Abandoned Boats
Our Boat breakers team have been tasked with removing three abandoned boats from the River Itchen.
Posted: 11 January 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfd45w9mRFY The Boatbreakers team had an interesting collection recently. We were tasked with collecting an abandoned boat from a bush in Swanick. Luckily on the day the bushes had been chopped back to give us half a chance. As you can see from the video we sent [...]
Posted: 27 September 2021
Our Boatbreakers team were back out on the water in Portsmouth Harbour last week. We had received a call from a local sailing club to ask us to remove an abandoned boat from their moorings.
Posted: 26 February 2021
Abandoned Boat Sinks in Brixham Harbour A Ferro cement hull Schooner has sunk in Brixham Harbour. It has served as a timely reminder of the costs an abandoned boat can cause. The Harbour authority now face the costly prospect of footing the estimated 100k bill for her recovery [...]
Posted: 5 February 2021
Boatbreakers are the undertakers of the marine industry. We usually get the call once a boat has reached her end of life from the owner.
Posted: 19 December 2019
Another Abandoned boat has been torched on Eastney beach. It follows the yacht we had torched before collection earlier this year.
Posted: 18 December 2019
Boatbreakers team surrounded by derelict boats. If it's not dealing with derelict boats at work it's seeing them in our spare time.
Posted: 3 October 2019
Eastney beach is a hot spot for end-of-life and abandoned boats. Over the years the Boatbreakers team has been tasked with removing many of the boats that have been ditched on the beach by former owners.
Posted: 15 April 2019
2019 has been a busy year for Boatbreaker so far. From our first day back in after the new year we had boats turning up for disposal.
Posted: 25 March 2019
A marina in Gosport has become a dumping ground for dumped boats. The problem of owners leaving a boat to rot in a boatyard is a growing issue.
Posted: 20 November 2018
Our team found this video of abandoned boats in a Bermudan Boat Graveyard on Youtube. Whilst the video is a fairly short one it shows a worrying image of how many boat yards will end up looking if boats are left abandoned by their owners.
Posted: 19 November 2018
