About us
Experienced yacht delivery captains
WateRoute is a team of qualified yacht delivery captains with an office in Barcelona.
Our key principles when delivering a yacht are careful treatment and professional operation.
Before every departure from the marina, we carry out monitoring and weather routing. We decide to put to sea only once we fully understand the expected wind loads on the sails and rigging and the wave loads on the hull.
A boat should travel the way she was built to travel — by water, the water route.
A delivery by water is the best way to test a boat. You get a unique chance to learn everything about the current condition of her hull, engine, rigging and all her systems.
We check everything and give you a detailed report.
What we offer when delivering a yacht
It all starts with a full check
Our team starts every delivery with a full check of the legal and technical documents, photo and video records and engineering tests.
The delivery itself
Delivering a yacht is not just a task but a true art that takes professionalism and experience. If your boat or yacht needs to move to a new place, our qualified specialists will make the delivery safe and efficient, taking every detail of the route into account. We make it as comfortable and reliable for you as possible, and keep the passage gentle on the hull, rigging and equipment.
Urgent repairs and expected breakdowns
A yacht cannot always be delivered without breakdowns on the way. Every delivery puts loads on the boat, and with them comes the risk that parts, units or, at times, a whole system fail temporarily. At the full-check stage, before the delivery begins, we tell you the condition of the boat, so you know in advance what may break and what the spare part will cost. In the vast majority of cases, if something does break, it is exactly what we were all prepared for.
Delivery by sea
Moving a boat by water, on her own keel, is the most common choice for a yacht delivery:
The longer the yacht, the stronger the case for a delivery by sea: she covers the route at a higher speed and can leave the marina in less favourable weather.
The shorter the distance from start to finish, the more cost-effective and convenient a delivery by sea. With the alternatives, the main cost is loading and unloading the boat. Short-range forecasts are much more accurate than long-range ones, which lets the skipper name the right arrival date.
Yachts under 40 ft are considered harder to deliver by sea: they are much slower, and many small boats are not equipped for long passages. Our view differs: there is nothing better than delivering a small, well-kept boat from an owner in the Nordic countries.
Bringing a used yacht from Sweden is the delivery we are asked about most, especially by first-time owners.
Yachts up to 30 ft, and larger ones if their draught allows, can travel through inland canals — some of the most memorable routes. Canal deliveries are quoted individually.
The older the boat, the more carefully she must be accepted and prepared for a delivery by sea. Wear can seriously affect how she copes with the loads ahead, so all equipment and every system are checked and tested with the greatest care.
For brand-new boats collected from the yard, road transport on a specialised truck is often the better fit, ideally arranged by the builder. This is our own view.
We don't offer road transport ourselves — compare it with a delivery by sea: ask us for a free quote.
Our team
WateRoute works with qualified delivery captains and crews matched to each yacht and route. We consider deliveries on many routes.
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