PCSing with a boat

[Sabre170]

I am looking at buying a boat at my next duty location (Guam). Has anyone PCSed with a boat? What are the difficulties? What are some techniques to make the process easier? Are there any out of pocket expenses?

When I get back to work, I will ask personal property, but I am looking for first hand experiences.

Thanks!

 

[Swanee]

The big question is what kind of boat? Shipping smaller powerboats across oceans are similar to shipping cars. Sailboats can be a different story. You may have trouble finding yacht delivery guys willing to sail a 28ft boat from Guam back to the USA... Everyone I know has had to pay out of pocket for delivery service on their boat.

 

[Renegade One]

Be a hero to your friends...be the first guy to request POV for your Guam movement...then sail it yourself. May burn up more than the standard travel and proceed time, however...

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

Be a hero to your friends...be the first guy to request POV for your Guam movement...then sail it yourself. May burn up more than the standard travel and proceed time, however...

Sounds like a big task but someone has to be the first to do it. Why not let it be you Sabre170!

 

[helolumpy]

Be a hero to your friends...be the first guy to request POV for your Guam movement...then sail it yourself. May burn up more than the standard travel and proceed time, however...

I got a buddy who did it to Puerto Rico back when we still had VC-8. He bought his boat in Jax (HS-1 was the H-3 RAG then) and sailed it to Roosey Roads.

Not exactly sure how the 'milage' worked out when he filed his claim but he got his boat there in one piece.

I will say that Puerto Rico is a WHOLE lot closer than Guam though...

 

[Jim123]

I wonder how you'd get the 'empty' and 'full' weights for the boat? Don't try to play fast and loose with fuel and ballast

 

[HAL Pilot]

Be a hero to your friends...be the first guy to request POV for your Guam movement...then sail it yourself. May burn up more than the standard travel and proceed time, however...

I knew an AO LDO CDR who did this in 1996. He got about 3 months travel Norfolk to North Island via the Panama Canal. Of course he had almost 40 years of active duty, was PCSing from COMNAVAIRLANT to COMNAVAIRPAC while being close personal friends with both, close personal friend to Chief of Naval Personnel, etc..... With his enroute leave, travel and proceed he had a 6 month sailing vacation.

He was also my initial "in" when I was trying to get hired at Hawaiian. After he retired, he moored his boat in Marina del Rey next to LAX where he became drinking buds with 3 or 4 Hawaiian Captains who had boats there too. I drank with him, they drank him, I drank with them, I got an interview. How can anyone say boozing is a bad thing???????

 

[armada1651]

How can anyone say boozing is a bad thing???????

Wait a second...who the hell said that?

 

[SynixMan]

C2165 TRANSOCEANIC TRAVEL BY PRIVATELY OWNED BOAT
When an employee travels by POC using a personally owned boat, constructed or actual (fuel, oil, and docking fees) reimbursement is authorized NTE the airfare (contract city pair airfare if available). Per diem and travel time are based on the air travel time. (59 Comp. Gen. 737 (1980)) The AO, IAW par. C2210-B and APP I3, par. E4a(5), must ensure a statement is on the travel authorization/order indicating that GOV’T-procured air transoceanic travel is authorized and reimbursement for travel at personal expense (including per diem) cannot exceed the amount that would have been paid for the available GOV’T-procured air transportation (plus appropriate per diem).

But you're probably not taking your boat across the Pacific... I plan on moving my via DITY to Corpus, but the moving folks in PCola said I could have it shipped just like people have cars shipped.

 

[HAL Pilot]

^ Well he did it somehow. Might have been his "friends" authorizing it.

It might also have been the fact that his boat was also his home. He'd lived on it for years.

 

[A4sForever]

Be a hero to your friends...be the first guy to request POV for your Guam movement...then sail it yourself. May burn up more than the standard travel and proceed time, however...

Knew a guy who did it in the airlines when he drew the GUM base (a.k.a. our 'Foreign Legion' base) ...

Truth ... justice ... the American Way.

 

[PropAddict]

I've only made two moves with boats, but both times they were on trailers and it was no problem. They tow it away, shrink wrap it, and delivered it to my new house. The only PITA was unwrapping a Boston Whaler 17 and (later) a Catalina 30.

Overseas, I would imagine it has to ship like a car, as there is no way a decent size boat is going to fit in an overseas shipping crate.

If you're talking sailing it yourself: you'll need some friends to come along from the haul from Guam. I've got leave to burn, and you can drop me off in Hawaii on the way. . .

 

[Swanee]

I've only made two moves with boats, but both times they were on trailers and it was no problem. They tow it away, shrink wrap it, and delivered it to my new house. The only PITA was unwrapping a Boston Whaler 17 and (later) a Catalina 30.

Overseas, I would imagine it has to ship like a car, as there is no way a decent size boat is going to fit in an overseas shipping crate.

If you're talking sailing it yourself: you'll need some friends to come along from the haul from Guam. I've got leave to burn, and you can drop me off in Hawaii on the way. . .

I've seen people having to unbolt keels to ship boats by land across the continent... Even more of a bitch when you have a keel stepped mast... Just more reasons to sail it yourself.