Can You Help with Moving a Boat?
For many families and businesses, boats are prized possessions. Moving these high-value assets, whether over short or long distances, can be complex.
Transporting your boats requires a dedicated partner with experience moving sentimental assets that you can trust. Move your vessel with a trusted, 100-year-old relocation leader that provides a seamless, fully managed boat transport experience. Ensure your valuable asset is protected from one marina to the next.
7 Special Items You Can’t Trust Just Anyone to Move
When preparing for a move, it is necessary to plan on getting help with items that require special handling, packing, or storage. Many items in your home may not fare well with people who don’t have the training to move them, or in a facility without proper temperature and humidity control.
Moving Checklist
When you’re planning a move, it can feel like there are too many steps in your moving checklist to prioritize, let alone accomplish. This moving checklist gives you the most important steps, prioritized with a suggested timeline. Don’t worry if you’re starting less than eight weeks before your move date. You can customize this list according to your own timeline and add steps or leave out ones that don’t apply.
A Boat Transport Company You Can Trust
Moving big ticket items like cars, trucks and boats will require specific planning that includes additional costs, personnel and equipment. Suddath offers:
- Door-to-door service: Have your vessel picked up and delivered to the marina, storage facility or new home conveniently and seamlessly.
- White-glove services: We tailor our packing, crating and moving services to your needs and belongings.
- Single point of contact: A dedicated move coordinator handles everything from route planning and permits to scheduling.
- Asset protection: Suddath's professional boat movers use industry-leading techniques and equipment to prepare, load and secure your vessel for transport.
How Our Boat Moving Process Works
Working with Suddath for your boat and yacht transportation is simple, with three easy steps:
- Safe and timely delivery: We'll deliver your vessel to its destination safely, with tracking and communication throughout the journey.
- Get a custom quote: Fill out the form above to provide details about your vessel type, size and location to receive a detailed, transparent estimate.
- We handle the move: The Suddath team takes over planning and preparation, coordinating all aspects of your boat move.
ADDITIONAL MOVING SERVICES
Piano Moving
Suddath has trained experts who understand every piece of wood, ivory and steel that goes into your piano. We understand how damaging moisture and unnatural positioning can be to your instrument and know how to safeguard against them.
Custom Crating
Unique items or items that are particularly delicate, fragile or irregularly sized may require their own tailored, custom crates to protect them. Our team consists of experts who will take measurements and build a crate to spec to protect these items.
Automobile Moving
During a home move, you may not have time to check a road trip off your list. Suddath will ensure your vehicle reaches your new destination.
Motorcycle Moving
If you need someone to transport your motorcycle carefully, Suddath can work with our trusted partners to ensure it gets to your new destination safely.
Frequently Asked Questions About Boat Transport
Our service offering does not include singular boat moves. We are, however, partnered with skilled boat transport companies who can manage moving your boat as part of an overall home move. A Suddath coordinator can guide you through the process of securing quotes and instructions, and maintain all this information as part of one-stop-moving services for ease.
There are many factors that determine the cost to move a boat including weight, size, height, make, model, distance and location of the new home. Some estimates range from $600-$1000 to transport a boat, but of course, large luxury water vessels like yachts may require an entire move plan, with costs of yacht movers, and more. All the details will be assessed by the boat transport company and your move coordinator at Suddath to determine the true cost, which in some instances could include a storage facility fee along the way depending on the move plan.
Yes, and generally extra personnel skilled in moving boats is required as well. Depending on the type, style, size and weight of a boat, you will need to make sure you have the right items to properly secure a boat, minimize it from shifting during transport, and be able to unload it carefully. The crucial step of a pre-move home assessment will outline what is needed ahead of time to move a boat so that move day goes smoothly.