Post 47, Too Big to Trailer?

It's semi-flexible. Many can dismount the flying bridge to get under highway bridges. Maybe better to start with boat ideas first, then work out how to get it there from here.

-Chris

Keep in mind that any Great Lakes boat can be run on it's own bottom to the coast. (Relatively speaking)

Not familiar with the boats, but assuming flying bridge?

If so, then a question to the group here might be who is familiar with dismounting/remounting Post flybridges. (I've also read it's often best to have the same guy who dismounted it come to your location to remount after transit.)

And then who can recommend a trucking company with relevant experience so you can ask them for estimates.

We moved our current boat from Ft. Myers to Annapolis in 2021, 1123 NM, costs $11.5K fuel and marina fees. That was 18 days, on plane mostly, plus two lay days for weather and crew pickup -- not entirely leisurely but not a full-on "delivery" speed throughout. I could likely have done it for half that at "smell the coffee" speed... vacationing along the way. In this case, July/Aug '21, my Admiral was worried about more hurricanes and so forth... so I didn't have as much discretion as usual.

In the grand scheme of things, I passed on all the Great Lakes and Tennessee boats... 'cause to me the condition was only potentially better, the asking prices at the time were too high for what they were, and none of those available floated my boat. In the end, just buying a mid-Atlantic or Northeast boat could have been less painful.

-Chris

You're going to miss a great trip by shipping a boat over the road.

Looks like our average diesel cost/gallon was $3.29 at that time. Don't know current prices, but it was approx $6.00/gallon when we filled up last November (end of last season, for us). Gak!

It's sometimes possible to "deliver" a boat in stages. For example, move from Chicago to Port Clinton (or similar) and leave it there for a while. Resume later, move it to the Erie Canal system somewhere, leave it. Eventually get it where you want in NJ. Something like that...

But then you'd want to compare that to cost of a delivery captain and crew. With our without you doing a ride-along for some parts of it.

Either approach might seem like a chunk of time or a chunk of expense... but could well be worth it for the right boat.

-Chris

Or hire a delivery captain to get it where you want fairly quickly.

If you go with the Chicago boat and leave it in the area, go north on the west shore of Lake Michigan or cross the lake to store it. Anything south of Manitowoc on the Wisconsin/Illinois side is stupid money for storage.