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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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