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>If you have more time than money I'd truck it to Texas and sail it down to
>Florida. You can cut through the Caloosahatchee if you don't want to sail
>all the way around the state. For more fun you could have the boat
delivered
>to Cabo and then sail it up the Sea of Cortez to one of the ports on the
>mainland side. Then have a Mexican trucking company bring it to Texas. I
>have heard of people being quite satisfied with Mexican trucking comapnies
>and there is at least one that has a totally slick setup with one of those
>trailers that makes the ride a lot smoother for the boat.
On the surface it sounds like an interesting plan. Here is the problem:
A couple years ago I checked on shipping a big power boat from the Texas
coast to San Carlos, Mexico. It turns out that the Mexico part (a couple
hundred miles) was way more than the US part (1500 miles or so.) It would
have been much cheaper to ship it to San Diago. The above plan includes two
Mexico legs, that would be an outrageous price. Nafta may have changed it
a bit, but you still have two loadings/unloadings in addition to the
shipping costs and international transfer costs/problems.
Gene Gruender
Rainbow Chaser
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