Scrap a Boat

Last week an old Sabre 27 was collected for disposal from Kemps Quay in Southampton. She was once the family's pride and joy but in recent years had fallen into a state of disrepair.

This week the boat breakers team were in Oxford, waste deep in the River Thames. We had been asked to remove an abandoned boat from the river by Oxford University.

The only way was Essex for the collection team at the beginning of May. We were tasked with collecting a Snapdragon 747 from a boat club near Southend-on-Sea.

Our team were contacted by a gentleman who had an old dinghy in his driveway. The dinghy was an Osprey Mk III.

The Boatbreakers team were on the road to Dorset to remove an old Wayfarer dinghy. She had been stored on a trailer outside of the owners home for a number of years. They had now come to the realisation that she was never going to be sailed again.

The retrieval of an Orkney fast fisher from Scotland, a victim of a severe storm, presented a logistical challenge demanded meticulous planning.

One of our latest collections has been months in the making. A small, fast fishing vessel was successfully recovered from a boat yard in Lymington.

The Boat breaking team were on the road again to remove an old boat hull from a garden in Surrey. The boat hull had been a long term project for the former owner of the house.

Our Boat disposal team had a local job to remove a Westerly Centaur from her mooring in Gosport. The boat had been left untouched for some time and her owner now lived away.

We were asked to remove an old speedboat from a garage near Epsom. In a new record for us we actually managed to collect the same day as the owner gave us the go ahead.

One of our latest collections was to remove an unfinished project boat from a farmer's barn in Lymington.

Collecting end-of-life boats from remote locations often demands ingenuity and resilience, as shown by our recent retrieval from Bideford.