Need Your Help Please

[mikemak777]

Hi to All....

I am considering transporting a PDQ 32 cross country.

1) Does anyone have the following measurements:

total height of boat

length of mast

2) Does anyone have personal experience trucking a boat?

3) Can anyone recommend a trucking company?

Your help is appreciated, thanks, Mike.

[Tom Green]

I have a PDQ 34 power cat. I looked extensively into the cost of shipping it across the country on a truck. The beam is the main difficulty. If you are over a certain width, you have to have pilots in front and back in most states and that gets very costly. I suspect that you would be better off shipping with Dockwise or Yacht path depending on when you do it and what prices you can negotiate with them.

[thinwater]

in the PDQ 32 Manual. You can find it in the "links" section of my blog.

[mikemak777]

in the PDQ 32 Manual. You can find it in the "links" section of my blog.

I checked the manual cover to cover and could not find the height....am i missing something???

i know the draft is 3' 2" .... any idea of the height from the water line to top of the bimini? .....

thanks for your help ... mike.

[thinwater]

Water to mast step is ~ 7'; I measured that when checking masthead height. I think the hard top would add another 30". You will be ~ 10' total, I think.

I would think the keels would hang off the sides, so about 12' hard-top to bottom. A low-boy can handle a 12' high load. Tight enough that they are going to need to measure first.

[Catrina]

I had the factory ship my 32 from Whitby to Georgian Bay in 1995. Can't help you with the heights, but they did take the hardtop off to reduce the chance of the wind getting under it and wanting to lift it off. The trucker had a low boy, he put huge wood beams crosswise and set the boat keels on them. With the hard top off, the height did not seem all that great. No problem with the many underpasses.

I had PDQ 32003.

Mark