Scrap a Boat

Welcome to the Scrap a Boat archive. This is where you can see detailed accounts of the full boat disposal process, from the initial collection and salvage to the final responsible breaking and recycling.

Whether it’s a keel-less yacht, a submerged motorboat wreck, a fire-damaged vessel, or an osmosis-ridden cruiser, this section covers the diverse vessels and complex challenges the Boatbreakers team handles across the UK.

Boat breaking in Northumberland for the National Trust
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Posted: 17 March 2022
Marine Salvage and Boat Breakers in Kent
Marine salvage jobs are common this time of year. Especially as coastal marinas and moorings take a battering from the winter storms.
Posted: 15 February 2022
Boat Breaking in East Sussex
This week we were Boat Breaking in East Sussex. The Boatbreakers team hit the road and headed for Eastbourne to collect a small beached yacht.
Posted: 3 February 2022
Swansong for Scrap Skipper 17
The Boat breaking team were local this week to collect a yacht from Emsworth. We had received a call from an owner who needed his Skipper 17 removed from Chichester Harbour.
Posted: 3 February 2022
Neglected Boat Thick With Coral-like Tube Worm
The Boatbreakers team have been busy at the turn of the new year collecting neglected boats. Our first batch have come out of the River Itchen in Southampton.
Posted: 20 January 2022
Clearing Abandoned Boats from the River Itchen
Our Boat breakers team have been tasked with removing three abandoned boats from the River Itchen.
Posted: 11 January 2022
Boat Breakers Scrap Former German Lifeboat Hull Yacht
Boat breakers were out in Chichester Harbour this week to collect and scrap an old steel hull yacht. The yacht's steel hull was a former German lifeboat hull.
Posted: 10 December 2021
Two Dinghies Scrapped in Gloucestershire
The Boatbreakers team were out on the road again to scrap two old dinghies. This time the dinghies were in a sailing club on a reservoir in Gloucestershire.
Posted: 7 December 2021
50 Year Old Shetland 535 Collected and Scrapped
Boatbreakers pride ourselves on covering the whole of the UK. In the last few weeks we have been from Inverness to Penzance. This time we were slightly closer to home to provide a boat disposal solution in Cambridgeshire.
Posted: 19 November 2021
Boatbreakers Sunken Yacht Salvage
The next boat on the list to collect is a Westerly Centaur that had sunk on her mooring. We believe that the yacht had lost one of her keels in the mud which caused her to sink.
Posted: 10 November 2021
Rotten Wooden Boat Breaking in Scotland
The Boatbreakers team made the long journey North to scrap a boat in Scotland. Our target was an old wooden yacht that had been built in a lane near Elgin.
Posted: 3 November 2021
Pair of Scrapped Jet Skis Collected
Insurance Write Off Jet Skis Boatbreakers are always busy collecting and disposing of end of life vessels. One of our most common collections are damaged jet skis. We regularly get asked by insurance companies to collect and dispose jet skis that have crashed. It often crosses our minds [...]
Posted: 13 October 2021