Yacht delivery, captain services, purchase expertise, own boat tuition, expedition and bluewater preparations, seasonal management — for owners who require the highest professional standard.
NMS provides professional delivery and captain services for private yacht owners, shipyards, and charter operators — for monohulls and multihulls, motor and sailing vessels, including demanding passages, worldwide.
We take time to understand each owner’s expectations before every passage. Our aim is to make every contract straightforward: clear scope, transparent pricing, and a delivery carried out with the same care you would give your vessel yourself.
Operating throughout the Atlantic, Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Pacific, NMS is the specialist of choice for owners and builders who require captain and crew with the qualifications, miles, and technical depth to match — not only experts in navigation, but also highly skilled in mechanics and diagnostics, capable of anticipating and addressing problems before they become passages.
Full service offering
NMS offers a full spectrum of professional maritime services, from single-passage deliveries to purchase consultancy, personal coaching, and seasonal management.
An experienced Master with surveying training identifies issues invisible to an untrained eye — frequently saving significant sums.
Learn more →Personalised training on your own vessel, from basic seamanship to offshore passages and round-the-world preparation. English or French.
Learn more →Professional delivery of sailing and motor vessels on passages of any length — fully crewed, insured, and documented.
Learn more →An experienced professional skipper for private passages, owner-aboard voyages, transoceanic crossings, and seasonal repositioning.
Learn more →Collection and delivery of new yachts from shipyards. Handover management, sea trials, and full commissioning checklist verification.
Learn more →Flexible professional support for owners without a full-time crew: repositioning, shipyard coordination, and technical oversight for agreed periods.
Learn more →Service in detail
An impartial, technically rigorous assessment by a qualified Master with marine surveying training. Before you buy, before you sign, before you sail.
A pre-purchase assessment by NMS covers the full picture: hull condition and structure, rig, engine and mechanical systems, electrical installation, electronics, safety gear, sails, and documentation. The aim is not simply to list defects, but to give you a clear and honest reading of the vessel’s condition, its maintenance history, and what to expect in the next season or offshore passage.
NMS can coordinate and oversee all remedial work, manage contractors, shipyard periods, preparation of the vessel for a specific season or passage — Ensuring readiness of the vessel including spare parts, chart folios, and safety equipment.
Over 25 years at sea in professional command, across the Atlantic, Caribbean, Pacific, and Mediterranean. Qualified to MCA Master 200 GT Unlimited. IIMS Marine Surveying qualification in progress. Trilingual: English, French, Spanish.
Service in detail
Professional coaching on your own vessel, tailored to your level, your boat, and your objectives. From first passages to offshore preparation and round-the-world programmes.
For new or recent owners who want to build confidence on their own vessel, understand their systems, and develop safe, competent seamanship.
For experienced day sailors preparing for their first offshore passages or crossings. Structured, methodical, demanding when necessary.
For owners planning major crossings or extended voyaging programmes. Thorough, technical, grounded in real offshore experience.
For owners who want to genuinely understand and manage their vessel’s mechanical and electrical systems — essential for bluewater independence.
Over 25 years in professional command and offshore sailing. Extensive experience as a passage-making skipper across the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific. Trilingual English, French, Spanish. Own boat tuition aboard your vessel, at your pace.
Delivery programmes
Crew qualifications are matched to passage complexity. Every NMS delivery — coastal or ocean — is held to the same protocols and standards of care.
Up to about 600 nm ·
600+ nm · Open ocean · Larger vessels · Complex or demanding vessels
Note: regardless of distance, any vessel that is technically complex, carries significant systems, or is of unusual configuration may be classified as an Ocean delivery at NMS’s discretion.
Delivery protocol
Every NMS delivery follows the same structured protocol, from initial contact to condition report at destination.
On joining the vessel, NMS crew conduct a full systems check against a 100-point checklist — pushpit to pulpit, bilge to masthead. Vulnerable woodwork and upholstery are encased in protective cladding. Spreaders are wrapped to prevent sail chafe on downwind passages. Any non-serviceable item is reported immediately to be rectified before departure when practical.
NMS crews sail 24 hours a day on ocean passages, maintaining a structured watch system. The skipper’s judgment at sea is never overridden. When conditions warrant seeking shelter, the yacht heads for port — we sail conservatively and never over-stress rigs, sails, or engines. Owners receive regular progress updates.
The skipper completes a detailed condition and systems report covering the full passage and the vessel’s state on arrival. Any issues noted during delivery are documented. The vessel is left clean and secure. Owners receive a comprehensive dossier including the logbook, condition report, and maintenance notes for follow-up.
Protocols & Standards
Our pre-departure and in-passage protocols are derived from commercial maritime standards and refined over many years of offshore delivery experience. Non-exhaustive lists.
Operating zones
NMS operates throughout the Atlantic, Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Pacific. Our skippers have direct, current knowledge of conditions, regulations, and clearance requirements in each zone.
Exumas, Abacos, Turks & Caicos. USCG-compliant passages. Customs and cruising permit expertise.
BVI, USVI, Grenada, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St Martin. Inter-island deliveries and seasonal repositioning.
Eastbound and westbound. Canaries and Cape Verde passages. Caribbean / Europe. Shipyard deliveries from South and North Europe.
Western and Eastern Med. France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia. Shipyard deliveries from Atlantic and North Europe.
From one ocean to the next — and back. Panama Canal transits, US Pacific Coast, Polynesia, Hawaii, South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia…
High latitudes, Indian Ocean, East Africa, South Atlantic. Complex or long-haul repositioning programmes evaluated case by case.
Qualifications & certifications
NMS selected captains and crews hold internationally recognised commercial certifications across multiple flag states, combined with full STCW compliance and engineering qualifications rarely found in the delivery sector.
“Our yacht was delivered in immaculate condition, with a thorough technical report that identified two minor issues we weren’t aware of. The pre-departure protocol was exactly what we’d hoped for — professional, systematic, and reassuring.”
Get in touch
Whether you need a delivery, a captain, a pre-purchase assessment, or a tuition programme — contact us with your details and we’ll respond with a clear scope and a transparent quote, usually within 48 hours.
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