Scrap a Motorboat
The Boatbreakers collection team recently tackled a slightly unusual recovery job right in the heart of south Birmingham.
Posted: 18 October 2025
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.
Posted: 8 August 2025
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 [...]
Posted: 28 July 2025
Boatbreakers had another marine recycling and boat disposal mission to arrange. This time it was a rotten wooden fishing boat in Portsmouth Harbour.
Posted: 2 July 2025
Our Marine recycling and boat disposal team were in Southsea to collect an old Wilson Flyer for scrap.
Posted: 5 June 2025
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 [...]
Posted: 28 May 2025
One of our latest collections was a storm damaged Quicksilver in Devon. The boat was at a property in Dawlish.
Posted: 12 May 2025
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.
Posted: 1 May 2025
The retrieval of an Orkney fast fisher from Scotland, a victim of a severe storm, presented a logistical challenge demanded meticulous planning.
Posted: 15 April 2025
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.
Posted: 28 March 2025
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.
Posted: 13 March 2025
It's always a real shame to be scrapping an old wooden boat as it feels like losing a piece of boating history.
Posted: 2 March 2025












