The Boat Whisperer
Your boat. Our skills. Your success.
Inside Overlap guides and trains owners to effectively and efficiently use, maintain and maximize your boating experience. Let our five decades of boatbuilding, sailing and technology experience maximize your enjoyment and experience on the water.
Services
Systems Selection, Maintenance & Training
Chartplotter, AIS, radar, what’s the best to use? When should I have my autopilot follow a planned route, compass heading or apparent wind?
Personal on-water coaching on effective integrated use of the sophisticated and complex systems on their boats
Analysis and Consulting on prioritizing, delivering and managing system integration, upgrades and replacement
Boat Handling Training
How can I back into my slip with no bow thruster? Want to go through Woods Hole, but currents are tricky?
On-Water coaching for boat handling skills, making use of all available systems – your boat, our experience.
On-Water coaching for navigational training – your system, your boat, our skill.
Consulting services for trip planning. A lifetime spent in New England waters, we will help you confidently plan and enjoy your boat ownership.
Delivery
Have you recently purchased a yacht? Do you need to get your boat to a regatta or other event? Would you like to move it to follow the seasons?
If looking for a short delivery, we have the ability to quickly respond to your needs in and around New England.
Short and long trip delivery ability. We have a team to deliver yachts from Maine to the Caribbean, and all points in between.
Refit & Maintenance Management
Day-of haul or launch services
Assistance with winterizing and spring commissioning
End of season assessments to plan for off-season upgrades and repairs.
Program management of complex multi-vendor refit or repair projects.
Extensive experience in the tech world managing very complex multi-vendor, very high dollar value programs enable us to balance time, budget and deliverables for maximum satisfaction.
Rates
Our fees are founded on a base rate of $125 per hour.
We offer discounts for both volume, and for long-term partnership, as follows. Travel to and from your boat is included.
Day Rates
Half-day - $450
Day - $800
Partnership Rates
Training/Advising - $1,200 retainer
Decremented as used in $400 half day increments
Expires 12 months from purchase
Delivery Rates
Short Range (less than 24 hours en route) - Priced in half day increments
Priced in $400 half day increments
Ian Duff - $400/half day
Additional crew, as needed - $300/half day
First half day payable in advance
Long Range (24/7 day, greater than 24 hours en route) - Priced in full 24/7 day increments
Ian Duff - $500/24 hour day
Additional crew, as needed - $400/24 hour day
First day payable in advance
Testimonials
We’re proud of our reputation, but don’t take our word for it:
“Ian was invaluable on my recently purchased Hylas 49, both on delivering her from Sint Maarten to Portsmouth RI, and on helping me understand and optimize her systems. Everything from showing me how to do weather routing on the trip home, to fixing rigging issues. Ian’s diverse boatbuilding and racing sailing background enabled him to help with mechanical, electrical, sailing techniques, and preventative maintenance issues. I’m happy to have Ian on my team as I continue to master my new boat.”
Hylas 49
Blue Water Cruiser
49’ LOA
14’ 6” beam
6’ 3” draft
32,000 lb
New Purchase
Delivery
Systems Repair and Training
“I recently had the pleasure of delivering a yacht from the southern Caribbean to Rhode Island with Ian. His experience and skills came into play in a huge way to keep our delivery on track and safe and direct and enjoyable. I was extremely happy to have him onboard with us and I will definitely seek him out for future yacht delivery help. I was extremely impressed by what he offered to the boating experience. ”
Yacht Delivery Captain
200 Ton USCG Captain
200,000 sea miles
Caribbean to New England Delivery
About Us
Inside Overlap - A tactical advantage in sailboat racing, gained by strategic planning.
Over 50 years of boating experience: building, racing, & coaching
Design and Build
Family heritage of the Edey & Duff boatbuilding family, including hands-on building on the order of 110 boats.
Studied Ocean Engineering at the University of Glasgow, draftsman for multihull designer Dick Newick.
Loftsman, QA Inspector and Supervisor at General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding during building of five Bobo-class Maritime Prepositioning Ships
Certifications
USCG 100 Ton Master
US Sailing-certified Level 1 Instructor, Level 2 Race Coach, Club Race Officer
SSI certified Open Water SCUBA diver
FAA Licensed private pilot
Audi Club Winter Driving School Instructor
Sea Time
Raced and cruised with family on three successive keelboats, Soverel 33, Soverel 39 and Aerodyne 43
Bermuda Race crew
Buzzards Bay Regatta official
Laser campaign, in events from Virginia to Quebec
Commercial offshore sea scalloper
Technology
43 years in the technology sector, as both business executive and as consultant. Technologies included networking, information security, business process automation, data center operations and cloud computing, in the telecommunications, banking and financial services, professional services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and consumer packaged goods sectors.
