Docking options Maui and the Big Island

[jobberone]

Originally Posted by roverhi

The lift will handle a 40 footer, don't know how much larger it will haul. They also haul large cats with a trailer though the trailer may be one they borrow from Ron Clarke.

This I didn't find out. You will have to pay a round trip fee to put it in and out. What is the fee?

[jobberone]

Originally Posted by roland stockham

Slightly off topic but may help Jobberone as well. I will be looking to leave my boat in the Hawaiian Islands from Sept to the following summer awaiting weather to go north - will fly back to Canada to work over the winter. What would the best Island be to look at, probably not Big Island but which of the smaller ones. What about places like Kauai or Ni'ihau. Also what the options for storage ashore?
The other possibility if you live their might be to get a centreboarder or cat and a very big trailer plus tractor, keep it on a beachfront property and launch from the beach like they do with lifeboats - crazy maybe but it's a though, it's how fishermen solve the problem in areas without harbors.

You cannot get near Ni'ihau as no one but the natives are allowed on or near the island except in a true emergency.

Storage is for mostly trailerable boats. You can put a boat on stands but you have to have it put in and out at expense of course. I don't know the largest boat but you must fit inside a space. IDK for sure but you likely can't put anything that large in there.