Repair & maintenance: Shipping a Hurricane mast

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Shipping a Hurricane mast

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Topic: Shipping a Hurricane mast

Posted By: English Dave
Subject: Shipping a Hurricane mast
Date Posted: 14 Jul 08 at 2:22am

One of the crew from Ballyholme is relocating to the middle-east (UAE) and is considering taking his Hurricane with him. Now the H59 is a big beast but it does break down and pack fairly easily into an ISO crate

The main problem is the mast - never measured it myself but it's got to be somewhere between 9 and 10m long.

Anyone got any ideas or experience of freighting a boat that far? I'm aware that UK cats ship to Aruba etc but that's in a batch of 10+ cats so the cost is shared. This is just the one cat and he is trying to work out whether taking the boat will be cost effective.

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English Dave
http://www.ballyholme.com - Ballyholme Yacht Club

(You'd think I'd be better at it by now)

Hurricane 5.9 SX
RS700

Replies:

Posted By: tornado435
Date Posted: 15 Jul 08 at 2:12pm

Dave

We brought our dart 18 back from Kenya but left the mast behind. Mom had the hulls and bits and pieces packed in a 20 foot container with the rest of her personal effects. All he needs is enough personal effects to fill a 40 foot container and just put the hurri in with it.

Not sure how you would send a hurri by itself. You may be able to send the mast as deck cargo but I'm not sure.

Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 17 Jul 08 at 10:28am

We packed our contenders into their container for the worlds in Kingston, Ontario yesterday - and then found the two alloy masts wouldn't fit. They are now going separately at a cost of £260. Our shippers are Peters & May who have been fantastically helpful. Our contact is a lady called Bethany King. I'm sure they can help you out.

We got four contenders, three trolleys and two carbon masts into a 20 foot container. The problem was the boats took up all of the diagonal angle we needed for the masts. Hint - consider the INTERNAL dimensions of the container, not the external length,,,,,

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