On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:02:46 EDT, Needfreed_at_wmconnect.com said: > I may be selling my Prijon Kodiak and would appreciate advice on shipping > it in the continental states. All I know from my previous shipping > experience is > that it'll be an LTL shipment. > > 1) Is securely wrapping it in heavy duty foam and designating "top load > only" acceptable? I've seen boats shipped that way before, but I talked to a > guy (probably in the goober category) at a local trucking outfit who seemed > to think > it should be crated. I recently got a new surf ski shipped from southern california to Massachusetts. I posted about this then, but you are new to the list... The surf ski is 21' long and weighed 32 pounds before packaging. It cost $281 to ship via Yellow Freight and I picked it up at the terminal. It was wrapped in a tyvek/foam cover (which I had purchased) plus 3 individual wraps of heavy white packing foam. Then the whole beast was wrapped with plastic wrap. Each layer of packing foam was individually taped. The boat was shipped as top freight only and had been insured. It arrived unscathed. It looked like a giant marijauna joint There was an alternative shipper called something like "independent canoe haulers" which charges more, but it's a trucker who just delivers canoes and kayaks. I had prefered to use him but he left the west coast the week before my boat was ready to ship. My quick pathetic web search didn't locate them. Others may know more. Before deciding on that boat I looked into getting a boat shipped from Hawaii. The Hawaiian manufacturer ships the boats in a shipping crate. 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jun 03 2003 - 07:35:33 PDT
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