VANCOUVER ISLAND WINDTALK • Shipping a windsurf Board
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Shipping a windsurf Board

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:58 pm
by winddude
trying to buy a freestyle board from Ont. The guy is saying purolator or UPS won't ship it because it's too big, 105l freestyle, anyone have any suggestions?

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 4:07 pm
by winddude
it's in Kingston, in case anyone is traveling.

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 4:33 pm
by nanmoo
Should have gotten a surf SUP instead. :roll:

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 4:37 pm
by winddude
nanmoo wrote:Should have gotten a surf SUP instead. :roll:
nankook :P

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:44 pm
by redbaron
Have you called up any of the shops and asked them what shipping companies they use?

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:37 pm
by winddude
Yea, called boardsports, sounds like they use purolator. But I think the shipping companies are kind of like airlines, with the gear, the people working there don't really know what to do, or what they're talking about.

Still trying to figure it out, those bigger freestyle boards are hard to come by.

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:19 pm
by downwind dave
I've had a couple sups (including a 12 footer) come via Day and Ross shipping, with good results. They have a depot in Langford, easy peasy.

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:49 pm
by winddude
thanks for the suggestion, sounds like purolator will work. I've had a bad experience with frieght companies, not say day ross would be the same, but I'm a little scared of them, I has two forklift holes in a formula board when I arrived in florida :x

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:41 pm
by lkg
Have you tried greyhound? They generally have the best shipping rates and might do packages that large. Perhaps not as fastest though, and one does have to pickup from their local bus depot!