I met this company through u ship but here's his contact info. Herb brought my boat from Long Island NY to Bellingham. Awesome service. He mentioned that it was too bad i didn't Google his company as I could have avoided u ship and he would have deducted some of the fee that u ship took from him.
http://www.hdtransportservice.com/
Just used Caj Flynn (Flynn Marine) to move my new 28'er from NJ to Blaine. They were great to work with, delivered on time and at the price agreed upon. Couldn't be happier
Congrats, beautiful boat.Although this post is somewhat dated, I recently purchased a boat in NY and found a transport company to tow-behind on its own trailer, and thought there might be some points of interest to the forum. I sold a beloved Pursuit 2470 WA a few years ago, and the replacement was not to my liking or my wife's, so time to get Pursuit #4 which is a 2020 DC 266 with little use.
I understand the valid warnings about how UShip do little to qualify their drivers, and if you create a shipment listing, many less experienced transporters along with a few experienced guys will bid, and each will have to pay the 20% of the fee to UShip. Well.... I listed for about 2 days and only had transporters who had little experience respond, and meanwhile I looked on thehulltruth.com and found dozens of good shipping companies referred by the forum and called a few. I learned for cross country trips, they will all be about the same price for the east-to-west trip, but if they have a west-to-east trip arranged, they will be cheaper. I fortunately found an experienced transporter who had a trip from Portland, OR to Maine on his calendar, and he was looking for a east-to-west and gave me a good deal. Further, this transporter was active in the boat trailer business and made adjustments to my recently purchased new trailer that helped support the load much better than the boat dealer who initially adjusted my trailer did, brought a few spare wheels/tires, lots of tools and other contingencies. I also wanted a trailer with electric over hydraulic (EOH) and could not find one, and this transporter purchased the Hydrostar unit and installed it for a reasonable price. Before boat left NY, transporter supervised the shrink wrap to ensure it was tight enough, as evidently the west bound trip has lots of headwinds and crosswinds that cause wrap to billow and damage gel coat.
The transporter I used did a great job, was good in his communication, handy in his trailer adjustments and installation of EOH, and had a very fair price. His name is David Wilks of Alden Marine and I would without any reservation use him again.
Below are some photos of boat in my driveway, the EOH install, shrinkwrapped boat, and boat cockpit.
good luck. DAJ
Love this, free trade and good business people at work! Nice the boarder is open againAlthough this post is somewhat dated, I recently purchased a boat in NY and found a transport company to tow-behind on its own trailer, and thought there might be some points of interest to the forum. I sold a beloved Pursuit 2470 WA a few years ago, and the replacement was not to my liking or my wife's, so time to get Pursuit #4 which is a 2020 DC 266 with little use.
I understand the valid warnings about how UShip do little to qualify their drivers, and if you create a shipment listing, many less experienced transporters along with a few experienced guys will bid, and each will have to pay the 20% of the fee to UShip. Well.... I listed for about 2 days and only had transporters who had little experience respond, and meanwhile I looked on thehulltruth.com and found dozens of good shipping companies referred by the forum and called a few. I learned for cross country trips, they will all be about the same price for the east-to-west trip, but if they have a west-to-east trip arranged, they will be cheaper. I fortunately found an experienced transporter who had a trip from Portland, OR to Maine on his calendar, and he was looking for a east-to-west and gave me a good deal. Further, this transporter was active in the boat trailer business and made adjustments to my recently purchased new trailer that helped support the load much better than the boat dealer who initially adjusted my trailer did, brought a few spare wheels/tires, lots of tools and other contingencies. I also wanted a trailer with electric over hydraulic (EOH) and could not find one, and this transporter purchased the Hydrostar unit and installed it for a reasonable price. Before boat left NY, transporter supervised the shrink wrap to ensure it was tight enough, as evidently the west bound trip has lots of headwinds and crosswinds that cause wrap to billow and damage gel coat.
The transporter I used did a great job, was good in his communication, handy in his trailer adjustments and installation of EOH, and had a very fair price. His name is David Wilks of Alden Marine and I would without any reservation use him again.
Below are some photos of boat in my driveway, the EOH install, shrinkwrapped boat, and boat cockpit.
good luck. DAJ
BEAUTIFUL boat. Congrats on the purchase. Glad to hear there are some reputable people still left out there.Although this post is somewhat dated, I recently purchased a boat in NY and found a transport company to tow-behind on its own trailer, and thought there might be some points of interest to the forum. I sold a beloved Pursuit 2470 WA a few years ago, and the replacement was not to my liking or my wife's, so time to get Pursuit #4 which is a 2020 DC 266 with little use.
I understand the valid warnings about how UShip do little to qualify their drivers, and if you create a shipment listing, many less experienced transporters along with a few experienced guys will bid, and each will have to pay the 20% of the fee to UShip. Well.... I listed for about 2 days and only had transporters who had little experience respond, and meanwhile I looked on thehulltruth.com and found dozens of good shipping companies referred by the forum and called a few. I learned for cross country trips, they will all be about the same price for the east-to-west trip, but if they have a west-to-east trip arranged, they will be cheaper. I fortunately found an experienced transporter who had a trip from Portland, OR to Maine on his calendar, and he was looking for a east-to-west and gave me a good deal. Further, this transporter was active in the boat trailer business and made adjustments to my recently purchased new trailer that helped support the load much better than the boat dealer who initially adjusted my trailer did, brought a few spare wheels/tires, lots of tools and other contingencies. I also wanted a trailer with electric over hydraulic (EOH) and could not find one, and this transporter purchased the Hydrostar unit and installed it for a reasonable price. Before boat left NY, transporter supervised the shrink wrap to ensure it was tight enough, as evidently the west bound trip has lots of headwinds and crosswinds that cause wrap to billow and damage gel coat.
The transporter I used did a great job, was good in his communication, handy in his trailer adjustments and installation of EOH, and had a very fair price. His name is David Wilks of Alden Marine and I would without any reservation use him again.
Below are some photos of boat in my driveway, the EOH install, shrinkwrapped boat, and boat cockpit.
good luck. DAJ