Professional delivery captains
Selection considers appropriate certification, relevant vessel and route experience, references and previous performance. The appointed captain retains command and responsibility for onboard decisions.
About North Star Marine
Maritime experience.
A managed approach.
A yacht relocation deserves more than a crew list. It needs capable people aboard, considered support ashore and someone responsible for connecting the whole operation.
Why North Star exists
Built around the work.
Not just the passage.
North Star Marine brings delivery, shoreside passage support, shipping coordination and new-build yacht handover into one managed service. Owners and commercial partners have a clear point of contact from the initial brief to the final handover.
The business is led by a professional mariner with 17 years of experience spanning competitive sailing, ocean delivery and fleet management. That background includes delivery passages across the South Indian and Atlantic oceans and through the Mediterranean, alongside the day-to-day responsibility of managing yachts.
Our approach reflects what those assignments demand: sound judgement, care for the vessel and practical arrangements that hold together when conditions change.
The people behind the operation
A team selected
for your assignment.
We work through a network of career delivery captains and relevant shoreside specialists. The team, qualifications and support are matched to the yacht, route and scope—not selected from a generic crew list.
Connected operational support
Our shore operation coordinates weather information, passage progress, communications and arrival arrangements. Agents, contractors and specialist input are brought in where the assignment requires them.
Care that leaves a record
Protection of finishes, conservative handling, machinery-hour records and maintenance against the applicable manufacturer schedule form part of the delivery brief, supported by condition photographs and arrival reports.
Visibility and clear authority
Tracking and agreed updates connect you with the operation, subject to communications coverage. Material defects, programme changes and additional expenditure are reported through an agreed approval process.
A broad maritime background
Experience across yachts,
oceans and responsibilities.
Across our team and delivery-captain network, combined career experience exceeds one million nautical miles and 100 years of professional maritime work. These are collective career totals, including work before North Star Marine—not a claim that every passage was completed by this company.
That experience spans sail and motor yachts, monohulls and multihulls. We coordinate suitable assignments globally for yachts up to 35 metres, with our head office in Cape Town.
See how that experience is put to workBefore you appoint us
Ask the questions
that matter.
Ask us about the proposed captain’s relevant experience, the yacht-care brief, reporting arrangements and the boundaries of the appointment. Your proposal should make clear who is doing the work, what is included and what still needs confirmation.
North Star coordinates yacht shipping with third-party carriers; we are not the carrier. Independent surveys, certification and insurance decisions remain with the appropriately appointed professionals.
Discuss your yacht with our teamLet’s talk about your yacht.
Start with the broad outline. We’ll help establish the right next step.