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At Boatbreakers® we want to start making more noise about the growing issue of boat recycling. We feel that the marine industry is about to wake up to the fact that something must be done to deal with the thousands of boats that are or will soon become floating scrap. If you are a boat owner, boat lover, or boat blogger we want to hear what you have to say.

Another article from the NautiExpo e-magazine site that we've recently enjoyed reading. This time the article focuses around the Dutch practices of boat recycling.

At Boatbreakers we always enjoy reading articles written about the subject of Boat Recycling. Recently we came across two articles on the NauticExpo e-magazine site that we found to be an interesting read.

Boatbreakers® were recently called by a marine surveyor to come and recover a fire damaged scrap boat from Pyrford Marina in Surrey. The boat was a Freeman 22 riverboat which was completely gutted by the blaze.

It's not an unusual sight to see boats in people's front gardens, especially on the South Coast. However, when the boat is a 37ft fin keel yacht it becomes quite an imposing landmark. The boat had been in her current position since 2006 when she was taken out of the water and onto the stand so her owner could carry out repair works to her.

Seeing an old wooden boat scrapped is always a sad sight, even for us at Boatbreakers®. But sometimes the problems with them and the costs far outweigh the value, so if nobody wants her it's time to be scrapped.

Boatbreakers® may soon be involved in a British/French study in disposing of end of life boats. We were asked to write some text outlining what it is we do as a busniness. Whilst we wait to hear if the study will get the official go ahead we think the information in the statement might be interesting to read.

In 2015 we were contacted by a local marina that had a boat on a mooring which was in a sorry state. It was a catamaran that had clearly been neglected by her owners who had subsequently stopped paying their mooring fees.

A common question we get asked it why we have to charge you the customer to scrap your boat. First of all, there are times where we can take boats on free of charge if they have recoverable items we can recover our costs from. But back to the question, the answer is simply that there are costs that we can't avoid, and neither could you if you followed the same process we do.

From everyone at Boatbreakers® we wish all of our former and future customers a very Merry Christmas and a happy 2017.

As I was writing this post we actually had a fresh enquiry in that was exactly what this post is about. A boat in a marina near London has clearly been left un-maintained for too long and has now started to sink. This has made a tricky boat removal even trickier as now the boat has to be pumped out and re-floated.

At our Boatbreakers® yard in Portsmouth we are happy for customers to come in and purchase all manner of boat bits. However we must stress that this is by appointment only