Our marine recycling team were in West Wales this week to collect an Achilles 24. The yacht had been sat in a Yacht club car park in Aberaeron. Her owner wanted to step away from boating and with no luck selling he didn’t want the boat to linger on and keep costing him storage fees. He had decided that it was time to move the boat on and spend that money on something else.

The marine recycling team advised him that they would recommend he removed some of the valuable items from the boat. This way he could sell them himself and recoup some of the scrap costs. We believe there was a decent Tohatsu outboard and some new sails on board. So this should hopefully achieve at least £1,000.

At the yacht club there were no lifting facilities on site. This meant that we would have had to wait for the Achilles 24 to be lifted when they have a lift in day. The problem with this is that there is usually a big list of boats that need lifting. Plus it’s very vulnerable to being cancelled due to weather conditions. Thankfully the owner wanted to avoid this. He opted for the slightly more expensive option for us to send our Hiab truck.

The Hiab truck has the luxury of her own crane arm. So it made light work of turning up to the boat a loading her. Ultimately the owner chose peace of mind and efficiency over waiting to try and save some money. By the time he has sold some of the salvaged items from the boat he should have made a big chunk of the bill back anyway.