In my quest to purchase my 396 I had little luck finding good info on what was required to disassemble for transport load height. Over the last few weeks I successfully got it out of a landlocked lake in northern New Mexico and it was Splashed two weeks later in Southern Ca. In the end I was under budget and with some luck had no real issues. Here is how it went:

1) Disassembled/loosened everything possible before having it pulled from the lake, isinglass, canvas, bridge seating, removed all necessary hatches/covers.

2) Contracted with Transport to haul out using a water launch Hydraulic trailer. I was required to move it into the Marina dry storage so that the State could de-contaminate before transporting across state lines. Check out this Hydraulic trailer, It's extremely nice! makes my 40' boat look small. These guys had to make a 12 hour round trip for 1hr of work to pull the boat out of the water up to storage. (same company that transported) 3) Finished Disassembling in dry storage, removed Props, Rudders, Hardtop, Radar Arch, Venturi (helm windshield) and the Helm. By removing the Helm I was able to get the load ~10" lower.

4) Contracted a crane to place the boat on the transport trailer (different trailer than was used to pull from water) and to lift the hardtop, radar arch and helm. All were stored on the boat, helm in front, hardtop and radar arch in back. Ready to roll out.. 2 days later arrived in San Diego
5) Basically reversed the disassembly process and did required maintenance, bottom paint, Zinc's, and I had it buffed out ($OUCH$). Finally Splashed!, First time the boat has seen salt water. We took it for a nice long ride in the Pacific yesterday and it ran very well.