FAQs
Welcome to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) archive, your resource for answers to the most common queries we receive about boat disposal and breaking.
Here, we address important topics such as how to recycle fibreglass boats, the costs associated with scrapping a vessel, the process for disposing of larger boats, and how to easily get us pictures for a quote.
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Recycle Fibreglass Boats The biggest underlying issue for end of life boat disposal is how to recycle the waste fibreglass boat hull. In many ways fibreglass or fibre-reinforced plastic (commonly known as GRP or FRP) is the perfect material for building boats. It is cheap, strong, impact resistant, [...]
Posted: 24 February 2022
If you want to send us pictures of your boat why not try WhatsApp? When you try to send us multiple photos it can be too big for them to send via email. So instead of sending multiple emails, which is time-consuming and hard to organise, send them on WhatsApp [...]
Posted: 22 August 2019
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.
Posted: 24 January 2017
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
Posted: 31 October 2016
At Boatbreakers® our aim it to be able to dispose of any boat of any size in a responsible way. We are also always trying to keep the process cost effective.
Posted: 15 September 2016
It's been a busy few months for Boatbreakers®. Apart from getting boats back to our yard from all over the country we've also recently set up our new office in Portsmouth. Our team recently had the chance of a meeting with our local MP Caroline Dineage in Gosport. We met to discuss what we see is the growing problem of end of life boats and how we aim to try and help.
Posted: 3 June 2016
Call (02392 984666), Email, Text, or Tweet @Boatbreakers. We are based in the UK and can have your unwanted vessel removed once and for all. One call to us and we do the rest. We even have a Scrap Calculator to give you some idea of what the cost of disposal might be.
Posted: 4 February 2016
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