Scrap a Boat

At Boatbreakers, we often say that every boat has a story. This was certainly true for the Westerly GK24 we recently collected from a quiet boatyard in Essex.

At first glance, the Sadler 32 we recently collected from Chichester Marina looked like a dream boat.

At Boatbreakers, we often see the same cycle. A project boat starts with high hopes but eventually becomes a burden to the owner. Not to mention a "fixture" in the boatyard.

The Reality of the "One Pound" Boat: Saying Goodbye to a Lymington Centaur In the boat disposal business, we see a lot of legendary hulls come through our gates. Few are as iconic as the Westerly Centaur. Known for their rugged build and "go-anywhere" attitude, they are usually the darlings [...]

The Unlucky End of a Stolen Jeanneau: Recovering a Merry Fisher 805 from Folkestone At Boatbreakers, we’ve seen boats end up in some strange places, but the story of this Jeanneau Merry Fisher 805 is particularly heartbreaking. What started as a brazen theft in Dover ended in a destructive grounding [...]

The call came in, familiar in its regret: another cheap project that never quite got off the ground. This time, it was a small Hurley yacht tucked away in Dell Quay, near Chichester.

The Boatbreakers team headed across the border to Penarth Marina in Wales for the collection of a Jaguar 27 yacht.

The Boatbreakers team was dispatched to Dell Quay in Chichester to handle the recovery of an insurance write-off: a Jeanneau Arcadia yacht.

The call came in from a bustling yard on the Hamble River regarding a challenging recovery. A motorboat that had succumbed to the river and sunk on its pontoon mooring.

The Boatbreakers team journeyed to a quiet countryside garden near Wolverhampton for a sensitive clearance job.

The call came in for a challenging recovery: a fire-damaged Fairline Sunfury 26, completely gutted and marooned on a slipway in rural Cambridgeshire.

The Boatbreakers team headed to a property in Wimborne for what seemed like a straightforward job. Collecting an old, (but heavy) Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB).