Where boats move in Connecticut
The Sound shoreline runs almost unbroken from Greenwich to Stonington, and nearly every town on it has a yard. Stamford, Norwalk and Westport handle a lot of powerboats on tight urban streets. Branford, Guilford and Clinton are the middle of the state's boating, with good yard access straight off I-95. Mystic and Stonington at the east end are deep-water and used to big boats coming and going by truck.
The Connecticut River is the sailboat corridor. Essex, Old Saybrook, Deep River, Chester and up to Middletown hold most of the state's masted fleet, and almost all of them unstep before transport. Build the yard's mast schedule into your timing — it's more often the delay than the hauler is.
Skip the Merritt Parkway when you picture the route. It's closed to trucks and its 1930s stone overpasses are low. Carriers work I-95 and Route 1, which means avoiding the 3pm–7pm crawl through Fairfield County if the delivery has a time window.
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Powerboats and cruisers
Center consoles, sportfish and cabin cruisers. Under 8’6” of beam it travels on ordinary plates; over that we pull the permits and plan the route around the bridges.
Quote a powerboat
Sailboats
Mast unstepped at the yard, keel cradled, air draft planned before the truck books. Tell us your rigger’s date and we schedule around it.
Quote a sailboat
Small craft and PWC
Jet skis, skiffs, tenders and anything already on its own trailer. The quickest to schedule and the cheapest per mile.
Quote small craftMoving in or out of Connecticut
South and west is the busy direction: down I-95 through New York to New Jersey and the Chesapeake, or the fall run to Florida. New England runs east to Rhode Island and Massachusetts are short enough that a carrier can often do a same-day round trip, which is worth asking about — it prices better than a one-way leg.
Cross-Sound moves to Long Island look short on a map and aren't. The ferries take trailered boats only within their own size limits, so most Connecticut-to-Long-Island hauls go the long way around through New York City.
Where a hull is not worth the cost of the haul, donate your boat is a cleaner exit than trucking it somewhere to sit again.
When trucking is not worth it
Boats coming out of long storage are the ones worth pricing carefully. If a hull has sat for six seasons and the quote to move it is climbing past what it would sell for, donating the boat is a cleaner exit than trucking it somewhere to sit again.
Still working out the details? The marine transport guide covers permits, prep and pricing end to end, and the FAQ handles the short questions.
Ready when you are
Tell us the boat, the two addresses and the week you have in mind. The quote comes back with the permit and access notes already accounted for.
