Storm Damaged Boat Disposal in Winchester
Boat Disposal in Winchester
Sometimes the boats we deal with are in perfect working order until an accident happens. This week the boat breaking team had another unfortunate boat to deal with.
Every year the UK is usually hit by a number of big storms. Whilst the vast majority of boats will escape unscathed there is always a few that are damaged. When the storms roll in to harbours they can throw yachts from their moorings. Some sink or others end up stranded on the rocks. However the most recent yacht in had slightly more unlucky circumstances.
Storm Damaged Yacht
Our latest boat in for disposal is a storm damaged yacht. Although this yacht wasn’t anywhere near the sea. She was in a compound near Winchester on a trailer. During a big storm one of the large trees came down and smashed into the yacht. As you can see from the pictures it knocked the yacht off of the trailer.
The owner of the yacht got in contact and asked us to arrange for her disposal. In terms of collection it was a simple plan. We sent our Hiab to Winchester and had the boat and trailer lifted away. If we had tried to collect the boat without a Hiab it would have been a nightmare. In our opinion the boat would have been too heavy to be able to safely winch on to our flatbed.
Damaged Trailer
Thankfully before we had arrived the owners of the compound had the fallen tree cut up and removed. It is always important to get good access around the boat when we have to lift them. This is because the longer the crane arm has to reach the less it can lift. As there was no access problems with this compound the collection was relatively straight forward. The only tricky part was righting the yacht back on to the damaged trailer.
The yacht was recovered back to the boat scrapyard for our team to strip down anything worth saving. Anything that we do save will then be listed on our Boat Scrapyard shop site or the Facebook Group.
Scrap Now Save Later
Finally, if you have a boat that has been damaged in a storm and is beyond economical repair just use our Scrap Calculator. Our team will work out the best price we can for the collection and disposal of your boat. The vast majority of the time it will be cheaper than the costly repairs or storage charges that your boat will need. Thousands of boat owners have chosen to scrap to escape the financial trappings of boat ownership.
If you have a boat sat you need to get rid off, why not take the initiative and get it removed. Just fill in our Scrap Calculator and we will send you a Free no-obligation quote of the costs involved.
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: May 31, 2022
Last Modified: June 28, 2022
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