Hoping to move to Maui! Need Advice... Board size?

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Last time I inquired about shipping a cooler-sized 5-pound box by boat from Maui to the mainland the cost was scores of dollars and the delivery time was over a month. Have ships gotten any faster or cheaper?

Mike \m/

Sunny15 · Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Posts: 22

carl · Joined: 25 Feb 1997 Posts: 2674 Location: SF bay area

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

One board, 3 sails with battens removed and sails wrapped around the board, a skinny, boom taken apart, and base with fin, well padded with bubble pack inside a real single board bag usually weighs right around 70 lbs., with your swimming suit, harness, and some towels.
You can drag 70 lbs, so it's considered ONE board, pack it so it has rope handles for the luggage gorillas.
You can always borrow a bigger board from some big lug at the beach, but nobody has a small board you can ride on the good days.
If you need to sail in 15 mph, then you'd need a 85 liter slalom board and a 6 meter sail, so don't worry about those breezes.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

[quote="zwinktThanks cbknap. So do you get all that gear into one board bag? Is it a coffin bag? Those things are huge! Or maybe a double walled board bag? Thanks[/quote]

Here is a video of his gear bag in use.
http://www.thebagster.com/

Mike \m/

rlemmens · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 206

Just fly Alaska, it costs $50. Size-wise I think a lot of women use high 60s to mid 70 ltr boards. If you're pretty confident bring something in the 70ltr range. Also, buying boards there isn't too expensive, you can get a great condition board from the previous year for about $600 and probably even less. I would bring masts booms and extensions, maybe a sail and leave the rest at home.

Sunny15 · Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Posts: 22

lol isobars. I super stoked on all the advice everyone has given me. I like the idea about bring the smaller sized board and finding myself a nice 80 L when I get there.

I'm still want to find a way to bring all 3 masts and if the airlines define a "kit" as 1 mast... then I'm not sure how to work it. I have been thinking about not bring a board at all but instead using my board bag for everything but the board... 3 masts (they're all skinny), 5 sails, boom, and then use the extra room for clothes and whatever. I feel that I'm over-thinking this but I don't want to end up being turned away once I'm checking in my bags. Dakine makes a gear bag that fits 3 masts, 4-5 sails, and 1 boom. It's nice and has wheels. If they make this bag then it's got to be ok to fly with (that's the whole point right?).

I know I could just package and ship my masts using UPS or Fed-EX. But I can't do that until after I get there and find a place to live with an address to ship to, but that's still an option.

Sunny15 · Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Posts: 22

Sorry for all the typos. I need to learn to proof read.

cbknap · Joined: 03 Jun 1997 Posts: 373

That's odd. The same deal is still there on United Airlines Special Items but now its listed as being for kiteboards:

Allowance/requirements
Kite board components are generally packed in separate bags. United will accept a maximum of one set of four component bags.

Maximum weight/size
Total weight of four component bags cannot exceed 110 pounds (49.94 kg). No one piece of equipment can weigh more than 100 pounds (45.4 kg).
(23 kg/158 linear cm)

Maximum length
109 inches (277 cm)

Other information
Allow an extra 30 minutes at check-in.

Cannot be accommodated on Airbus A320 or Airbus A319 aircraft.

It's still $100 as long as your "Kiteboard set" doesn't exceed the weight limits. (Or if you charm them and they don't weigh it.)

Zwinkt: I use a wheeled DaKine double board bag, a wheeled DaKine quiver bag that holds three sails and masts, and a padded boom bag. I've never been weighed flying LAX to Maui. Coming back I've gotten weighed almost every time ($$$).

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

We shipped for years before we bought a house here.Just give them your hotel address and tell em you are expecting it. Everywhere was happy to hold our gear for us and not surprised. Maui is like that.
It is easier to move around with your gear in a minivan. You need not carry it in at night it can just live there. Pick up or car not as good.
w also have picked up our gear at the Fedex or DHL with no Maui address or a contrived one. They hold it for you and call your number.