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.
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Our most recent boat in to be scrapped was a Moody 27 Yacht which was collected from Darthaven Marina.
Posted: 1 October 2021
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
Westerly Nomad Collected for Disposal One of our latest jobs was to collect a Westerly Nomad from the Grand Union Canal. The yacht is not the sort of boat you would expect to find on the inland waterways. However there was no mast or rigging and she'd been converted [...]
Posted: 14 September 2021
Boatbreakers in The Wirral The Boatbreakers team were back on the road this week to collect a yacht from The Wirral. We had an email from a couple who had a boat next to their driveway. It had been sat on a road trailer but it was now [...]
Posted: 7 July 2021
Boatbreakers Sailing Dinghy Disposal The Boatbreakers team have been busy scrapping dinghies. Just like larger boats dinghy owners still find themselves in a position of being unable to sell but still paying for storage. We usually have a steady flow of dinghies coming in for scrap throughout the [...]
Posted: 25 June 2021
The Boatbreakers team were in Devon to scrap an old wooden yacht on a farm. Typically for the team the day the job was booked for ended up being the hottest day of the year so far!
Posted: 25 June 2021
Our most recent boat in for disposal was a storm damaged Wellcraft 192 from Poole. The Wellcraft speedboat was caught in stormy conditions and it seems to have flooded before sinking on her mooring.
Posted: 20 May 2021
Another day and another yacht through the Boat Scrapyard. However this tired looking yellow fin keeled yacht on a trailer had an interesting life.
Posted: 14 May 2021
Over the years the Boatbreakers team is well used to dealing with boats that haven't moved for a number of years. This week we collected a boat that has been sat in a garage for 51 years.
Posted: 12 May 2021
Four Scrap Boat Collection After the success of our recent hat-trick of boat removals in one day, the Boatbreakers team went one better. This time the team managed to remove and dispose of four boats at once from a garden in Abingdon. Admittedly the four boats that we [...]
Posted: 7 May 2021
The Boatbreakers team have had an extremely busy spring so far. This week we even had three yacht collections in a single day.
Posted: 30 April 2021
Whenever the Boatbreakers team deal with an old wooden boat the chances are it will have significant history behind it. We always notice that emotions run highly with wooden boats and so they should.
Posted: 8 April 2021
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