So Will, I failed the reading and comprehension test. Somehow, I figured you were driving to the factory, not a trucking depot. Of course, you would be crated the same as I was.

The good news Will is that I used my old trailer to take the crates 60 miles to the lake. It took me about 2 hours to uncrate the boat and admire everything. The afternoon was occupied with assembling the hulls, beams and trampoline. I also had the mast mostly rigged although I spent some time the next day adjusting the diamond tension. The mast went up at noon on Sunday and I spent the afternoon playing with the spinnaker.
One word of advice that was passed down to me was to attach the mast rotator to the mast before cranking on the diamond wires. There is a compression tube that has to be inserted in the foot of the mast and that will be much easier with the base removed.
This is a photo of an opened crate on the trailer. I screwed a piece of wood between the crates near the aft end to support the mast tube. I also had to spread my forward mast support a bit to take the tube. I made myself a long wiring harness with a pair of tail lights and screwed these lights onto the crates.
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