The cost of moving a boat

[tuco]

Does anyone out there know who we should contact to move a boat? We have seen boats less expensive in California, Texas, Florida and other coastal states than we have seen here in Utah. ($5000-$15000 less) What I am wondering is will we end up spending just as much moving the boat to Utah? We would like to contact some boat moving companies to find out. Any help will be greatly appriciated.

Thanks, The Gianfelice''s

[barefootsailing]

http://www.boattraderonline.com/services.html?transport

I got a quote from them, seemed very reasonable.
Steve
s/v Barefoot

[DonFoley]

I moved a boat last year, and most of the quotes I got were in the same range. Bottom line turned out to be just over a dollar a mile. In fact, when I was thinking about changing my location for delivery down the road a bit more, they said ''no problem, each extra hundred miles is a hundred dollars.''

My boat has an 11'' beam, so they had to pay extra road fees. It''s 34'' long with a 4.2'' draft and runs around 12,000 lbs. The run from north georgia to south florida cost $1,100 for a 900 mile trip.

There''s the extra costs too. For me..., $160 for the haul out, $180 to pay someone to decomission the boat (you can do this yourself if you know what you''re doing, I didn''t have the time to do it by myself, so I paid an experienced rigger to help me out for a few hours). The haul in was $150 and I wasn''t there when the boat was delivered, so I paid a rigger $500 to put the mast back up, tune the rigging and put on the sails and replace all my mast lights.

I imagine costs are going to vary all over the country, but that was my experience. I found that many folks just run a storefront operation and have a list of boat movers they call for a job. My boat insurance agent said that my policy would cover any damage, fortunately there wasn''t any.

[dnr]

DonFoley,
Excellent information. Turns out the $1,100 delivery almost doubled when all costs were considered. If you had to pay full fare for decommission, it would have more than doubled. Yachtworld and the like makes it possible to shop all over the country with ease, but full cost must be accounted for. I''m currently shopping for a boat to keep in Florida. There are some nice great lakes boats that I am considering, but will incur $4k to $5k to get them there over land. If I had the time, it would be great to sail one south, but that is not in my schedule.

[Jeff_H]

There are a lot of variables. I shipped a 38 footer with a 12 foot beam (no special fees if the beam is 12 feet or less) from Maine to Maryland. I got a lot of prices all over the place. In my case I used a hydraulic trailer that could pick the boat up where she sat and save the loading costs.

If you can piggy back with another run. It saved about $1200 to have a boat making part of the return trip. I beleive my shipping costs were roughly $2100, which included half of the deadhead. Stepping the mast was roughly $200 but I had did all of the assembly, pinning, tapping, tuning, replacing light bulbs and adding new spreader lights and wiring myself.

I found that the cost of shipping within the US was not an issue if you were looking for a specific type of boat and you found a good price. Air fare and long distance added up as well ($350).

Jeff

[harvh]

I moved a 36'' from Floriday to Seattle for a cost of about $6,300. Figure another $1,500 for decommisioning and recommisioning. I did save allot of money on the purchase price, but I have also had to replace allot of items due to the Florida sun.