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Reasons To Recycle Your Boat with Boatbreakers™

Here are 8 key reasons to scrap your boat with Boatbreakers

Boatbreakers™ is often highlighted for its commitment to responsible disposal. They aim to reuse, recycle, or recover materials, ensuring a minimal environmental impact. For some parts, particularly the challenging GRP (fibreglass) hull, they can use methods like energy recovery to avoid sending it to a traditional landfill.

Scrapping a boat involves significant effort, the safe handling of hazardous materials (like fuel and oil), and legal compliance. Boatbreakers™ provides a specialist, end-to-end service, taking care of all the logistics, dismantling, and required paperwork, giving you peace of mind. It’s also a much quicker process than the long drawn out effort of trying to sell your boat.

To offset the cost of disposal, Boatbreakers™ will salvage any reusable components, such as engines, fittings, and electronics. These parts can be sold through their sister site, Boat Scrapyard, providing affordable parts for other boat owners and contributing to a circular economy.

Save on Mooring Fees! An unwanted boat can incur continuous expenses like marina or mooring fees, insurance, and maintenance. By scrapping the vessel, you immediately eliminate these recurring bills and the liability associated with an old, deteriorating, or abandoned craft.

Boatbreakers™ offers a nationwide (UK) service, with the ability to collect or recover your boat from various locations, including marinas, boatyards, gardens, and even difficult spots. This is a crucial service, as arranging transport for an end-of-life vessel can be one of the biggest challenges for an owner.

Entering our 20th Year as a company specifically dedicated to boat disposal, they possess the specialist knowledge, equipment, and network required to handle vessels of all types and sizes, including managing complex materials like fibreglass safely and efficiently.

This reason addresses a common, yet emotionally complicated, scenario for many people. Eliminating an Unexpected Burden: Inheriting a boat often means acquiring a significant, unwanted liability. You inherit not just a vessel, but also the associated costs like mooring/storage fees, insurance, and the ongoing maintenance requirements (which can be substantial for an older boat).

The Stress of Disposal: For someone with no interest or experience in boating, trying to sell or dispose of an inherited boat can be incredibly stressful, time-consuming, and confusing. Boatbreakers™ provides a single, simple solution to clear that asset and the associated responsibilities from your life quickly and professionally.

While boat disposal often involves a cost due to the complex nature of GRP (fibreglass) and logistics, Boatbreakers’™ model is designed to offset this cost significantly, and in some cases, eliminate it entirely.

Potential for Zero Cost: If your boat has valuable, modern, or sought-after components (like a good engine, a trailer, recent sails, or functional electronics), the salvage value generated can be high enough to completely cover the costs of collection, dismantling, and disposal. In these scenarios, the disposal is effectively free to the owner.

Boat Disposal and Recycling Specialists

Boat Breakers are the boat disposal experts. When you have a problem boat, trust our boat breaker experts to provide a full-service for yacht, motorboats & personal water craft collection, recycling & disposal solution throughout the U.K. and Europe. Upon receipt of your instruction we will handle all aspects of boat recovery, transportation, storage and disposal as required. We offer and always deliver a professional service to find solutions for end of life boats and insurance write-offs.

Boat Dispoal Experts

All we need to know is what and where the boat is, and we’ll do the rest. You can provide those details through our easy to use Scrap Calculator. Our boat breaking team can usually have a yacht, motorboat or jetski collected and disposed of within a week of your first instruction from anywhere in the UK including Ireland. At Boat Breakers we understand that with boats time is money, so we ensure our service is as cost effective as possible. Disposing of a boat can often be a sensitive process for a boat owner as the vessel is often part of the family, however at Boatbreakers™ we try to make the boat recycling process as smooth as possible.

Boat Recycling Centres

We work with our boat recycling centres to ensure that we send as little material as possible to landfill. To collect our scrap boats, the Boat Breakers team use experienced, professional and fully insured boat transport companies. By using local boat transport companies this also helps to keep the costs down for the boat owner.

Our only time restrictions are our pre-booked jobs, boat haulage company’s schedules or booking lifts at boatyards. Our boat recycling centres are always ready to accept end of life boats for disposal. We are happy to collect and dispose of boats all across the UK.

The Recycling & Scrap Process

Complete our online form

Providing as much info about the boat as possible, along with some recent pictures.

Contact

We’ll be in contact with you within 2 days with a quote to discuss with you further.

Accept the Quote

You accept the quote and make payment, then we dispose of your boat.

Boatbreakers™ Services in a Nutshell

Scrap Solutions With A Personal Approach
Boat Transportation & Collection
We Come To You To Dismantle
Dive Teams Available
Free, No Obligations Quotations
Waste To Energy & Recycling
Recycled Boat Parts For Sale
Cash Offers Made On Selected Boats
Scrap Your Boat

Is your boat decaying? Abandoned? Sinking? Boats left untouched cause pollution & damage to the environment. Boat Breakers can help you chose the environmentally friendly way to recycle your boat!

Trade Your Boat

Is the cost of boat ownership too expensive? You never use her & you need to quickly sell your yacht or motorboat, clear a debt or get some quick cash? Boat Breakers can help!

Boats & Parts For Sale

We sell yacht and motorboat parts, dinghies, inboard engines, outboard engines, new & used chandlery & so much more. All recovered from recycled boats. Looking for a specific boat part? Our Boatscrapyard Shop can help!