Getting your Boat to Vancouver

We recommend shipping your boat to Vancouver as follows:

  • Use of a 40′ high-cube open top container
  • Via Panama Canal (approx. 42 days) or via Montreal and rail/road
  • Mast can be sleeved or transported separately. Please contact us for further information.
  • Costs: Approximately US $10,000 – $15,000, (both ways) from Europe

2015 World Champion Llanoria is a wooden boat, not fiber glassed, and has been shipped five times in a high-cube open top container without any damage.

Detailed information on boat logistics can be found in this .pdf document.

Questions? Contact Peter Hofmann at peterhofmann@6mVancouver2017.com

Loading Tsigane in Brunnen, Switzerland for her journey to Vancouver, BC, Canada

Off-loading St. Francis X in North Vancouver in 2013 (rigid open top high cube container)

Crane pulling the rigid open top off the shipping container.
St. Francis X being hoisted out of the high-cube shipping container.
The crew lines up St. Francis X with her cradle.
Lifting St. Francis X into the air.

 Loading Blade in France, June 2015 (canvas open top high cube open top container)

Preparing Blade to be loaded into her shipping container.
Blade hovers over the top of the container.
The crew lines blade up before sliding her into place.
The crew works to stabilize Blade in the shipping container.