The transport of boats

In order to attend distant regata, to be shown in a boat show, for an important repair or simply to be transported from the shipyard to its definitive port of destination. Sometimes the boats move thousands of kilometers exactly by where they do not have, traveling by wagon on a powerful truck, the immense cover of a merchant or even in the warehouse of a transport airplane.

It is always a work very specialized and professional, that it requires of great experience. The companies of transport of boats are in charge of all the step and preparations from the cranes logistic and to the red tape necessary to fulfill the legal requirements.

The aerial transports are always most spectacular. A great America Glass can travel in the warehouses especially equipped of a transport airplane.

Fastest and spectacular they are the aerial transports, that by discounted are also most expensive. In certain circumstances the boats must be sent with much urgency. For it they make lack true specialistic that is in charge to look for the most suitable airplane, and mainly load it of sensible form so that the airplane can take off. In many occasions the helmet must travel fit to the size of the warehouse so that it can fit, which forces to turns and almost impossible positions.

To make a transport by sea is much more usual and for it usually it is used the cover of a merchant in whom they are become ordained and they organized tens of yachts and sailboats to diminish the transport costs.

Some merchants dedicated exclusively to the transport of boats and floating platforms are designed in such a way that they can be semisunk when filling his ballast tanks so that the boats that are going to be transported can be placed sailing without aid of no crane superficially. (to see article “Dockwise”)

The transports by sea are long as much in distance as in time, and therefore dedicated to take a boat from a continent almost always to another one. When the distances are small or of some thousands of kilometers within a same continent, most usual it is to use the transport by highway. For it powerful trucks equipped with platforms specifically designed for the transport of boats are used.  

In many occasions the own company of transports will be the one that can coordinate the works of preparation like are the dismasted one of a sailboat, who in the great yachts of regatas sometimes can reach the height of 55 meters! The organization of these operations requires a detailed planning and very taken care of.