BahamaBreisus

"Take me down to the Sea"

Transported November, 2004

Owned by Reis and Susan Smith of Greensboro, NC., "Bahama Breisus" is a 420 Sea-Ray Sundancer and one of the best kept "dancer's" I've ever seen. I was amazed when I learned she was a 1991 model. She spent her entire life up until now as a fresh water boat.

I hauled her from Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia to the coast of North Carolina. It was about a ten hour run and due to the short winter days it was a "Gumball-Ralley" to get her to Wilmington before dark. The flag car and I arrived at Marine Max just as the sun was going down where we were met by the owners. Reis had made arrangements with the travel-lift crew to stay late in order to offload the boat.

Reis and Sue invited me to go out on "Bahama-Bresisus" the next day for her inagural run. With family and freinds we took her down the ICW and into the ocean for the first time. "What a good day with new friends"!

Sue & Reis Smith with "the boattoater'

Cap'n Reis and the crew of "Bahama-Breisus"

Footnote- "Bahama-Breisus" has since been replaced with a 50-foot Sundancer

that carries the same name. I returned the original "Bahama-Breisus"

back to Smith Mountain Lake to her new owners.

LeRoy

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"A Viking Heads South"

Transported August, 2004

The Summer season was in full swing when I pulled into the parking lot at Navisink Marine in Seabrite, New Jersey. The parking lot was jammed with cars and Reagae music from the waterfront cafe filled the air. Boaters were heading to the docks with their fishing gear and the tourists going to the restaurant paid little attention as I slowly eased the big truck and trailer towards the travel-lift.

I had been contracted to transport this boat from New Jersey to Florida for her new owners. She was a tall boat and the area of New Jersey she was located in was a maze of overhead wires, traffic lights and tree limbs. The decision had been made during the initial stages of contracting the job to remove the Flybridge thereby assuring that the load would pass safely. The owners were initially skeptical about having the boat taken apart, they'd heard horror stories about boats being taken apart and not reassembled properly. I assured them that this would not be a problem as the same person who disassembled the boat would also put her back together and that would be me.

Once the boat was loaded onto the trailer I began

the process of disconnectng the wiring and controls

and removed the hardware that fastened the Flybridge

to the boat. With the help of the yard crew we lifted

the bridge and placed it on carpet pads on the fore-

deck and then moved the console down into the cock-pit.

The transport time from New Jersey to Florida took

three day's and I called the owners each night to give

them an update on our location. I also talked with the

service department at the receiving yard in Florida

while in route to make the arrangements for their help

in lifting the parts back into position so I could do the