. We went first to Utklippan, a small island off Karlskrona where the seals watched us come in, then to Kalmar and on to Mariehamn in the Åland Islands. There the owner came aboard and sailed the last leg with us, through the Archipelago National Park to Turku.
The owner came back
In September 2018 the owner asked us to move Fair Grace again, from Turku to Ustka in Poland. After that he took on a local skipper to look after her in Górki, Gdańsk.
The saloon after the refit
Fair Grace before departure
How we ran it
What the owner got, step by step.
Crew and plan
A professional delivery skipper and crew matched to the yacht and the route, a passage plan and the weather window agreed with the owner before departure.
The passage
Position updates along the way and decisions made for the safety of the boat first: port stops for fuel, provisions and weather as needed.
Handover
The yacht handed over at the destination with a written report on the condition of the boat and anything worth the owner's attention.
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