Small boat transport: Isle of Wight to Ireland.

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Hi All,

My new Cheetah 7.6 hull is ready for collection next week from the IOW. :):D:cool:

I can only find boat transport companies with massive trucks and lowloaders.

Do you know of any companies who could collect a lightweight cat (about 1 ton) on a flat bed trailer/ jeep, and deliver to Ireland?


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rustybarge said:
Hi All,

My new Cheetah 7.6 hull is ready for collection next week from the IOW. :):D:cool:

I can only find boat transport companies with massive trucks and lowloaders.

Do you know of any companies who could collect a lightweight cat (about 1 ton) on a flat bed trailer/ jeep, and deliver to Ireland?


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Get Sean to trailer it to mainland and put on a flat rack container in Portsmouth. most freight companies would then be able to deliver as general cargo.
 
JerseyDiver said:
Get Sean to trailer it to mainland and put on a flat rack container in Portsmouth. most freight companies would then be able to deliver as general cargo.
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Thanks, but the problem is Sean has just sold his only boat trailer...........he was actually going to deliver it himself!!
 
Have a look in the back of Practical Classics magazines or any of the kitcar mags, there will be a dozen or so there either with a trailer or a beavertail truck. Four years ago I called half a dozen adn they were all really reasonable. One chap I phoned in Huddersfield, to bring a car from Rochdale to Cambridge one Friday afternoon, car bought on the spur of the moment and the first thing the chap asked me was did I want a VAT receipt. I ummed and ahhed about it and he said, "OK, as long as mnowt goes wrong and there's nay problems, it'll be £150 cash, if we have any problems then I'll put it through books and insurance and it'll be £200 + VAT". It all went like clockwork and he drove "over 'tut hill" as he termed the Penines, and had the car loaded before I got there.
 
Firestone said:
WOW! A real beauty.What is her beam?? She'd be a Real Head Turner on the inland lakes of Ree and Derg. Has she being given a name yet? Happy future cruising.
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Hi Firestone,

She's a serious piece of kit, designed for commercial inshore fishermen, Customs, harbourmasters and survey vessels.
If a rib is equivalent to a lotus 7, the Cheetah is a rally mk2 Escort.
The gap between the hulls acts like a giant shock absorber, fishermen i've talked to say she flys like a magic carpet at 15kts and above, even in a lumpy sea.

Most important it'll fit in a standard shipping container. 25' by 7'8" beam.

I'll be building a permanent lightweight canopy, probably in aluminium or ply.......


Hoping to ship to the west Indies in a container, then on to Florida and the ICW, maybe Hawawi and Tahiti..........who knows where.:cool: (at the dream stage!!!)
 
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coliholic said:
Have a look in the back of Practical Classics magazines or any of the kitcar mags, there will be a dozen or so there either with a trailer or a beavertail truck. Four years ago I called half a dozen adn they were all really reasonable. One chap I phoned in Huddersfield, to bring a car from Rochdale to Cambridge one Friday afternoon, car bought on the spur of the moment and the first thing the chap asked me was did I want a VAT receipt. I ummed and ahhed about it and he said, "OK, as long as mnowt goes wrong and there's nay problems, it'll be £150 cash, if we have any problems then I'll put it through books and insurance and it'll be £200 + VAT". It all went like clockwork and he drove "over 'tut hill" as he termed the Penines, and had the car loaded before I got there.
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Great idea. I'll have a look.
 
I used boat-mover - www.boat-mover.co.uk for a move from Wales to the South coast a year or so ago. Small family firm with flat bed trailer towed behind a Discovery. Excellent job and highly competative on price. Suggest you give Francis a call on 01276 469407.
 
Malabar said:
I used boat-mover - www.boat-mover.co.uk for a move from Wales to the South coast a year or so ago. Small family firm with flat bed trailer towed behind a Discovery. Excellent job and highly competative on price. Suggest you give Francis a call on 01276 469407.
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Thanks a million, that sounds exactly what i'm looking for, and it's on the route to Ireland via Holyhead.
 
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