: A few years back I was at the Wooden Boat School for the CLC kayak building
: class. One fellow, from the west coast, hadn't quite figured out how he
: was going to get his finished boat home. I think he contacted some
: shipping companies, and maybe even Old Town Canoe. In the end he found an
: instructor who was driving out to the west coast when the school closed
: for the winter. He traded him a Thule rack system for bringing the kayak
: out to him.

: I'd think you could find a private party who was making the drive and would
: be willing to take along a kayak, for either dollars or a trade. You'd
: probably have less worries about packaging and loading the kayak if it was
: securely cartopped as opposed to loaded it in a trailer.

I agree that would be the ideal solution, and it looks like it just may work out that way.