We bought our current 40 Albin in Rochester and cruised it to eastern Ct. We alloted 2 weeks, but the actual time was 10 days and that included one day at anchor because of the weather. We took our time really with mostly short (4 to 8 hours) days of running coupled with a couple of long days. It was a great maiden voyage. We learned the boat, made some repairs, made some upgrades, etc along the way. No way would I have trucked the boat, it was much better to do the cruise. Best of luck. Jay Message: 14 Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:37:16 -0500 From: "Werner & Kathie Steuernagel" <werners@roadrunner.com> To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Subject: T&T: Moving Marine Trader 34 Message-ID: <B54B3C71E2C341EEBB0943F8A4FE1DE6@DOMAIN.CMACABLE.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am in the process of buying a Marine Trader 34 DC and need some help. The boat is located in New York (Queens) and I need to get it to Lake Erie Sandusky). My choices are to have it shipped or to cruise through the Erie Canal to Lake Erie. Any suggestions? Is it possible for a husband and wife team to cruise through the Erie Canal? How long would you expect it to take assuming daylight travelling only? Does anybody have any experience shipping boat by truck? I can get estimates but need to know the shipping height of the MT34 (without mast etc). Does anyone have that information? Thanks for your help. Werner Jay Leonard leonaj99@yahoo.com