UNTIL NOW! (reader must have read previous post for dramatic effect) Do you want to know what it takes to ship a 44 foot boat cross country by truck?
No you don’t.
We’ve enlisted a rigger to take down the mast & rigging (the pulpits, stanchions, wheel, and radar post all had to go as well), a trucker who specializes in sailboat trucking and who will pull permits in every state he crosses, a petroleum tank sanitizer (to clean the bilge and whose price doubled when he saw the gunk in the bottom), the coast guard to get her documented (she has been considered a US Navy combatant vessel up to this point), and boat yards on both ends to deliver & receive her.
I’m tired just writing about it. And then, of course, they all have to be timed perfectly, so one doesn’t slow down the others. So we anxiously await her arrival. Like expectant parents, the due date is set (And then gets delayed with unexpected expenses and delays. That’s kind of like child birth, right?). For the moment, we're planning on April 19th.
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