Best way to ship a ski internationaly?

I know of some people who turn up at the airport with the hull (hull only) wrapped up and call it a Kayak. You have to pay extra and with the engine etc in your suit case, but its a dam site cheaper than shipping a crated ski
 
FedEx express will ship a ski from Illinois to Denmark for $2200 for everything crating it shipping insurance everything and get it there in 4 to 6 days. Or you can get it shipped in 2 days for 3500

But the cheapest places that people were quoted for my ski was around 1000 from here to Greece or denmark on a slow boat and shipping would be there in 2 to 3 weeks. but insurance was kinda iffy and the details didn't seem right. Plus the crate has to be built out of heat treated wood or a metal crate to ship it on a boat. Anything will work on a plane.
 
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