John, I guess in that respect we were lucky that we bought Flopsy as a non runner, she got trailered everywhere while still on 'terra firma' and during the sailing was in a container - at Tilbury she was stored in a huge warehouse - which was lucky for us as the drivers side electric window was missing - so she didnt get wet or vandalised (not that you would have noticed, the state she was in!). Also she stayed on the same ship all the way, so there was no risk to her by being dropped off in other ports on the way to Essex. Cheers, Claire #2292 VUR594W --- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "John Dore" <dmcjohn@xxxx> wrote: > When I left the car in New Jersey I took note of the mileage. Somehow > it racked up 12 miles being driven onto a very nearby boat, being > unloaded, reloaded on a different boat and arriving in Cork. I was > not too happy about that either, I'm sure there was an element of > driving for fun there by one of the port workers either in NJ or > Belgium. When I ship my car back to the USA I'm going to put it in a > container. > John