I need to ship a 23 foot powerboat across the country, from New Hampshire to
Oregon. The boat is on a trailer, but I would prefer to have it trucked or
rail shipped. Anyone with any recommendations, hints, or places to avoid?
Any ball park of what this might cost? If it's much over $2000 I will
probably just bag the idea. I have googled "boat transport", but I'm more
interested in "real world" experiences.

thanks in advance,

Mike

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:11:35 -0800, "Mike"
wrote:

I need to ship a 23 foot powerboat across the country, from New Hampshire
to
Oregon. The boat is on a trailer, but I would prefer to have it trucked or
rail shipped. Anyone with any recommendations, hints, or places to avoid?
Any ball park of what this might cost? If it's much over $2000 I will
probably just bag the idea. I have googled "boat transport", but I'm more
interested in "real world" experiences.

It's going to cost you considerably more than $2000 no matter how you
ship it - even towing it unless you do it yourself and even then, it's
going to be close.

Yep. That is a minimum 2,500 mile trip and both gasoline and diesel prices
are now rising.

Mike wrote:
I need to ship a 23 foot powerboat across the country, from New Hampshire to
Oregon. The boat is on a trailer, but I would prefer to have it trucked or
rail shipped. Anyone with any recommendations, hints, or places to avoid?
Any ball park of what this might cost? If it's much over $2000 I will
probably just bag the idea. I have googled "boat transport", but I'm more
interested in "real world" experiences.

thanks in advance,

Mike



If that was up here, I'd try to find out what companies have 18 wheelers
heading back west empty after delivering goods.
I'm sure at least one trucker would welcome the opportunity to make
$500.00 or so on that long boring trip.

Don White wrote:
Mike wrote:

I need to ship a 23 foot powerboat across the country, from New
Hampshire to
Oregon. The boat is on a trailer, but I would prefer to have it
trucked or
rail shipped. Anyone with any recommendations, hints, or places to avoid?
Any ball park of what this might cost? If it's much over $2000 I will
probably just bag the idea. I have googled "boat transport", but I'm more
interested in "real world" experiences.

thanks in advance,

Mike



If that was up here, I'd try to find out what companies have 18 wheelers
heading back west empty after delivering goods.
I'm sure at least one trucker would welcome the opportunity to make
$500.00 or so on that long boring trip.

(1) No commercial truck drives that far in ANY direction empty.
(2) Flat beds are harder to find than dry vans and are at a premium ($$).
(3) A flat bed would have to be able to haul the boat and trailer. If
the boat isn't too tall it may be too wide. If the whole thing does fit
on a flatbed trailer, the logistics of loading and unloading would be a
huge concern ($$).

If you have time, you might be able to find someone driving a large
pickup to that area but you would still have to expect to shell out at
least a grand to cover the hassle and additional fuel expense.

Selling it and buying new later might be worth it.

Dan

For the sake of space, lets just condense your reply to: ($$)
JR

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go to our website send me an email, and i will try to get you the best
rate possible

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Thanks,

Just be sure not to pay them the full amount until you throughly inspect your
boat on
arrival. I missed some damage which American Boat Transport refused to pay for.

Check with boat dealers at your destination and departure points to see who they

deal with.

Mike wrote:

I need to ship a 23 foot powerboat across the country, from New Hampshire to
Oregon. The boat is on a trailer, but I would prefer to have it trucked or
rail shipped. Anyone with any recommendations, hints, or places to avoid?
Any ball park of what this might cost? If it's much over $2000 I will
probably just bag the idea. I have googled "boat transport", but I'm more
interested in "real world" experiences.

thanks in advance,

Mike

"sherwindu" wrote in message
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Just be sure not to pay them the full amount until you throughly inspect
your
boat on
arrival. I missed some damage which American Boat Transport refused to
pay for.


Thanks for reminding me of the name of that transport company - "American
Boat Transport".

During one of my many trips to and from Florida I, was cruising along, doing
about 70 on RT 95 when I saw a semi pulling onto the highway from an
entrance ramp. The flat bed was loading with a big - probably 35-40 foot
sailboat. I remember it had a blue hull. The boat looked huge on the truck
which had wide load signs on it but no escort.

About 2 miles further on down the road this rig blew by me doing close to
90. A couple of cars were ahead of it and the rig's driver started pulling
on the air horn to get them to move out of the way.
One didn't and the driver had to lock up all the trailer brakes, vaporized
rubber smoke bellowing everywhere, horn blasting and trailer with the boat
swaying all over the road. Quite a sight with this big, heavy sailboat
strapped high on the trailer because of the boat's keel. By this time I had
caught up to it again in the granny lane and headed for the breakdown lane,
fully expecting a major wreck in the making. The offending car quickly got
out of the way and the truck continued on, accelerating back to a crazy
speed and weaving back and forth around traffic until it was out of sight
again. It was such a demonstration of reckless driving that I took note of
the name of the company - American Boat Transport - intending to give them a
call. But then, I forgot the name. I would not use that company to ship a
rowboat.

BTW, the driver was a woman.

RCE

RCE wrote:
"sherwindu" wrote in message
...

Just be sure not to pay them the full amount until you throughly inspect
your
boat on
arrival. I missed some damage which American Boat Transport refused to
pay for.



Thanks for reminding me of the name of that transport company - "American
Boat Transport".

During one of my many trips to and from Florida I, was cruising along, doing
about 70 on RT 95 when I saw a semi pulling onto the highway from an
entrance ramp. The flat bed was loading with a big - probably 35-40 foot
sailboat. I remember it had a blue hull. The boat looked huge on the truck
which had wide load signs on it but no escort.

About 2 miles further on down the road this rig blew by me doing close to
90. A couple of cars were ahead of it and the rig's driver started pulling
on the air horn to get them to move out of the way.
One didn't and the driver had to lock up all the trailer brakes, vaporized
rubber smoke bellowing everywhere, horn blasting and trailer with the boat
swaying all over the road. Quite a sight with this big, heavy sailboat
strapped high on the trailer because of the boat's keel. By this time I had
caught up to it again in the granny lane and headed for the breakdown lane,
fully expecting a major wreck in the making. The offending car quickly got
out of the way and the truck continued on, accelerating back to a crazy
speed and weaving back and forth around traffic until it was out of sight
again. It was such a demonstration of reckless driving that I took note of
the name of the company - American Boat Transport - intending to give them a
call. But then, I forgot the name. I would not use that company to ship a
rowboat.

BTW, the driver was a woman.

RCE



Probably held up getting the sailboat loaded & dying to makeup time.