Woods Skoota 32DM

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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM

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fallguy1000 wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 8:03 am
TomW1 wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:43 pm Wow, Dan didn't know the move was so imminent. Enjoy Texas!!! When do you start down with the boat? Tom
Moving the boat.

Moving to Texas is at least a year away. House not even bid, yet. Waiting on bid.

I got the invoice to move the boat. Does not include the two cranes. $6570...ouch, budget miss. But I think the guy is a good mover, so not messing around..
If you go through UShip.net maybe, we see you and your boat on an episode of Shipping Wars!! Could save you a ton of money and you get a free video of the moving! :)

On there the shipper hires and pays for the cranes.
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM

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OrangeQuest wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 9:31 am
fallguy1000 wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 8:03 am
TomW1 wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:43 pm Wow, Dan didn't know the move was so imminent. Enjoy Texas!!! When do you start down with the boat? Tom
Moving the boat.

Moving to Texas is at least a year away. House not even bid, yet. Waiting on bid.

I got the invoice to move the boat. Does not include the two cranes. $6570...ouch, budget miss. But I think the guy is a good mover, so not messing around..
If you go through UShip.net maybe, we see you and your boat on an episode of Shipping Wars!! Could save you a ton of money and you get a free video of the moving! :)

On there the shipper hires and pays for the cranes.
He is going 12 miles from my house to the Mississippi.

I only have four weeks to paint the bottom, get in the water, and pull out for freeze up. Pull out last day is October 24. There really is no time to mess around. Just the three white oak beams cost $1650 and he is charging me only $700 for them because he doesn't usually need them super wide and will likely cut them or one of them down.

If he paid for the cranes; he'd mark them up, so that is not much help. The crane guy talked about picking the boat up 60 feet in the air, but there is a tree kind of in the way. I left the two of them for awhile and came back and they had decided it was better to do things with two cranes for safety to my boat. I'm probably looki g at 3k for cranes as well.
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM

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It's only money... :help:
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM

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I must be missing something, I thought the whole point of this build was to get something quick and easy to move :doh:
I know different style of boat and all but my neighbor had his forty foot boat moved 80 miles for $1000.

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Fuzz wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:00 pm I must be missing something, I thought the whole point of this build was to get something quick and easy to move :doh:
I know different style of boat and all but my neighbor had his forty foot boat moved 80 miles for $1000.
Easier to move as a large boat across the country dismantled. If I spend two weeks taking it apart and another week putting it back together, I lose the season. Sort of stuck.
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Well I guess the pain will be confined to the wallet.

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Fuzz wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:50 pm Well I guess the pain will be confined to the wallet.
Yeah, unless some idiot hits the boat during the night move.
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Dan, they will probably need to follow wide load protocol with escorts front and rear with flashing yellow lights. Each state is different of course but your movers should know what is needed. Tom
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM

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Wondering what they are using to need two cranes? How much does the boat weigh? Two crane lifts pretty much always have a much higher risk factor. I have made some of them but only when there was no way to get it done with one.

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Fuzz wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 7:14 pm Wondering what they are using to need two cranes? How much does the boat weigh? Two crane lifts pretty much always have a much higher risk factor. I have made some of them but only when there was no way to get it done with one.
Well, this is a core/foam boat and so lift points must be maintained and the lift points are not at perceived centers of mass. So, a single crane lift point would require more messing around and even sandbagging. The first BH is 1 meter from the front, the second 2 meters and the 3rd is 4 meters. Stands are at the strongest BHs at 1 and 5, or the 2nd and 6th. The first one is BH0.

Your question is great, David. They wanted to pick my boat up 60 feet in the air with unknown balance points and I did not approve.

Now it is going up maybe 6' onto a different trailer..
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