Boat Disposal for Owner Living Abroad
Boat Disposal For Ex-Pat in Dubai
Last week the Boat breaking team had a local collection from Haslar Marina in Gosport. It’s always nice when we get tasked with local boats as we can go and see them in the flesh. This boat was a small yacht that had been in the marina’s yard for a number of years. Her owner was living abroad so he was paying storage for a boat he was never seeing. When our team visited the boat to check her over she was full of water.
Our price to collect and scrap the boat would have been less than another year’s storage. For the owner really it was a no brainer. He had saved himself the hassle of fixing up or selling the boat and saved himself the ongoing costs. Just to get this boat back on the water would have taken a couple or days at least to empty the water, dry her out and clean her.
No Chances with Trailers
The collection itself was relatively straightforward as we just had to turn up with our trailer and winch her on. The trailer the boat was on wasn’t safe to tow in our opinion. We never take a chance on old trailers as there have been times we have had trailers collapse.
We regularly deal with boats for ex-pats that now live abroad. Hopefully they appreciate the effort our team will go to when lining up the collections. When owners are in different time zones or only contactable by email it can be tricky to liaise with marinas on arrangements.
Scrap Calculator
If you live abroad and have a boat sat in a British boat yard why not look to scrap. It can usually be arranged within a fortnight and will help you escape the costs of having a boat you don’t see. Just fill in our Scrap Calculator and we would be happy to put a plan together for your boat.
Written By: Luke Edney
Luke completed a journalism degree in Brighton University and fortunately for us uses this in his communications, Facebook posts, Tweets and emails to tell all our enquirers and followers what we are up to. Without Luke we would be lost, he runs the office, keeps us organised and is like a terrier and never lets a tricky boat disposal job go un-photographed or Tweeted about.
He also manages all of our enquiries passing them to whoever in the team is the best suited to deal with it. We are teaching Luke how to drive a motorboat or sail a yacht so while he’s learning we suggest you keep out of the Solent!
When he’s not at work he’s a massive football fan (his Dad used to play for Portsmouth FC years ago) and seems to know everything there is to know about any player, anywhere. Next time you ring and he answers, think of a tricky football trivia question and ask him
Date Published: July 18, 2022
Last Modified: July 22, 2022
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