Caquinez Coot

Per wrote:
The boat was craned off directly from the YM ship into the water using the YM onboard crane or a dock crane?
Did you have to deal with longshoremen?
How did the customs clearance process work out? No customs inspections etc?

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The dock*crane lifted the Coot onto the dock.* We had time to see if the engine started, put out fenders, and load lunch and tools onboard.* The boat was left attached to the crane lines while we drove a mile or so to*Jack London Square to board the chase boat.* When the chase boat arrived back at the ship, they lifted the Coot from the dock to place it in the water where we detached the crane lines.*

The wharf/crane crew were waiting for U.S. Inspections when we left for the chase boat.* Presumably, Customs arrived and cleared the boat between the time we left and later returned with the chase boat.* The Coot*remained*connected to the crane for nearly an hour.

The local Yang Ming (shipping line) representative was ever-present.* He had given advance notice to port security personnel.* We met him at the dock's security gate, we signed in, and then he drove us to the ship and escorted us onto the YM Cypress where we waited 2+ hours in the officers' lounge awaiting unloading.* He drove us back to the security gate, we signed out, and then drove in our car to the chase boat.

The shipping line dealt with the longshoremen.* We had no direct involvement.* All contact with security and shipping-line personnel/crew/officers was courteous.

I had a local customs broker handle the paperwork end, and he filed all the required forms.**His fee was modest, but the bonding fee*and customs charge were significant.


-- Edited by markpierce on Monday 6th of June 2011 12:18:25 PM

I*probably mentioned it before, but the four lifting rings on the Coot were surely convenient.* We didn't have to deal with special under-the-hull straps but instead*were attached directly with the crane lines via shackles.* That's another advantage of a steel boat.**This photo,*taken while the Coot was loaded onto a small ship to move the boat from the boat builder's location*to where it would later be loaded on the contrainer ship,*demonstrates it:



When I first asked Yang Ming's Oakland representative about the disposal of the boat cradle, he indicated there could be a charge for its disposal.* Subsequently, however, it was presumably found to have value to someone, and I left the cradle at the Oakland dock without being charged a fee.


-- Edited by markpierce on Monday 6th of June 2011 12:33:43 PM

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I left the cradle at the Oakland dock without being charged a fee.


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If you had a place*to store*it.**It looks like a great tool for when you need to do some bottom work.

The cradle that is.

SD

That cradle looks fantastic. When you're at the pier and you've already got enough to think about and as you said, so much stimuli, it's hard to account for every other thing that comes up. There's handling, storage, transport, and who knows what cooperation to be sought for the simplest variable. Then, is there's a place to keep it!? Looks like one of those handling cables in the photo is going through the bow-thruster tube.

healhustler wrote:
*There's handling, storage, transport, and who knows what cooperation to be sought for the simplest variable. Then, is there's a place to keep it!? Looks like one of those handling cables in the photo is going through the bow-thruster tube.

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*To get the cradle on a truck, one would probably*need to cut it with a torch.* Then arrange transport, and then to store it, and then to weld it back together.* Toooo much!* Then what would I use the cradle for?* Boats here can stay in the water all year.

So, how much did it all cost?

$199,000 basic boat (now the price is $250,000)

$24,255 for optional, extra-cost items

$26,750 shipping

$559.81 transit insurance

$4096.74 duty charges

$920 customs bond

$268 customs broker fee and charges

If anything, I wanted to exchange deflating dollars for something tangible.* Did I make a 25% ($51,000) profit?

markpierce wrote:
If anything, I wanted to exchange deflating dollars for something tangible.* Did I make a 25% ($51,000) profit?

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It seems so, Mark. *It's hard to compare the Coot with what else I have priced for build, but considering the new prices of even the years-old stock units that are anywhere near the "type" (that's not to say "class") of boat the Coot is, I'd be delighted to have made the same investment. *

Did I make a 25% ($51,000) profit?


Only if you count in US dollars.

Use the price of gold or silver at contract and today , for a different view.

FF wrote:
Did I make a 25% ($51,000) profit?


Only if you count in US dollars.

Use the price of gold or silver at contract and today , for a different view.

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*It seems that US $ is all that counts here in the US.* Yesterday at the local supermarket I tried to check out with a small bag of gold dust but they seemed perplexed. So I had to use US$.* Is it different in FL?

markpierce wrote:Did I make a 25% ($51,000) profit?

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*Put it on the market and you will know.

RickB wrote:markpierce wrote:Did I make a 25% ($51,000) profit?

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*Put it on the market and you will know.

*RickB is right.* You don't count a profit until the paper work is done and the money is in the bank.* However, you got one helluva boat that should last a cruising couple a*lifetime.* I love it.

There she is, at home, nearly*hidden, but easily spotted,*among the blue and white:

I can check on "Mahalo Moi" in your photo. She's just three slips to the left... It's a small world after all!