How we relocated our floating family home down the North Sea

Delivering a boat is easier with your own crew, but when the boat is a family’s 35ft home, the stakes (and the stress) are much higher

When you’re asked to take any boat from A to B, it’s always easier if you can do it with your own trusted people on board. This wasn’t an option on this job because Halcyon Oak was the home of Sim, Jo and Lottie, who I had met while visiting my sister Pat in Cambridgeshire.

The family lived on their 35ft wooden Inchcape motor sailer in Upware Marina...