Looking to ship a 14ft, 100 lbs boat from South East part of LA to Northern VA. Anyone have experience with shippers pro or con? Anyone have any family they need to visit and want gas money!? Thanks, Dave
Suggestions to ship small boat
- Thread starter Dave Diefenderfer
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Tom Johnson
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If the boat does not need crating, and they can slap a bar code sticker on the hull, many movers will include a boat with other goods. Lots of trucks moving from New England to Florida, and it's easy to add on. Not sure if that fits your area, might be worth checking out vs crating & freight?
The only thing bad about shipping it is that truckers will fill it up with other freight that could possibly damage it. If you ever saw the way dock workers handle freight you just would want to take it yourself. I work in trucking and see alot of damages and claims. My suggestion to you would be to crate it and mark it this end up and fragile. I would pack it where the boat is upside down in the crate just incase they put something on top of it
Lou Tisch
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We crate all our boats in 2x2's & 2x4's and then staple cardboard all around it to keep "prying eyes" off it. I'd post pics of the crating but, like Steve, I still haven't been able to make that thingy work yet.
You might be able to shrink wrap the boat with ethylene foam underneath it.
Give www.freightquote.com a holler. I use them a bunch for our boats and even some ebay items and I'm very pleased with them. They beat even the companies and my discount from over 20 years of shipping boats. My sales rep is Adam Schwartz and I can give you his info if you'd like.
Also mark it with "TOP FREIGHT ONLY".
Let me know if we can be of any service.
Lou
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Robert Stanfield
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I shipped one a few weeks ago to WA it ain't cheap teh normall bat huals will not deal with them becuase there so small and lite and they take up teh room of a regular boat they get more money to hual. I have used Pakmail for teh last few I have sold I take him the boat he wraps in bubble wrap and straps it down on a pallet.
If you can find someone (you trust) driving that way maybe you could pay for there gas an save a bunch of money compared to a shipping company
If you can find someone (you trust) driving that way maybe you could pay for there gas an save a bunch of money compared to a shipping company
M. Paul Gery
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Check out UShip.com I used it to get Bill's 20' Lund from his place to IN where I picked it up. Worked out fairly inexpensively and somewhat painless...