If anyone is interested I have a picture of my Millennium as it was packed and shipped from Finland. They used lots of bubble wrap and various boxes. It arrived without a scratch though I can't say that much for the trees along the residential block the semi delivered the boat to. I also have a fun picture of this 18.2" boat on a new Volkswagen Beetle. Let me know if you'd like a copy. One idea for shipping a boat I got from watching the movers pack our stuff when we moved from the Netherlands. The mover packed my bike using that thin tape-like plastic packing strip, the kind paper and boxes are often wrapped with. He used the plastic to suspend the bike from all four sides of the box so that the bike "hovered" in the box - not actually touching the sides. Just wrapped the plastic strip around parts of the frame, punched a hole through the box, pulled taunt and tied a knot. Seems like something like this and lots of bubble wrap might work for a kayak as well. Won't help in the case of a fork lift fork through the box, but it might help if things get dropped. -Patrick At 10:47 AM -0500 5/8/03, Kirk Olsen wrote: >A while back there was a thread on shipping boats. > >I just picked up a new boat this morning. > >The boat arrived via Yellow Frieght. It was triple wrapped in white >packing wrap, not bubble wrap but the thin bendable white foam. [SNIP] *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 10:05:20 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:06 PDT