reelfishin
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Re: How to scrap a fiberglass boat hull
I scrapped and parted out over a dozen last year alone, the local landfill here takes boats so long as there's no fuel tank. The most I've paid was $42 and that was a 24' cuddy cabin that was pretty well soaked throughout.
I've also smashed up a few with a backhoe and put them out piece by piece with the trash. If I catch the right crew, sometimes they'll crunch up a whole boat in one shot for a few beers. (Beer is an excellent motivator).
It's usually just easier and cheaper to just take it to the landfill. There is a few places that are starting to pay for fiberglass as a recyclable material but they are few and far between. There is on someplace in MD, but it's not worth the haul for me from NJ.
I've seen a few towed offshore and sunk but you can bet that getting caught would be far more expensive than the dump fees. I've also seen a few just ghost launched, sort of a launch and leave deal, if it floats, it usually beaches itself down stream or heads out to see. I've run across a few like that in the river. One of my boats came to me that way, someone had abandoned it and just launched it and set it a sail in the ocean. I found it bouncing in the surf and went through the long process of getting a title.
I've done a few with the backhoe method, I can vouch for the fact that a 15' trihull will fit in two trash cans if properly pulverized with the hoe and bucket. If you have access to a track machine, it makes the boat nice a flat and a few moving turns on top and all you need to do is sweep up the remains.
I scrapped and parted out over a dozen last year alone, the local landfill here takes boats so long as there's no fuel tank. The most I've paid was $42 and that was a 24' cuddy cabin that was pretty well soaked throughout.
I've also smashed up a few with a backhoe and put them out piece by piece with the trash. If I catch the right crew, sometimes they'll crunch up a whole boat in one shot for a few beers. (Beer is an excellent motivator).
It's usually just easier and cheaper to just take it to the landfill. There is a few places that are starting to pay for fiberglass as a recyclable material but they are few and far between. There is on someplace in MD, but it's not worth the haul for me from NJ.
I've seen a few towed offshore and sunk but you can bet that getting caught would be far more expensive than the dump fees. I've also seen a few just ghost launched, sort of a launch and leave deal, if it floats, it usually beaches itself down stream or heads out to see. I've run across a few like that in the river. One of my boats came to me that way, someone had abandoned it and just launched it and set it a sail in the ocean. I found it bouncing in the surf and went through the long process of getting a title.
I've done a few with the backhoe method, I can vouch for the fact that a 15' trihull will fit in two trash cans if properly pulverized with the hoe and bucket. If you have access to a track machine, it makes the boat nice a flat and a few moving turns on top and all you need to do is sweep up the remains.
