Hello,
I am Sam Neuwirth, an aspiring BCC owner. I am interested in any dialog about trailer options for a BCC.
My interest is not so much in hiring a company to move the BCC that I buy to where I live in Bellingham, although I have researched that option and it is viable and straightforward.
What I am wondering is if anyone knows about towing a BCC with a 3/4 or 1 ton truck, by themselves. It seems that if one lives near the marina, as I do, with a pickup truck and trailer, I could haul out and take the boat to my backyard to store or work on her, rather than keep her in the water or the boatyard and pay fees for storage when she is not in use.
And as for hauling a long distance, if she is bought on the east coast, she is small enough to do that with a one ton pickup, it would seem. The cost of having her shipped from coast to coast, USA, is going to be close to 12k, using a professional hauler with a semi truck.
But buying a used 3/4 or 1 ton pickup worktruck, and a trailer might not be a heckuvalot costlier, and I could do it myself and have the rig and trailer to keep for future haul outs to my backyard, if I wanted to store her or do extensive refits.
I know for 12k I might not find a pristine worktruck and trailer, but I think a stout trailer is the critical point, and most of the cost ought to go toward that.
Does anyone want to talk about what kind of trailer one needs to haul a BCC?