I shipped my 32 by truck from San Diego to good old Erie, PA in 1995 and it was not that big of a deal. Once the mast was down, I put in two full days of prep work stripping the mast, removing the stanchions, and filling all the stanchion holes with epoxy - but the stanchion stuff was a combination of me being persnickety and planning to reinforce the bases anyway. It was a no-brainer easy move as far as the trucker was concerned. I did a lot of work on the Erie side refurbishing the mast, cutting backing plates out of stainless steel (if only I'd known about G10 then), and painting the deck, but the only signs of the cross-country drive were some diesel soot stains on the transome that eventually came off with Soft Scrub and a Magic Eraser sponge, and a bit of varnish chafing where a cardboard box was bumping up against a cabinet. I think it cost $1 a mile, but giving the trucker two weeks of flexibility on either side so he could saddle up other cargo had a huge effect on the price. I think he ended up taking two boats on that trip, and mine was the first to get on and the last to get off.