Scrap a Motorboat

The Mystery of the Sunken Transocean 37: Salvage and Disposal in Southampton At Boatbreakers, we are often called in to handle the aftermath of maritime "surprises." Our latest recovery took us to Southampton, where a Transocean 37, a substantial and typically reliable motor cruiser, mysteriously sank on her mooring overnight. A [...]

The Unlucky End of a Stolen Jeanneau: Recovering a Merry Fisher 805 from Folkestone At Boatbreakers, we’ve seen boats end up in some strange places, but the story of this Jeanneau Merry Fisher 805 is particularly heartbreaking. What started as a brazen theft in Dover ended in a destructive grounding [...]

The call came in from a bustling yard on the Hamble River regarding a challenging recovery. A motorboat that had succumbed to the river and sunk on its pontoon mooring.

The call came in for a challenging recovery: a fire-damaged Fairline Sunfury 26, completely gutted and marooned on a slipway in rural Cambridgeshire.

For many boat owners, a hobby can slowly turn into a financial burden, a situation recently illustrated by a job Boatbreakers undertook in Southampton

The Boatbreakers collection team recently tackled a slightly unusual recovery job right in the heart of south Birmingham.

Boatbreakers were called to a yard to deal with a real relic. An old Colvic Watson that had been sitting on the hard for over 25 years.

Norman 20 in Oxford Our marine and boat recycling team were waste deep in the River Thames to remove an old Norman 20 boat. We had been asked by her owners to remove the boat from the mooring as she'd fallen into disrepair. Sadly the once loved boat was no [...]

Boatbreakers had another marine recycling and boat disposal mission to arrange. This time it was a rotten wooden fishing boat in Portsmouth Harbour.

Our Marine recycling and boat disposal team were in Southsea to collect an old Wilson Flyer for scrap.

Storm Damaged Boat Collection Our Boat breakers collection team were in South Wales to remove a storm damaged fishing boat. She was on a road safe trailer but her owner wanted to retain this. So like many small boat collections we had to unload the boat and then reload it [...]

One of our latest collections was a storm damaged Quicksilver in Devon. The boat was at a property in Dawlish.