About us: Yacht Delivery Company - Pinnacle Pacific

Pinnacle Pacific is committed to providing a high quality delivery service for power and yacht deliveries around New Zealand and the Pacific. We have a small, professional, maritime qualified team with a wide range of skills and we pick the best staff for each delivery.

We work together with the owner or their agent to properly prepare the vessel and crew for the voyage and will not compromise on safety.

We believe in proper advance planning, including the provision of a trip plan to the owner or agent before departing and complete a comprehensive post-trip report.

John and Catherine are the owners of Pinnacle Pacific. In 2002, we started a water taxi and general charter business in the Marlborough Sounds and quickly established a reputation for outstanding service.

We also responded to requests to deliver vessels around the top half of the South Island and realised there is potential to offer a professional, well resourced power and yacht delivery service.

We have established a pool of professional mariners who have experience in coastal New Zealand deliveries as well as deliveries to and from countries including Australia, Fiji, Vanuatu and Tahiti.

The team includes two marine engineers who have wide-ranging experience, from recreational vessels to commercial ships.

The Crew

John Beavon

Pinnacle Pacific is a new entity set up by John Beavon and Catherine Coates. Until recently, we successfully operated Pelorus Water Transport. Pinnacle Pacific is our new venture, aimed at providing companies and owners with a high quality vessel delivery service, using qualified mariners with relevant experience.

John de Boer

John de Boer is a highly experienced and qualified mariner. He has delivered boats all over the Pacific and to New Zealand and is an active yachtsman. John is currently employed in the maritime sector and has senior professional dive qualifications. He has raced and cruised on yachts for the last 25 years and covered in excess of 30,000 nautical miles. He is a member of cruising clubs and associations in New Zealand and overseas and has held a variety of positions including Past Deputy Coxswain (off-shore) of the Sumner Lifeboat Institute, Past Vice Commodore of the Canterbury Trailer Yacht Squadron and Past Rear Commodore of the Naval Point Club Lyttelton

Kelly Bryant

Kelly has a wealth of sailing experience in New Zealand and overseas and is now extending that experience to powered vessels from a water taxi to a luxury charter launch.

Kelly is a experienced and registered nurse and mid-wife with first hand knowledge of what is required from a medical point of view at sea.

Matt Beavon

Matt began his maritime career as a deckhand on one of the Amaltal deep sea fishing vessels that operated in the Southern Ocean and several other skippers wanted him as crew. When he left the fishing industry Matt became a full-time professional fire-fighter. Matt has since gained his commercial diver certificate of competency and works with a fire and safety training company delivering fire training, rescue team drills and providing a commercial diving service to visiting ships, as well as water canal inspections. He is a qualified high angle rescue operator (abseiling).

Mark Gibbs

Mark has been boating for 35 years, both cruising and racing, and is currently employed as Operations Manager for a local boat maintenance company. He is responsible for the safe slipping and oversight of the maintenance of more than 100 commercial and recreational vessels every year.

Mark has raced a wide range of yachts in harbour and offshore events, primarily out of mainly out of Waikawa (Picton), Wellington and Nelson. This experience includes participating in the New Zealand Coastal Classic. He has successfully completed several yacht deliveries around both the North and South Island.

Bob Dunn

Bob has worked as a marine engineer for over 25 years on a wide variety of large cargo ships around New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere, before coming ashore and setting up his own marine engineering business for commercial and recreational vessels, including mussel harvesters.

Bob is now based in Havelock and Picton with a loyal customer base and works on diesel engines including Detroit, Gardner, Cummins, Perkins, Ford and Yanmar.

Darryl Jones

Darryl owns and operates a marine engineering business in the Marlborough region with a loyal base of commercial and recreational customers. He is experienced in working on a wide range of diesels including Gardner, GM, Detroit and large ship diesel engines.

Darryl has over 15 years experience working on a wide range of commercial ships including the Inter-island rail ferries for which he holds a Watch-Keeping Officers certificate of competency for diesel engines up to 5000HP and a watch-keeping certificate for diesel engines over 7000HP.