I have two people who can take it as a partial load on a flatbed tractor trailer. DDW is correct about the makeup of the costs, and both people will do it for about $3k which is a 1/3 load. The first guy is supposed to pick it up next week, and if he fails, the other guy can pick it up about 3 weeks later.
One complication is dealing with this remotely. "Get someone to crate it" is easier said than done. I have also now found that the dealer does not have a forklift suitable to load the trailer and boat onto a flat bed. So just getting it loaded onto a truck is proving problematic and now I'm trying to deal with that - remotely. If anyone knows of a business in Stuart Florida with good forklift capability who could load the boat, let me know. If you don't have a forklift or a loading dock, you can forget truck shipping.
The backup backup plan is still to fly to FL, rent a box truck, winch the thing into the back, and drive it to Seattle. That, by far, is the most predictable and reliable outcome, and I place a high value on that with something like this. But it also takes the most of my time. This shirt show that I'm dealing with now is probably the least predictable and reliable outcome, and frankly causes me the most stress. I give this current pickup next week a 50/50 chance of happening.
I gotta say, it's a freakin' miracle that anything in this country gets where it's going, and gets there in one piece. My personal experience with truck shipping is a 100% failure rate. Never, not once, has it gone as advertised, and never has anything arrived without at least a forklift fork hole in the box or crate, and probably 50% of the time there is actual damage to the shipment contents. So I have low expectations of the boat coming through undamaged as well.
In hind sight, I probably should have tried to get out of the deal to buy the boat in Florida. But I had a deposit paid and the boat was a custom order, so cancelling would have also meant trying to get my deposit back. Plus I just don't like to back out of a deal. And the dealer said they ship boats all the time and it was no big deal. What that turned out to mean is that I would have to figure out how to ship the boat.