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How do I get rid of boats??
Help!
I don't know where to turn! I've called Marinas and Boat Dealers and no
one has an answer for me. Does anyone know of places that take old junk
boats? Are there boat junkyards? If there are, they are a big secret!
I have two 1970s 17 ft fiberglass boats. Only one has an engine in it
(inboard/outboard), and that doesn't work. My husband doesn't think
either are salvagable (he used to!)
Neither boat has a floor. My husband ripped the floors out because they
were rotten. He was intending to fix them up but it became too big of a
project.
And, we only have one boat trailer between them.
Now, we are moving and don't want to haul these junk boats to our next
house! We live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul suburbs and cannot find out
any information about what to do with these boats.
Believe me, no one would want these!!
Thanks for any guidance you can give!
Wen |
wendizzle
Jun 21
2006
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| To Solo Thesailor, I am terribly sorry for calling you a male!!!
Forgive me? Solo Thesailor wrote: |
wendizzle
Jun 23
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| Around my parts there are "recycle marine" stores that may take this
type of boat. You may try googling a bit in your area for such
a business. b. |
Jun 22
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| Anytime I have something that has a little value but not worth selling, I
just put it at the intersection of our street and a very busy road with a
FREE sign. It has never been there when I have returned a few hours later
and twice it was gone before I left! I live in the country but it worked in San Mateo when I lived there too.
Dish washers, toilets, run out tools, ... you just never know. |
Mark
Jun 22
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| I would like to give a big THANK YOU to all of your thoughtful,
insightful, puzzling and 'creative', ideas for getting rid of our
boats. (special thanks to Solo Thesailor for his varied uses for them
which I never would have thought of in a million years!) I do think we are going to try the freecycle route. The part I'm not
looking forward to is after posting the ad in freecycle. I'm sure it's
going to be like selling a used car with an ad in the newspaper. People
will want to "stop by and take a look;" then, we have to wait around
for people to show up, then if they do, they will ask questions that I
will have no answer for; like, "do they leak?" I'll have to say, "I
have no idea." I guess that's our problem from the beginning, since we're moving, we
don't have time to act as salespeople while people hmm and haw over a
free boat, we just want them gone yesterday!
Thanks again! |
wendizzle
Jun 23
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| Good luck, wendizzle. Moving is a big challenge, later when you have a
couple of minutes please drop us a line what happened with the boats,
so we learn from it and it might even be a good laugh. Any question
that might need creative ideas just send it my way.
BTW I am not a he, I am a she... :)
Solo Thesailor
http://sailingstoriesandtips.blogspot.com Read what kind of adventures
one can get oneself into |
Solo
Jun 23
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| UPS them to
Dave Mann
South of Witch-eye-taw
Kansas |
Harry
Jun 21
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| Call up one the charities that sells on Ebay, they will take almost
anything. There are people who will buy them for the parts etc. |
dewers
Jun 21
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| Try putting them on Craigslist.org as "give away"
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Del
Jun 21
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| Ok, here you go. 1. Call your local waste management company, and ask to have a big
dumpster hauled out to your address. Something the size of one of those
containers they strip roofing into, etc, should suffice. 2. Suit up with goggles, gloves, and a decent quality mask. A
disposable paper "painter's suit" wouldn't be overkill, either. 3. Spread a tarp out on the ground and drag the first old fiberglass
hulk onto it. 4. Cut it into small pieces with a chain saw. 5. Throw the small pieces into the dumpster. 6. Repeat with second old fiberglass hulk. 7. Fold up tarp containing all the FRP shavings and toss it into the
dumpster as well. 8. Call waste management company and have the whole works hauled away. It will likely cost you a couple of hundred bucks or so for the
dumpster delivery and the dump fees. Plus you'll screw up a saw chain
(or two) in the process. |
chuckgould.chu...
Jun 21
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| most waste management companies will take em if you drive it there... |
Dan
Jun 21
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| I have one of those dumpsters coming tomorrow for my bathroom re-model
project. If the original poster can get his pieces up here within a
week, he's welcome to toss them aboard...for a modest fee.
I might use a recipicating saw for the breakup though. (Sawzall) |
Don
Jun 21
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| well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: |
Gene
Jun 21
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| I agree......that was pretty funny. ;-) |
Jun 21
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| > |
Wayne.B
Jun 21
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| Put an ad in the paper and sell it for a few hundred bucks. Not free,
because they will think it's no good. Or, take it to a dry storage
yard, pay one month's rent in cash, and abandon it. |
Keith
Jun 21
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| Call a regular junk yard or the local municipal dump. Worst case you'll
have to make two trips with the one trailer. |
Bill
Jun 21
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| No, no, no. Bad advice on abandoning it in a storage yard. Scenario: You take your $200 boat to the dry storage yard. Most are
going to be savvy enough not to accept one-month's cash rent from an
anonymous tenant with an obviously junked out boat. You will need to
fill out papers with your name, address, phone number, etc. You will
likely need to show ID, or even furnish a copy of the registration for
the boat.
The paperwork you sign will make you liable for any "deficiency"
difference between unpaid storage charges and the amount the storage
yard realizes after they finally
go to court, perfect a lien, and sell your "abandoned" boat. So a year goes by. You continue to ignore the $100 per month bill
you're getting in the mail for storage. With "late fees" you're up to
$1500. The storage yard hires an attorney to go to court and obtain an
order extinguishing your interest in the boat. Attorney fees and court
costs are billed at the highly inflated level of $1000, so now your
unpaid obligation is $2500. The storage yard sells the boat for $100, but they claim it costs them
$50 to advertise the boat for sale so you still owe $2450. They demand
that you pay, and you say "go to heck" (or worse). The storage yard's
attorney goes back to court to get a writ of garnishment, posts another
highly inflated $1000 legal fee, and you now get to see $3450 deducted
from your paycheck. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, your mortgage
application to buy that "dream home" or refi your present pad goes into
the lender's shredder due to the "bad credit" created by the unpaid
judgment. What goes around, comes around, and anybody out to deliberately screw
over a storage yard by abandoning junk there deserves what will
ultimately come 'round and bite them on the transom. Much better just to handle your own problem rather than try to pass it
down the line to somebody else. |
chuckgould.chu...
Jun 21
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| Hmmmm.... dunno... What's trash for one is treasure for another. Is the
deck in ok condition? Maybe some large playground can sink one in sand
and turn it into children's adventure land. Maybe a farm/ranch can use
it as a feature, on land or in a lake. Maybe someone wants to sink it
in a very shallow lake and turn it into a little island. Maybe a
plant-nursery would like to deck it with flowering pot plants. Maybe an
antique shop wants one if it's near the sea/water, for ambience effect,
or if it's so far in land or deep in a desert, for a shock effect.
Maybe someone would make an oasis out of it and draw tourists and
thirsty people. Maybe it would be turned into the front of a pub. Maybe
a restaurant/cafe could turn one into a dine-on-a-yacht place. Maybe
someone will put it on a small patch of land and turn it into an art
studio, or a a granny flat or a teeanager den or a workshop. Maybe
someone has a great strong hull but want to replace bits on top. Maybe
another husband of someone thinks it's salvageable.... Would be great if things can be passed for use and not just trashed.
Would you have time to leave several ads of 'free to good home' for a
few weeks and also write letters inviting local councils/counties (or
whatever you call them in your country)? Do you have Tradingposts
(papers advertising secondhand items)? Hobbyists scour them. Would you
stick some ads up in boat/yacht/sailing clubs? Do you have local radio
stations you can ring in and ask for advice from listeners what to do? Let us know what happens....
Cheers
Solo Thesailor
http://sailingstoriesandtips.blogspot.com |
Solo
Jun 22
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| I would look in the newspaper classifieds or yellow pages for scrap or
trash haulers, or those independant "handyman" types that advertise
hauling or cleanup services.
Pay them to come and haul those old junk hulks to the landfill. They
generally don't charge that much and might even be willing to to some
trading, if the trailer is in good shape offer to let them use it drag
the old boats away and they get to keep the trailer as all or part of
the pay. Good Luck
George wendizzle wrote: |
George
Jun 22
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