As a follow-up on discussions of shipping your boat by ship, here's a story on a dropped boat last January... it was 78 feet long but only weighed 34 tons, and was being handled by a 300 ton crane. Don't know the name of the transport company. Makes my stomach hurt just thinking about it. The crew were on the dock watching the unload, but nobody was crushed. Ouch. http://www.sail-world.com/USA/index.cfm?SEID=0&Nid=30437&SRCID=0&ntid=0&tickeruid=0&tickerCID=0 John Marshall