Scrap a Motorboat

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.

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