Scrap a Motorboat

Questions & Answers about Recycling a Motorboat

There are many different types of motor boats, and disposing of them can be tricky. This page is designed to answer some of the questions you may have about what a motor boat is and what you need to be aware of when looking to recycle your motorboat.

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What is a Motor Boat?

We class a Motorboat as one of the following, Fishing boat, River Cruiser, Speed Boat, Cabin Cruiser, Ribs, Commercial Boat and Work Boats. As a rule it’s anything above 18ft that isn’t a yacht.

If the boat is under two and half tonnes we can usually transport the boat on a trailer. Anything over will require a low loader. We use professional fully insured boat transport companies to move the boats around the country for us. We simply pass the cost onto you the owner in our price.

We will usually need to see pictures of the boat so we can pass these on to the transport companies. This is just to get an idea of the hull shape.

Boats can be brought to us by water as the scrapyard is at the top of Portsmouth Harbour. This option must be pre-arranged.

If the boat has a trailer, please tell us! It can make the collection much easier and possibly cheaper for you.

Coastal boats are usually not far from marinas with lifting facilities whereas inland boats can often be some distance from an accessible slipway or a yard with a crane.

Our definition of a motorboat encompasses multiple types of boat. Therefore hull materials include GRP, Steel, Wood, Ferro cement, Aluminium, Plastic, and Carbon Fibre.

The cost of lifting the boat onto transport is simply whatever the crane operator or boat yard charges us.

If we can winch a boat up onto a trailer ourselves, we will do. This is dependent on weight and size.

We need to know exactly where the yacht is located as it has a bearing on how we collect. We collect boats from in fields, gardens, marinas, boatyards, driveways, canals, rivers, beaches, harbours and inside buildings. Wherever your boat is, once we know the details, we can make a plan to collect.

We need to know the weight of the boat so we can plan for craning the boat off of transport at our Scrapyard in Portsmouth.

We need to know the weight of the boat as we base the price on how much the boat weighs. Once the boat is broken down we have to pay by the tonne to dispose of the waste. If you have ballast on board that can be removed, you are welcome to remove it before we collect the boat.

Flares incur an extra charge to dispose of as they are a difficult item to dispose of. If you want to remove the flares yourself before we deal with the boat your price to scrap will be cheaper.

If there is a valuable working engine in the boat we can often discount the price of disposal. Sometimes if the engines are really good we can offer to take a boat on for free. As we know that we can sell the engine to cover the cost of the scrap.

However, if the engine is a non-runner we need to add to the cost as there are extra costs to properly dispose of the engine.

Insurance write off Wellcraft 192 Speedboat in for Disposal
South East Boat Breaking in Kent
50 Year Old Shetland 535 Collected and Scrapped
Microplus 501 Collected from Northampton Garden
Boat Clearance From Front Garden In Hayling Island
Scarborough Scrap Collection
Clearing Abandoned Boats from the River Itchen
Sunken Wooden Boat Disposal in Chichester
Wooden Fishing Boat Disposal
Responsible Boat Disposal in Suffolk Yacht Harbour
Burnt Speedboat Collection London
Insurance Write off Fishing Boat from Scotland
Milton Keynes Shetland Collection
Staines Speedboat Collection
Big Breaker From Bristol
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Dell Quay Ranger 27 in for Scrap
Marine Salvage and Boat Breakers in Kent
Burnt Sunseeker Disposal
Classic Wooden Boat Scrapped
Pre-Stripped Boat Collected for Disposal
Salvage of a Sunken Fishing Boat in Portsmouth Harbour
Sunken Boat in Birmingham
Boatbreakers Collect One Tonne of Opium From Bristol
Seamaster 30 Sad Scrap Ending
Dumped Boats In A Gosport Marina
Recovering a Sunken Motorboat in Plymouth.
Salvage of a Small Sunken Fishing Boat in Gosport
Stripped and Abandoned Coronet 24 Disposal
Scrap Seamaster 20 From Suffolk
Abandoned Boat Wrecks Collected From Southampton
Isle of Wight Boat Crash Disposal
Boat Disposal Devon: Drago Fiesta 600 Collected from Brixham
Boat breaking in Northumberland for the National Trust

Click on the pictures to read about some of the many motor boats we have scrapped over the years and discover some of the challenges we faced with each one.

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