As I note that many CD's for sale are east of me, anyone have info and cost involved in having a one shipped to California?
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transporting the CD
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Bill
Re: transporting the CD
Bobbob wrote: As I note that many CD's for sale are east of me, anyone have info and cost involved in having a one shipped to California?
There is a hauler who lives aboard in our marina and he charges 3 dollars a mile w/o escort and 4 dollars a mile with escort car. We are in Eastern Oklahoma but he does not go west. Im not sure if this fee structure is standard, but he makes money and stays busy, so something must be right.
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Bill
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Jon Larson
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Bill, this is no big deal. Get yourself a copy of Latitude, there's always some ads for boat hauling companies there. If you buy on the east coast, get a copy of Soundings, I used a company that advertised in Soundings that was based in Annapolis to ship my boat from Kingston, NY to Redwood City, CA. No problem. That cost me $3,200, I saved a bundle because I was patient and waited for another boat to come out to the west coast on the same truck.
Call every number of every company you see advertised. Find out if they move boats as a regular thing and if the trucks are set up to properly block a hull and rack a mast. Then negotiate, be flexible, and you'll save yourself a bundle.
Jon Larson
Cape Dory 30 PERI
San Francisco Bay (formerly Poughkeepsie Yacht Club, NY)
jon9@ix.netcom.com
Call every number of every company you see advertised. Find out if they move boats as a regular thing and if the trucks are set up to properly block a hull and rack a mast. Then negotiate, be flexible, and you'll save yourself a bundle.
Jon Larson
Cape Dory 30 PERI
San Francisco Bay (formerly Poughkeepsie Yacht Club, NY)
bob wrote: As I note that many CD's for sale are east of me, anyone have info and cost involved in having a one shipped to California?
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Larry Austin
Re: transporting the CD
Hi Bobbob wrote: As I note that many CD's for sale are east of me, anyone have info and cost involved in having a one shipped to California?
We have been looking for a Cape Dory for about a year now and ended up buying a CD 30 MK II on the east coast about a month ago.
We decided to leave it in dry storage on Long Island (which is driving me crazy, I wish itwere here now!) untill early this spring. We found a boat shipping broker in Florida who told us to get our best price and he would beat the price by 4-45 hundred.
He told us to contact him about a month before we're ready to ship
and that the best deal is to ship two boats on one truck and split the cost. We figure it will cost us about 5-6 thousand. 43-45 hundred for the truck and about 1000 on each for the yard to ready the boat for shipping and setup at this end.
Buy a boat and we'll ship them out together!!! or we'll sail them back!
laustin@pacific.net
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Jon Larson
Re: transporting the CD
Congratulations, Larry and Sharon, on the new boat!
I used A&B Marine Trucking from Annapolis, Md to ship PERI out. The price started at the $4500 level, but we quickly got down to $3200 on a shared truck, as you had mentioned. I did the work at both ends, preparing PERI for shipment and recommissioning her. The costs to lift her onto and later off the truck were around $100 at each end. The costs in Redwood City were a bit more as it had to include the yard stepping the mast (I tuned the rig). I also had their rigger do a complete inspection of the rigging and some other work I had the yard do, like repack the stuffing box (it never needed doing in all the years I had owned PERI, and the old stuff was in good shape!). A friend and I built brackets in the cabin to hold the two booms. I taped down all latches and fastened anything that could bounce loose and the boat arrived in great shape. I had to strip all rigging off the mast for shipment and had the yard help me put all that back on at the San Francisco end. Some bottom paint was worn off by the truck stands, but I had a can of paint at this end and touched up the wear spots as the boat was launched.
I recommend you do a lot of this as you learn the rigging and the boat very well and you can save yourself a bundle. The engine/shaft alignment didn't shift in the least during the trucking, those Alberg designs are tough, so there was no cost to that though I'd sure check that when the boat arrives.
Also make sure you launch the boat here with a good fresh coat of bottom paint, PERI's now been in the water for 2 1/2 years and the paint is still holding up well, according to the diver who cleans the bottom every three months. Either do the painting back east or have it done back there, that way the marina out here can just lift the boat off the truck and put her directly into the water, you save on yard storage costs that way at the San Francisco Bay end.
Jon Larson
Cape Dory 30 PERI
San Francisco Bay
jon9@ix.netcom.com
I used A&B Marine Trucking from Annapolis, Md to ship PERI out. The price started at the $4500 level, but we quickly got down to $3200 on a shared truck, as you had mentioned. I did the work at both ends, preparing PERI for shipment and recommissioning her. The costs to lift her onto and later off the truck were around $100 at each end. The costs in Redwood City were a bit more as it had to include the yard stepping the mast (I tuned the rig). I also had their rigger do a complete inspection of the rigging and some other work I had the yard do, like repack the stuffing box (it never needed doing in all the years I had owned PERI, and the old stuff was in good shape!). A friend and I built brackets in the cabin to hold the two booms. I taped down all latches and fastened anything that could bounce loose and the boat arrived in great shape. I had to strip all rigging off the mast for shipment and had the yard help me put all that back on at the San Francisco end. Some bottom paint was worn off by the truck stands, but I had a can of paint at this end and touched up the wear spots as the boat was launched.
I recommend you do a lot of this as you learn the rigging and the boat very well and you can save yourself a bundle. The engine/shaft alignment didn't shift in the least during the trucking, those Alberg designs are tough, so there was no cost to that though I'd sure check that when the boat arrives.
Also make sure you launch the boat here with a good fresh coat of bottom paint, PERI's now been in the water for 2 1/2 years and the paint is still holding up well, according to the diver who cleans the bottom every three months. Either do the painting back east or have it done back there, that way the marina out here can just lift the boat off the truck and put her directly into the water, you save on yard storage costs that way at the San Francisco Bay end.
Jon Larson
Cape Dory 30 PERI
San Francisco Bay
Larry Austin wrote: Hi Bob
We have been looking for a Cape Dory for about a year now and ended up buying a CD 30 MK II on the east coast about a month ago.
We decided to leave it in dry storage on Long Island (which is driving me crazy, I wish itwere here now!) untill early this spring. We found a boat shipping broker in Florida who told us to get our best price and he would beat the price by 4-45 hundred.
He told us to contact him about a month before we're ready to ship
and that the best deal is to ship two boats on one truck and split the cost. We figure it will cost us about 5-6 thousand. 43-45 hundred for the truck and about 1000 on each for the yard to ready the boat for shipping and setup at this end.
Buy a boat and we'll ship them out together!!! or we'll sail them back!
jon9@ix.netcom.com