Tuesday, July 1, 2008

how could this possibly go wrong?

Yep, we decided to truck our shiny, new (to us), beautiful (we think, haven't seen it yet) boat from San Carlos, Mexico to Seattle. To say that we're nervous about this is a galactic understatement. The logistics go a little like so:


  • 7/6 Fisher drives our car from Seattle down to New Orleans to drop off his dog with his mom. Stay with me, it'll come around to our boat.

  • 7/13 Fisher drives to Phoenix and hops on a flight, leaving the car somewhere near the Phoenix airport.

  • 7/18 We fly down to Phoenix and pick up the car and drive to Tucson.

  • 7/19 We pick up a bunch of packing/padding supplies in Tucson.

  • 7/19 We cross the border and head to San Carlos.

  • 7/20 We help the seller un-mothball the boat and get it ready for the survey.

  • 7/21 We pick up the surveyor in the morning at Marina Real. We perform the sea trials whilst transporting the boat to the south to Marina San Carlos where we have a tide dictated haul out time of 1300. We have the boat hauled and continue the survey on the hard. Assuming everything goes ok, we hand the owner an oil drum full of cash and take ownership.

  • 7/21 Once the boat is ours, Marina San Carlos can un-step the mast and transport the boat a mile down the road to their dry storage.

  • 7/22 Everything above decks needs to photographed, labeled, removed and stowed below to prepare the boat for shipping. Shipping a boat means several days of 60MPH winds - just shy of hurricane forces - and constant vibration. This means we need to be really careful how we pack the boat and equipment to make sure it doesn't scar up the woodwork and break stuff.

  • 7/23 See 7/22.

  • 7/24 The Mexican truck comes by and picks up the boat to haul it to a storage yard in Tucson, AZ. We take off to drive back to Seattle.

  • 7/27 We arrive back in Seattle.

  • 7/28 The US truck picks up the boat at the storage yard and begins the long slog up to Seattle.

  • 7/30 Christy flies out to Connecticut for Clemfest. It's a long story but somewhere along the way, they bury a pig.

  • 7/31 Or thereabouts. Our shiny new beautiful boat arrives in Seattle at a boat yard along the Ship Canal and is set up in their yard on jackstands.

  • 8/1 I fly out to Connecticut to eat some pig.

  • 8/3 We fly back to Seattle

  • 8/4 For the next week or two, we re-assemble the boat and tackle any maintenance items that will be much easier while the boat is out of the water and the mast is lying on sawhorses in the yard.

  • 8/15 Or thereabouts. We'll motor through the locks down to Shilshole and nestle into our comfy slip. (That we don't have yet.)

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let me know if you need any help. I live at Shilshole if you need me to hunt around for a sublease or something (my neighbor might have one for the summer for a 40' boat).

Sounds like it might work - you guys must be psyched.

McKenzie said...

Impressive logistics, I wouldn't expect anything less from you two!