Yacht delivery, how much $$

Would this delivery be done over two days or one day? I think of it as a two day run and for captain plus mate then something in the $900-1100 range plus all expenses. If I were to agree to do it then in one day, I'd work down from my two day rate. So, if a normal one day was $500 including mate, I'd be in the $700-800 range total for the 16 hour trip.

Knowing the condition of the boat first hand would be important too. When it's an unknown boat, it will take some time just to do a pre-delivery check. Simple things like it needing fuel add time. I see 16 hours easily becoming 18 if it's not a boat that I'm regularly captaining and familiar with.

I agree, unless he already knows that boat very well and very recently.

It's 2 days charge to the owner all day long. Figure get to the boat, get everything ready, might as well do an overnighter if safe to do so (ocean) get in the next morning (I'd charge 2 days for this), drive home.....16 hours even if you left at day break and you're still doing some travel in the dark..... if you can, just plan on doing it in 2 reasonable days, rather than 1 16 hour day or overnighter.

$350-400 a day (normal day 10 hrs) Capt. $175-200 Mate.......

I'm sure he's well aware that he bought a boat that someone can run faster than it cruises at! hehehee..... You just cannot push things....I would never plan on pulling in an inlet at dark unless it's something like Port Everglades that's extremely well marked, well lit, and I've been in and out of it 10,000 times. Where are you taking it from/to?

That is one VERY long day. I'd check the fill caps and make sure the o-ring is in good condition on them and the vent location. Very rare that much water is just sitting in the tanks, it probably leaked in from deck fittings.

Easily $400 a day and make it a two day trip. On a boat you don't know? Perhaps $500 because you may end up with a situation like water in the fuel like you did, which is a disaster waiting to happen. Never go in inlet at night unless it's Port Everglades or better; you could have water in the fuel and wind against tide which leaves you on the rocks. Another thread had a person take the boat down the coast and claim it to be easy; one time does not equate to every time. It only takes one wrong thing to see someone or something hurt badly. The risk may be small but the consequences are great.

I agree with Bamboo. I wouldn't feel it prudent to pull out at 4:30am in the dark, or into Cape May at 9pm in the dark. UNLESS it was like Port Everglades. But I would've made that a normal 2 day trip. IMO the biggest skill or a Captain is decision making and risk mitigation.

How many helmsman were there? What kind of shifts did you work? What kind of rest?

I'm just saying that while I know it's done all the time, that doesn't make it right, and if you were "working" the entire time that is 16.5 hours and that, in my opinion, is too much and fatigue leads to mistakes, especially when making nighttime entries into inlets. If you had been in a role subject to maritime labor rules you exceeded the allowable hours in a day. As to Cape May at night, not my preference, but especially at night after 16.5 hours. I don't understand pushing yourself so.