It is so easy these days to browse hundreds of suitably used boats for sale using your computer or mobile phone. Using websites to find what is available also means you aren’t restricted to looking at boats that are for sale near your location.

In the past, people would be too worried about getting the boat delivered to them from locations that were too far away to drive to. In recent years though, boat transport companies like Slip Away have developed custom made heavy haulage trailers that can solve that problem for you.

Boat transporters can go to a location like a marina, boat ramp, dealer or private seller to pick the boat up for you. That means you can buy something even if it is located interstate & you will know exactly where the boat is & the person towing it for you.

If the boat needs work or repairs you can even hire a mobile slip cradle so you can move the boat to a service contractor to get a repair or upgrade work completed while it is out of the water. While this level of service adds to the cost of the purchase, it broadens your choices of locations or boats that you can buy from & in a lot of cases making it an even better buyer's market as you can negotiate across states easily.

At Slip Away we help boat dealers, owners, marinas and even government departments to transport their boat by road with our specialist trailers. We provide a ‘door to door’ service which means we come to you or where the boat is located. This makes it convenient to buy a boat from any location without the need to tow it yourself or have someone drive it by water.

Your other options could be;

- Get a boat shipping company who might put it in a container to then freight it by water – although in most cases you have to go to a depot to collect it & it takes a long time.

- Another option is using backload transport but your precious vessel is then sent with other heavy goods and again, may need collecting at a depot.

There are people offering to tow boats very cheaply on Gumtree or Facebook, but typically these are individuals who are just using their own vehicle rather than a professional company. While this might be ok for smaller boats like a tinny or a jet ski, for larger boats especially longer than 20 foot this can be a huge risk to take.

No matter what you decide on, we can help get it transported either locally or interstate whether it is in a driveway at a house, at a marina or in the water. You don’t even need a trailer to move your boat, we can pick it up and move it by road locally or interstate which also saves extra engine hours compared to moving by water.