Hi Wesley,
The trucking ran more than I had estimated from a rough internet search before I left California to look at Quest. In fact, it ended up being roughly equal to the cost of the boat! Trucking from North Falmouth to the boatyard in Napa was $10,500. However, there was additional trucking from Martha's Vineyard to North Falmouth, including a ferry to Woods Hole; that was another $1,340, and there was a short haul and lifting onto that truck by Vineyard Haven Shipyard, and then off that truck and onto the final truck by Fiddler's Cove Boatyard in North Falmouth, for a combined $750.
This happened in March, much earlier than the previous owner would normally have launched. My initial plan was to leave the boat in Martha's Vineyard and to return in May or June, launch her where I could rig her under the previous owner's supervision, and do a little sailing before getting her onto a truck headed for California in July. This would at least have saved the $1,340 for the first truck. As it was, realizing that the virus situation was changing rapidly, I returned to California in mid-March, just in time for the S.F. Bay Area "shelter-in-place", and Quest followed before the end of the month.
I used a trucking agent named Rob Lee, email: boattransport@comcast.net, phone (508)758-9409. I never actually paid him any money, but I assume he gets a cut from everyone involved. He lined me up directly with Joe Hazleton, the driver who got the boat from Vineyard Haven to North Falmouth, and when I couldn't get any of the three yards in the main Falmouth Harbor to lift the boat off Joe's truck, he is who found Fiddler's Cove yard for me. That part was all good. He also referred me to another trucking broker, Bill West, who lined me up with the truck to California. It was on that trip that the hull cracks occurred, probably due to improper loading and bracing by the father and son duo who were more used to hauling power boats. They did have cargo insurance, and after a survey and estimate from the yard here for repairs, I do have a claim number from their insurance company, so repairs ought to start before too long.
This is probably more than you wanted to know, but there are the numbers, as well as the saga. The cautionary tale is: supervise loading yourself (we trucked our old boat from Ventura to Napa one winter when we aborted a trip to Mexico to return to Vallejo and care for my mother for three years ashore, but we were there for the loading, and did a lot of the prep work ourselves, packing everything, stripping off the standing rigging, etc.). I hope your boat has a safer trip than mine did. It'll still be quicker than going via the Panama Canal!
Carol