Shipping a Passport 40 - Anyone done it?

[mariner3302]

I am looking to ship my boat from Poulsbo, WA to Morehead City, NC. I have never shipped a boat. Does anyone have experience with shipping these specific boats?

[Michael Moradzadeh]

I have shipped Cayenne, a Passport 40, repeatedly from Hawaii to Oakland or Long Beach, the latter requiring a freeway trip of several hundred miles.

While your trip is clearly a land one (probably), the following points may apply:

1.  You need a trailer.  These can be rented.  I work with a freight forwarder named Kevin Jones (Kevco, info below) who handles everything.  Another company who comes well-recommended but I have not used is  Dudley Trucking in your neck of the woods.
2.  You will obviously want to prepare the boat for shipping.  Mast down, dodger off, STRIP THE CANVAS OFF.  Tape a soda can to each end of the mast.  If it's crushed, your mast got bonked.
3.  Buy eight tie-down straps at Home Depot.  Say goodbye to them, the truckers will keep them.  You are looking for the wide yellow ones that say "DOT"  Write your boat's name on them so they will know who they stole them from.
4.  Go below.  Secure everything.  The boat will get rattled and jiggled around a lot.  So loose things will scratch and chafe.  If you stored spars or stuff below, wrap it up good.
5.  Prepare the mast for shipping.  A boatyard can do this for several hundred dollars.  Isolate (pad) the standing rigging from the mast so the jiggling does not scratch it up.  Remove your antenna and stuff (see bonk note above)
6.  The Passport 40 should ship on Interstate highways just fine, but is "wide" and so will need a trailing "wide load" car.  I doubt they will let you volunteer for that.  This could be costly.  It may be more cost-effective to ship by water (with the boat prepared for trailer, it can go as ro-ro (roll on/roll off).  Good question for Kevin, who knows the boat.

I have used Matson for water shipping.  Pasha is good too.  I do not know who serves your desired port.  You might end up, if shipping by water, going from Seattle or Vancouver BC to Florida or the Bahamas.  Oh no!  What a nightmare.

Shipping from Oahu to SF costs me about $17-20k

Michael

contact for kevin

 Call Kevin Jones @ 
KEVCO Boat & Yacht Shipping
Phone: (714) 957-1602
Fax: (714) 957-1602
Cell: (714) 404-3852
email: TheBoa...@netzero.net

On 2/3/2013 8:04 AM, mariner3302 wrote:

I am looking to ship my boat from Poulsbo, WA to Morehead City, NC. I have never shipped a boat. Does anyone have experience with shipping these specific boats? --
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[mariner3302]

Wow!! Thanks! That's great info for me. I really appreciate it!

[robert c young]

This is a really good example of what should be stored on a website. If I knew how to do it, I would volunteer but there must be someone in the Passport family that could do it in their sleep….

[Michael Moradzadeh]

I think this is the month to do it.

If we have three volunteers, we could get a bunch of stuff trolled out of our excellent mailing list.

I also, before they deleted it, made a complete archive copy of the old mailing list.

FIrst article is here.   http://passportyachts.org/ship-a-passport


Who's up for it?

Michael

[louis raphael]

I think I'm missing something.  Don't need 3 volunteers when Google has done the work already.
Doesn't the link:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/PassportOwners
show the topics discussed in the forums.
There is also a search engine to look for specific topics within Passport list, and more universally within many forums.

Louis

[Michael Moradzadeh]

That is indeed a good resource, and if one is willing to parse through and have a topic or question in mind, it's great

On the other hand, there is a lot of chaff among that wheat, and no highlighting of prescriptive or cautionary advice ('Notice to passport owners, you can prevent swelling by...")

The concept is to harvest the nuggets.

M

[d.bri...@verizon.net]

We shipped our P-40, Good Move, from Seattle to Los Angeles ten years ago using Associated Boat Transport, 800-347-1198.  Believe they move boats all around the country.  We had a very good experience, and at a reasonable price.

From Dan Brinkman

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[Eva]

.... whom ever you choose - just don't let it be Wilmington Transports as they dragged Bellavias keel on I-5 !!!!

eva

Carpe Diem,

Milton and Eva
S/V Bellavia   _/)
Passport 40'
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/Bellavia

[Michael Moradzadeh]

Oh come on now, we have all bottomed out from time to time.

[ga...@sailsidetrack.com]

We shipped our P42 to Seattle from Mexico using Dudley and I think they did a pretty good job.  Speaking of hitting bottom, there is one thing I wish I had done before the boat was picked up in Mazatlan.....take a close look at the bulkhead attachments.  Some months later I noticed some separation cracks where some of the bulkheads attach to the hull.  I don’t know if these were caused by the truck trip or if they were already there (it was a new purchase.......I had not noticed them and our survey did not mention them).  In order to lower the height of the load, they lowered the trailer as much as possible so it was just inches off the roadway and I would be surprised if there was any “spring” left in the suspension.

Gary Wilson

P42 Sidetrack

 

From: Michael Moradzadeh

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