I bought my first Tomcat a year and a half ago in Norfolk Virginia, but I never wrote about my trip. Now I am.
After looking for boats for four years I decided on a C-Dory Tomcat. I live in Anchorage Alaska, and there were not many for sale close by so I broadened my search to the what we call the Lower 48. In late winter of 2015, I found 4 Tomcats spread from Seattle to Florida, but all got sold before I made an offer. I began checking the websites daily and one came up on the C-Brats site. I called immediately, I flew down to look at it and made an offer, which was accepted. However it did not have a trailer. I saw Marc Grove's (of Wefing Marine, in Florida) on the C-Brats website so I called him. He was extremely knowledgeable and very helpful. I told him I would be driving the trailer 5,000 miles so I wanted it heavy duty. He made me a custom float-On to my specs and I ended up with what he called the biggest Float-On trailer he ever made for a Tomcat. it worked perfectly the entire trip and still does.
My plan was to find a boat and buy a truck, a used truck, there and drive it home. But there was an amazing sale here in Anchorage and I ended up with a brand new 2015 3/4 diesel Chevy truck, but it was in Anchorage so I had to drive it to Virginia to pick up my boat. I called a friend and we had a 10 day "road trip" that included quick visits to four national parks. Once in Norfolk, I got my trailer that Marc delivered from Florida, put the boat on it and headed back to Alaska. My friend had to get home so I had another friend fly down to drive back with me. I grew up in PA and had some cherry lumber there that I had furniture made from so I stopped in for 4the of July, saw my family and loaded 1,500 pounds of cherry lumber on the boat trailer and in the bed of the truck. It took us about 11 days to reach Anchorage, we visited a couple of parks and saw some friends, but the ride home with the boat in tow was not as stress free as the trip down. Although we had no problems with truck or boat and trailer except for knocking off an anchor light in the suburbs of Chicago where I visited relatives. That Chevy diesel never slowed down on a hill all the way from Virginia to Anchorage, I was very impressed and happy. The boat, trailer, and wood weighed a little over 11,000 pounds.
Dave
After looking for boats for four years I decided on a C-Dory Tomcat. I live in Anchorage Alaska, and there were not many for sale close by so I broadened my search to the what we call the Lower 48. In late winter of 2015, I found 4 Tomcats spread from Seattle to Florida, but all got sold before I made an offer. I began checking the websites daily and one came up on the C-Brats site. I called immediately, I flew down to look at it and made an offer, which was accepted. However it did not have a trailer. I saw Marc Grove's (of Wefing Marine, in Florida) on the C-Brats website so I called him. He was extremely knowledgeable and very helpful. I told him I would be driving the trailer 5,000 miles so I wanted it heavy duty. He made me a custom float-On to my specs and I ended up with what he called the biggest Float-On trailer he ever made for a Tomcat. it worked perfectly the entire trip and still does.
My plan was to find a boat and buy a truck, a used truck, there and drive it home. But there was an amazing sale here in Anchorage and I ended up with a brand new 2015 3/4 diesel Chevy truck, but it was in Anchorage so I had to drive it to Virginia to pick up my boat. I called a friend and we had a 10 day "road trip" that included quick visits to four national parks. Once in Norfolk, I got my trailer that Marc delivered from Florida, put the boat on it and headed back to Alaska. My friend had to get home so I had another friend fly down to drive back with me. I grew up in PA and had some cherry lumber there that I had furniture made from so I stopped in for 4the of July, saw my family and loaded 1,500 pounds of cherry lumber on the boat trailer and in the bed of the truck. It took us about 11 days to reach Anchorage, we visited a couple of parks and saw some friends, but the ride home with the boat in tow was not as stress free as the trip down. Although we had no problems with truck or boat and trailer except for knocking off an anchor light in the suburbs of Chicago where I visited relatives. That Chevy diesel never slowed down on a hill all the way from Virginia to Anchorage, I was very impressed and happy. The boat, trailer, and wood weighed a little over 11,000 pounds.
Dave
Colby