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. The bow and stern had an extra 2 layers of wrap. Each layer was individually taped, it took quite a while to free the boat. On the outside were a couple of fragile and top load only stickers. I believe it was $283 to ship it from california to massachusetts. I picked it up at the truck terminal - saving some delivery charges. The boat also came with a cover. I haven't closely examined the cover but it's got a full length zipper The outer layer is a woven silver fabric with about 1/2 centimeter wide "strips" making up the weave. The full length zipper cover is sooo much nicer to put on than the terry cloth sock style cover I have on my old surf ski. Kirk -- Kirk Olsen kork4_at_cluemail.com *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
On Thu, 8 May 2003, Patrick Maun wrote: > 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. [snip] we took our 18'6" tandem canoe from denver to utah [700 mile round trip] for a paddling trip, big, bright red canoe on top of my wife's lemon yellow 1973 vw beetle. everyone stared at us as we crossed all the passes. wished i could find one of the pictures to scan for you!! markz -- #------canoeist[at]dotzen[dot]org------ckayakr[at]dotzen[dot]org---- o, o__ o_/| o_. o__/ </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ [\/ (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') `\--------/--------/' #~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May the Lord grant me a sword and no need to use it. -- Czech Proverb *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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