Scrap a Motorboat
Welcome to the Scrap a Motorboat archive. This section documents our experience with the disposal and recycling of various powerboats, including fishing boats, cruisers, and speedboats.
Read about our challenging collections, such as sunken wrecks and storm-damaged vessels, and see how we handle everything from classic Norman river boats to fast fishers and long-abandoned hard standing projects
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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
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
A speed boat collection from Staines started off our December. It's usually a very quiet month for us as the country gears up for Christmas.
Posted: 2 December 2019
Last week the team had a call from a lady in London. Her speedboat had been caught up in a houseboat fire.
Posted: 4 September 2019
A marina in Gosport has become a dumping ground for dumped boats. The problem of owners leaving a boat to rot in a boatyard is a growing issue.
Posted: 20 November 2018
A Dell Quay Ranger 27 arrived in the yard today for disposal. If you are looking for parts for a Ranger 27 please get in contact fast as she won't be around for long.
Posted: 15 November 2018
The latest boat to roll into the yard is a timely reminder of the damage that fire can do. Before the blaze the boat was a working Sunseeker 36 and would have been worth around £50,000.
Posted: 9 November 2018
One of the perks of collecting boats from all over the country is that we get to visit some great places and meet some lovely people. Last week we were asked to come and collect an old Shetland from Milton Keynes. All we knew about her was that the Suzuki engine was probably dead and she’d been moored at the end of the garden for a number of years without any use.
Posted: 12 June 2018
There's nothing like a long haul road trip to welcome a team member back from a holiday. With Luke still enjoying the jet lag that follows a 12 and a half hour flight we set off at 5am and headed north for Scarborough to collect a Scrap Boat.
Posted: 1 May 2018
In March, our Boatbreakers yard in Portsmouth had a rather large visitor to the yard. For anyone driving along the M275 into Portsmouth she was easy to spot, laid up on the Scrap Quay.
Posted: 25 March 2018
We were recently contacted by an Insurance company and asked to get up to Birmingham as soon as possible as there was a boat taking on water fast that needed to be disposed of. As you can see from the pictures when we got to her she was starting to resemble a Submarine.
Posted: 23 March 2018
The Boatbreakers team were asked by an insurance company to come and remove a motorboat that had broken free from her mooring, washed up on a beach and been tied up against the sea wall in Plymouth.
Posted: 5 March 2018
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