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.

Soling Solorana Racing Yacht Collected From North Yorkshire
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
Aluminium Lifeboat Removed From Garage After 51 Years
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 from Abingdon
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
Boatbreakers Hat-trick of Yacht Disposal
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
Boat Scrapyard Members react to Historic Wooden Boat Disposal
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
Elizabethan 29 Yacht Disposal
Our latest arrival at the Boatbreakers Boat Scrapyard was an Elizabethan 29 yacht. It was actually a boat that was supposed to come to us in March 2020 but Covid changed that plan.
Posted: 30 March 2021
Abandoned Yacht Disposal for Sailing Club
Our Boatbreakers team were back out on the water in Portsmouth Harbour last week. We had received a call from a local sailing club to ask us to remove an abandoned boat from their moorings.
Posted: 26 February 2021
Boat Disposal – Jaguar 25 Yacht
Our latest boat disposal collection was a Jaguar 25 Yacht. The boat was moored in Southsea Marina in Portsmouth.
Posted: 10 February 2021
Insurance Write off Fishing Boat from Scotland
Boatbreakers cover the whole of the UK and Ireland. We've spent many years plucking boats out of tricky coastal locations across the British Isles. End of life boat disposal always throws up logistical challenges as the boats are usually damaged or wrecked.
Posted: 29 January 2021
Insurance write off Vindo 32 Yacht
It's always a shame to see nice boats coming in to the yard for disposal. The latest boat to come into the scrapyard was a Vindo 32. The Vindo yacht had been written off by the insurance company as the costs of repair outweighed the value of the boat.
Posted: 20 November 2020
Scrap Seamaster 20 From Suffolk
Our latest scrap boat in for disposal was a Seamaster 20 river boat from a yard in Suffolk. The boat was out of the water for years.
Posted: 20 October 2020
Prelude 19 Scrap Yacht Collection
Our Boatbreakers team was back out in the local area this week to remove a small yacht from Hardway in Gosport. The boat was a small Prelude 19 Yacht.
Posted: 14 October 2020