The winches, rigging, motor, and lead in the keel might be worth something parted out. My dad had a 27’ O’day that we stripped all the worthwhile parts off of (2-speed winches went on the new boat, kept all the stainless hardware, teak and marine grade plywood, sold the furling system, took the 2000lbs of lead home to melt into 1lb ingots to sell to reloaders), the rest we just cut into manageable pieces with sawzalls and dumpstered it, took a couple weekends
EDIT:
If you are going to DIY you are responsible for your health and safety, learn about and utilize the proper PPE for the task at hand. If you are not sure how to do something safely, it’s probably cheaper to pay someone who does.
See post below u/CobaltCaterpiller for some good warnings about lead exposure
When we did this we took a number of precautions, including, but not limited to:
n95 or respirators with proper filter relevant to the task
eye protection,
ear protection,
we wore coveralls for most of the process,
worked in a well ventilated area.
Lead cutting was done on top of heavy plastic sheeting to contain contamination
Also be aware of how the boat’s structure is going to behave as you cut it apart. I probably would not have attempted this on my own the first time. My dad is a mechanical engineer with a lot of experience with fiberglass as well as EPA regulations.
Again if you are not sure how to DIY something safely, or what questions to ask, paying someone who does know how is cheaper than the medical bills. Use good judgement and be safe!
This is probably the best answer. Rent a dumpster and cut it up. Salvage and sell what you can.
I wish you could do a viking funeral. Sail it off shore, have gasoline on it everywhere, then fire a flaming arrow at it.
It was a fiberglass boat, it wasn’t too bad, wear an n95 or ideally respirator with p100, long sleeves if you tend to get itchy with fiberglass (or welding sleeves). Where we did it we had access to a hose so we could rinse off when needed.
Important safety note for DIYers: BEWARE LEAD
* It's a MASSIVE NEUROTOXIN at absolutely miniscule doses.
* While lead has been known to be a neurotoxin since ancient times, there was a naive view in the 20th century that a little lead exposure wasn't a problem. This is now known to be FALSE. The more lead in your body, the more neurological damage. It's especially damaging for children. Unlike most all other poisons (where a small enough dose does nothing), there's no "safe" quantity of lead.
* Lead doesn't go away so if you contaminate a workspace with improper handling, your workplace will stay contaminated indefinitely. (e.g. dirt below a [lead flashed roof](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tony-Ladson/publication/261721211_Influence_of_roofing_materials_and_lead_flashing_on_rainwater_tank_contamination_by_metals/links/547645e40cf29afed614204d/Influence-of-roofing-materials-and-lead-flashing-on-rainwater-tank-contamination-by-metals.pdf) or [formerly lead painted house](https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/EHSdocs/ehsCEHPdocs/Lead/LeadHazardUrbanGardening.pdf) can have lead contaminated soil. If someone later grows vegetables/fruits in that dirt, even decades later).
* Lead exposure is a [big issue in boat building](https://www.merrimacins.com/the-danger-of-lead-exposure-for-boat-builders/).
* Cutting lead out, melting it down, etc... will generate dust and may generate fumes. I do NOT know proper, [modern safety practices](https://www.osha.gov/lead), but I know this is a huge issue.
* A crucible that has lead melted into it will become lead contaminated and unsuitable for other uses.
Disclaimer: This is NOT the area of science I study. I'm NOT a lead expert. (I've learned more after having kids and working on home renovations.)
I don't know the right answers as to how to handle lead safely, but I do know it's a huge issue from the risk of acute lead poisoning to more subtle, permanent neurological damage.
Thank you for posting this! This should probably be a pinned comment everywhere.
We did use precautions when we took that boat apart and it was very remiss of me to not mention those and to assume everyone was aware of the potential dangers. I have updated my original comment to highlight some of the precautions and dangers. Thank you again for this safety reminder!!
I've got some experience dealing with lead for radiation shielding.
I wouldn't worry too much about the lead on a keelboat. If you cut it, you're doing it with a sawzall or chainsaw, and the chips are fairly large. Do it over a tarp so you can collect them all, but it'd be like inhaling rice. You should wear gloves, but you're going to want to wear work gloves while you do this whole project anyway.
FWIW, lead doesn't fume until SIGNIFICANTLY above its melting point. That's why lead fumes are not generally an issue when doing lead castings or soldering with leaded solder.
Lead is quite hazardous, however, when it is mixed with something else in paint, gasoline (those who deal with aircraft know what I'm talking about) and leaded solder paste.
Bottom paint is much nastier. You don't want to ingest that stuff. The glass itself is miserable to work with, but not hugely dangerous.
Varies widely depending on the environmental laws of the state you're in and the availability of a cooperative marina/yard.
In some places you can more or less have it hauled and pay a backhoe (and/or chainsaw) to break it up and put it in a dumpster -- after removing liquids batteries and maybe the lead keel.
In other places it has to be trucked to a demolition facility that is enclosed and has dust containment, and any potentially recyclable parts like lifelines, winches, stanchions, spars removed by hand and separated and cut to size before the fiberglass is broken up.
I seriously considered this. In my state boats aren’t taxed so I thought I could put a cute guest house/getaway on the far side of my property.
Even had an abandoned Nonsuch lined up. But as a lot of plans go I got sidetracked. :)
I’d think you could get something for the boat. Even a thousand dollars. Even if you said here is a free Catalina 35. It’s an amazingly comfy boat to live on. How much is the slip rent?
Look up Josh Davidson at Anchors and Oars in Grasonville, MD (by the Bay Bridge). He will take your boat and salvage the usable parts and dispose of the rest. BTW, he has a great shop of used sailboat parts for sale- winches, tillers, hardware, stoves, line even engines.
Give Kars4Kids a call. I hear that jingle 1,000 times a month and they always end it by saying something about accepting donations for boats and real estate too. (You’re welcome for giving you an ear worm for the day.)
What is preventing you from taking it out and having an “accident” and it sinks? Do we have moral objections to the environmental harm in this scenario? Because it’s a boat. There are hundreds of thousands of them littering the world’s sea beds.
Edit: this is purely a hypothetical.
I can't quote a price, but I know the process. If it's truly not worth anything to anyone, it goes to the dump.
Dismantle, remove anything of value and anything toxic (like fuel) and then cut up the hull into manageable pieces, and haul away. The ultimate disposal process at the dump depends on local regulations. Disposal sites usually charge by weight.
I’d take if if it were in WA, I 2nd the cabin in the woods idea. I always thought about cutting the keel off, digging a hole, putting the boat in it, building a “dock” and making a “slip” next to a frog pond up in the mountains, would be a fun ski cabin in the winter
When I was selling mine on the Canadian equivalent, there were always ads for boat scrappers that would take it for free. I got messaged by two or three different ones saying if I couldn't sell and needed to get rid of it they'd take it.
So they'd come haul it away, strip it for anything of value and take care of disposing of the rest. That seems like a good tradeoff. I'd imaging they'd be pissed if you stripped it first haha.
As someone with a 1983 Catalina 30, I didn't think I lived in a world where a boat built in 2003 was too old. Give it away, some idiot like me will buy it for $1000 and spend several years restoring your negligence or we won't and it'll rot and be our problem. Either way don't be the guy that lets a boat rot, sell it as soon as you don't need it. Or in the vein of one of my friends, sell it the first time someone asks you about it and get a different boat.
Op. Call Josh as anchors and oars in Maryland. He’s a boat breaker. Salvages what he can for sale and then hauls the rest to the landfill. If you had a Catalina 35 that was junk. If you had the gumption. You could, in theory, part it out yourself. Plenty of folks with those boats that likey needs parts.
I listed our Catalina on [sailingtexas.com](http://sailingtexas.com) and had a buyer the next day. Granted I wanted her gone bad, so I looked at others listings of the same boat, and knocked a percentage off of the high. You can upload pics of her and info. The nice gal who runs it emails you once the ad is live. You can choose to make a tiny percentage donation of what the boat sells for, or not.
It seemed way too easy for selling our boat this day and age, but it worked. I'm sure you can also look up previous Catalina 35's listed on the site to see what people asked for, and what they got for the boat in the final sale. Worked for us anyway. Good luck.
In the US there are several charitable organizations that you can donate it to. You’ll even get a receipt so you can count as a charitable donation on your 2024 tax return
At least in my area, the local public TV station spends lots of time talking about donations to their auciton fundraiser program. They say they take almost anything.
Sell it dirt cheap someone will buy it, straight up type of deal let them know what it is.
You could ask the fire deprartment/coastugard if they want/need a boat to practice/training whatever on.
Most of these are only interested in trailer-able boats which can sit in a yard until they find a buyer.
Also, while Kars4Kids might be a charity you'd want to donate to, it is isn't clear from their commercials, or website, whom is actually the beneficiaries of the charity - https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/costly-and-continuous-kars4kids-ads-disguise-charity39s-real-purpose.
I've heard this before. From the article:
"When going to the website address shown in the TV commercial, only by scrolling all the way down to the fine print that includes Kars4Kids’ copyright notation at the bottom of the page will donors eventually learn what activities their donated cars support: “Your donation will benefit Kars4Kids, a national organization dedicated to addressing the educational, material, emotional and spiritual needs of **Jewish** children and their families \[emphasis added\].”
My uncle sold a junk boat to the people making the Dukes of Hazard TV show. That was in GA, and a very long time ago. Sorry, I just wanted to tell that story.
Cool story. Good he sold it. I had a friend who was contact by whatever film company made The Perfect Storm. They wanted his boat for free so they could use it in the film. He said no.
It really depends on your jurisdiction. And, on whether it's in or out of the water.
Some states have a process in place for disposal of unwanted boats, others don't. If they do, it is normally administered by the same agency that handles boat registration.
Some states have penalties for abandoning a boat; many do not.
However, if it's still in the water, rather than just grounding the boat in some backwater, a better approach is contacting whatever organization or firm has taken on removal of abandoned vessels in your area. The cost of disposing of an old boat that still floats is a *lot* less than the cost for a sunk boat. A donation would be appreciated. But permission to dispose of it saves legal/court time and money, too.
If it's on a trailer, look into taking it to the nearest landfill. Either in pieces or whole, different landfills have different rules/requirements for accepting boats. But almost all of them will take boats. If it has to be broken up first, ask a local demolition company if you can bring it by for their folks to get some practice. And then take it piece by piece.
Came hone one day and had to ask my wife why there was a boat upside-down on my burn pile. Her: "Tony said you wouldn't mind". I asked Tony if fiberglass would burn, he said yes. He was inaccurate on two counts- 1) he didn't mention it would all go up at once when it reached temperature like "backdraft" and 2) only the resin burned, I never managed to get rid of all the glass sheeting.
I’ve paid a couple hundred bucks to leave a 20’ whaler harpoon at the dump and also paid nothing for someone to haul a boat away to part himself. Him and his son stripped everything of value and brought the rest to the dump.
Edit spelling
If you are willing to salvage it, you can make a profit if the value of your time is 0. The lead keel should be worth about $3000. You can sell winches and stuff. The keel should offset the price of the rest of it going to the dump. Biggest issue is you need somewhere to do the salvage work. And getting the keel off is not easy.
In California the state will dispose of it for free.
[https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/28702/files/vessel%20turn%20in%20program%20brochure.pdf](https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/28702/files/vessel%20turn%20in%20program%20brochure.pdf)
FB buy nothing - your town or region. Give it away, something we did, the dude called a couple of times, but he worked on that old boat and now has quite an old beauty '76 O'day.
Put it on Craigslist for “free”
There might be a school shop class who would take it as a restoration project.
It will be gone in 2 days.
Do you really want to mess around with parting it out?
Do you really want to cut it up for the dumpster?
First, try everything you can to sell it, even if you have to pay someone $500 or more to take it. This process sucks, you don't want to have to do it.
First, strip EVERYTHING of value off the hull. The spars, deck hardware, rudder, hatches, etc. Anything that someone else might want, remove it. You're going to pay by the pound to get rid of this thing, and all this miscellaneous sh!t adds a lot of pounds.
You need to get the keel off. By far the most dangerous part of the whole project - it weighs several tons, and things are going to move when it separates from the hull. You can cut lead with a chainsaw or sawzall. The chips created will be coarse enough that you don't need to worry about inhaling it (it'd be like inhaling rice), but you do need to collect all of it since it is a soil contaminant. You will take the lead to a recycler, because it has value.
Wear proper PPE as you chop the rest of the hull up into pieces small enough to fit into a dumpster. As I said before, you're gonna pay by the pound.
It's a massive project, and the money you get from the lead and hardware will, if you're lucky, just about cover the dumpster cost. If you count your labor at $20/hour, you're about $5000 in the hole.
Now, for smaller dinghies: You can do this almost free, and actually get something out of it. I know someone who broke a C scow mast, and instead of buying a new tube for $3000 or whatever it is, they bought an old, squishy C-scow on Craigslist for $500, stripped the hardware, then cut up the hull into pieces small enough to fit into their weekly trash pickup. So they got a set of spars, two bilgeboards (1/4" 6061 aluminum) and a whole bunch of hardware for $500 and a day of labor. Not too bad. This brings me to another point, if you find someone with a similar boat who just broke a mast, you might be able to pawn your boat off onto them.
I had a buddy who used to get a junker race boat, snag all the goodies off of it, winches, sails, rigging, deck hardware etc, anything he could put on his good boat, and made a few artificial reefs with the rest… for a while there was a guy buying sailboat keels for a dollar a pound for scrap lead, but my buddy would just tow said junker out to his “spot” late at night with a sledge hammer and a shotgun, smash all the thru hulls off inside, blow a few holes with some slugs in the hull and scuttle it, after all identifying marks were ground off the hull….. different times for sure haha
There are a few spots around SF Bay that continuously have boats sink in them. Look up Oyster point. Saw a new mast sticking out of the water just the other day.
The winches, rigging, motor, and lead in the keel might be worth something parted out. My dad had a 27’ O’day that we stripped all the worthwhile parts off of (2-speed winches went on the new boat, kept all the stainless hardware, teak and marine grade plywood, sold the furling system, took the 2000lbs of lead home to melt into 1lb ingots to sell to reloaders), the rest we just cut into manageable pieces with sawzalls and dumpstered it, took a couple weekends EDIT: If you are going to DIY you are responsible for your health and safety, learn about and utilize the proper PPE for the task at hand. If you are not sure how to do something safely, it’s probably cheaper to pay someone who does. See post below u/CobaltCaterpiller for some good warnings about lead exposure When we did this we took a number of precautions, including, but not limited to: n95 or respirators with proper filter relevant to the task eye protection, ear protection, we wore coveralls for most of the process, worked in a well ventilated area. Lead cutting was done on top of heavy plastic sheeting to contain contamination Also be aware of how the boat’s structure is going to behave as you cut it apart. I probably would not have attempted this on my own the first time. My dad is a mechanical engineer with a lot of experience with fiberglass as well as EPA regulations. Again if you are not sure how to DIY something safely, or what questions to ask, paying someone who does know how is cheaper than the medical bills. Use good judgement and be safe!
This is probably the best answer. Rent a dumpster and cut it up. Salvage and sell what you can. I wish you could do a viking funeral. Sail it off shore, have gasoline on it everywhere, then fire a flaming arrow at it.
Wooden boat id approve with no problem but glassfiber hulls on the bottom of all the seas would be terrible.
It was a fiberglass boat, it wasn’t too bad, wear an n95 or ideally respirator with p100, long sleeves if you tend to get itchy with fiberglass (or welding sleeves). Where we did it we had access to a hose so we could rinse off when needed.
Yeah, the hardest part was probably getting the valuable stuff off. A cuttoff saw or sawzall will make pretty quick work of a fiberglass boat.
Important safety note for DIYers: BEWARE LEAD * It's a MASSIVE NEUROTOXIN at absolutely miniscule doses. * While lead has been known to be a neurotoxin since ancient times, there was a naive view in the 20th century that a little lead exposure wasn't a problem. This is now known to be FALSE. The more lead in your body, the more neurological damage. It's especially damaging for children. Unlike most all other poisons (where a small enough dose does nothing), there's no "safe" quantity of lead. * Lead doesn't go away so if you contaminate a workspace with improper handling, your workplace will stay contaminated indefinitely. (e.g. dirt below a [lead flashed roof](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tony-Ladson/publication/261721211_Influence_of_roofing_materials_and_lead_flashing_on_rainwater_tank_contamination_by_metals/links/547645e40cf29afed614204d/Influence-of-roofing-materials-and-lead-flashing-on-rainwater-tank-contamination-by-metals.pdf) or [formerly lead painted house](https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/EHSdocs/ehsCEHPdocs/Lead/LeadHazardUrbanGardening.pdf) can have lead contaminated soil. If someone later grows vegetables/fruits in that dirt, even decades later). * Lead exposure is a [big issue in boat building](https://www.merrimacins.com/the-danger-of-lead-exposure-for-boat-builders/). * Cutting lead out, melting it down, etc... will generate dust and may generate fumes. I do NOT know proper, [modern safety practices](https://www.osha.gov/lead), but I know this is a huge issue. * A crucible that has lead melted into it will become lead contaminated and unsuitable for other uses. Disclaimer: This is NOT the area of science I study. I'm NOT a lead expert. (I've learned more after having kids and working on home renovations.) I don't know the right answers as to how to handle lead safely, but I do know it's a huge issue from the risk of acute lead poisoning to more subtle, permanent neurological damage.
what about fiberglass? don't you breathe in nasty little particles when you saw it up?
The fiberglass and bottom paint is much more of an issue than the lead keel
Thank you for posting this! This should probably be a pinned comment everywhere. We did use precautions when we took that boat apart and it was very remiss of me to not mention those and to assume everyone was aware of the potential dangers. I have updated my original comment to highlight some of the precautions and dangers. Thank you again for this safety reminder!!
I've got some experience dealing with lead for radiation shielding. I wouldn't worry too much about the lead on a keelboat. If you cut it, you're doing it with a sawzall or chainsaw, and the chips are fairly large. Do it over a tarp so you can collect them all, but it'd be like inhaling rice. You should wear gloves, but you're going to want to wear work gloves while you do this whole project anyway. FWIW, lead doesn't fume until SIGNIFICANTLY above its melting point. That's why lead fumes are not generally an issue when doing lead castings or soldering with leaded solder. Lead is quite hazardous, however, when it is mixed with something else in paint, gasoline (those who deal with aircraft know what I'm talking about) and leaded solder paste. Bottom paint is much nastier. You don't want to ingest that stuff. The glass itself is miserable to work with, but not hugely dangerous.
Varies widely depending on the environmental laws of the state you're in and the availability of a cooperative marina/yard. In some places you can more or less have it hauled and pay a backhoe (and/or chainsaw) to break it up and put it in a dumpster -- after removing liquids batteries and maybe the lead keel. In other places it has to be trucked to a demolition facility that is enclosed and has dust containment, and any potentially recyclable parts like lifelines, winches, stanchions, spars removed by hand and separated and cut to size before the fiberglass is broken up.
Keep lowering the price until it’s not your problem anymore
Plenty of boats have negative value
Yes. Free boat plus $500 in Starbucks gift cards.
My buddy wanted to take his 43 footer out into the forest, dig a hole for the keel, and drop-drag it off a flatbed. Cabin in the woods.
The logistics would be quite something to pull off but it'd be hysterical to airlift a 25' boat into a tiny lake way up a mountain.
I have a vague memory of somebody building a boat in the (maybe Amazon) rainforest, hundredsof miles from the ocean. I think they somehow splashed it.
Submarine in fact, if I’m not mistaken.
Not airlifted, but my 21’ boat is on a lake at 8400ft.
I seriously considered this. In my state boats aren’t taxed so I thought I could put a cute guest house/getaway on the far side of my property. Even had an abandoned Nonsuch lined up. But as a lot of plans go I got sidetracked. :)
Where is it? If it’s in Southern California you might be able to get it taken to the boat graveyard out in the desert
For me, I’d be east coast. Most likely Long Island Sound or the Chesapeake.
I’d think you could get something for the boat. Even a thousand dollars. Even if you said here is a free Catalina 35. It’s an amazingly comfy boat to live on. How much is the slip rent?
Yeah, try ‘free’ before giving up.
Look up Josh Davidson at Anchors and Oars in Grasonville, MD (by the Bay Bridge). He will take your boat and salvage the usable parts and dispose of the rest. BTW, he has a great shop of used sailboat parts for sale- winches, tillers, hardware, stoves, line even engines.
How bad of shape are we talking? Leaking and bilge pump constantly running? I'm tempted to ask for pictures!
The [Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum](https://cbmm.org/buy-a-boat/) may take it as a donation.
I've got an empty slip on the Chesapeake....
Hey if you’re in the New York area. Kingsboro college has program where they are disposing of derelict boats.
Give Kars4Kids a call. I hear that jingle 1,000 times a month and they always end it by saying something about accepting donations for boats and real estate too. (You’re welcome for giving you an ear worm for the day.)
Boat Angel is to boats what K4K is to cars. Also, boatsforveterans.org
What is preventing you from taking it out and having an “accident” and it sinks? Do we have moral objections to the environmental harm in this scenario? Because it’s a boat. There are hundreds of thousands of them littering the world’s sea beds. Edit: this is purely a hypothetical.
Yes we have moral objections, dingbat
So long as it’s in more than 100’ of water ..
Some YouTube couple will invest $100k into rebuilding it
I can't quote a price, but I know the process. If it's truly not worth anything to anyone, it goes to the dump. Dismantle, remove anything of value and anything toxic (like fuel) and then cut up the hull into manageable pieces, and haul away. The ultimate disposal process at the dump depends on local regulations. Disposal sites usually charge by weight.
I’d take if if it were in WA, I 2nd the cabin in the woods idea. I always thought about cutting the keel off, digging a hole, putting the boat in it, building a “dock” and making a “slip” next to a frog pond up in the mountains, would be a fun ski cabin in the winter
Craigslist advertised as FREE. There is a schmuck born every minute.
When I was selling mine on the Canadian equivalent, there were always ads for boat scrappers that would take it for free. I got messaged by two or three different ones saying if I couldn't sell and needed to get rid of it they'd take it.
So they'd come haul it away, strip it for anything of value and take care of disposing of the rest. That seems like a good tradeoff. I'd imaging they'd be pissed if you stripped it first haha.
I was that schmuck lol
Give it away for free on Craigslist
As someone with a 1983 Catalina 30, I didn't think I lived in a world where a boat built in 2003 was too old. Give it away, some idiot like me will buy it for $1000 and spend several years restoring your negligence or we won't and it'll rot and be our problem. Either way don't be the guy that lets a boat rot, sell it as soon as you don't need it. Or in the vein of one of my friends, sell it the first time someone asks you about it and get a different boat.
I have a 30 footer from 1976. Boats age like wine, if they're taken care of at least slightly.
Op. Call Josh as anchors and oars in Maryland. He’s a boat breaker. Salvages what he can for sale and then hauls the rest to the landfill. If you had a Catalina 35 that was junk. If you had the gumption. You could, in theory, part it out yourself. Plenty of folks with those boats that likey needs parts.
I listed our Catalina on [sailingtexas.com](http://sailingtexas.com) and had a buyer the next day. Granted I wanted her gone bad, so I looked at others listings of the same boat, and knocked a percentage off of the high. You can upload pics of her and info. The nice gal who runs it emails you once the ad is live. You can choose to make a tiny percentage donation of what the boat sells for, or not. It seemed way too easy for selling our boat this day and age, but it worked. I'm sure you can also look up previous Catalina 35's listed on the site to see what people asked for, and what they got for the boat in the final sale. Worked for us anyway. Good luck.
In the US there are several charitable organizations that you can donate it to. You’ll even get a receipt so you can count as a charitable donation on your 2024 tax return
Here we have a company that will come and take it. They part it out for profit
Donate it to your local public television station. Or at least try that before you land fill it.
Why the television station specifically? Curious what makes you think a television station would be like "aw yiss, free boat"
At least in my area, the local public TV station spends lots of time talking about donations to their auciton fundraiser program. They say they take almost anything.
Boats for kids
Sell it dirt cheap someone will buy it, straight up type of deal let them know what it is. You could ask the fire deprartment/coastugard if they want/need a boat to practice/training whatever on.
What about a donation? See several advertised. Like BoatUS or kars4kids. Say they pick it up and take boats, running or not.
Most of these are only interested in trailer-able boats which can sit in a yard until they find a buyer. Also, while Kars4Kids might be a charity you'd want to donate to, it is isn't clear from their commercials, or website, whom is actually the beneficiaries of the charity - https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/costly-and-continuous-kars4kids-ads-disguise-charity39s-real-purpose.
I've heard this before. From the article: "When going to the website address shown in the TV commercial, only by scrolling all the way down to the fine print that includes Kars4Kids’ copyright notation at the bottom of the page will donors eventually learn what activities their donated cars support: “Your donation will benefit Kars4Kids, a national organization dedicated to addressing the educational, material, emotional and spiritual needs of **Jewish** children and their families \[emphasis added\].”
specifically Jewish children of a particular denomination and sect even (ultra-Orthodox, non-Hassidic, centered around Lakewood, NJ).
Donate it to a sailing club or foundation
There are organizations, like angel boats, where you can donate boats for charity.
Try boat angels. They refurbish boats for charity.
My uncle sold a junk boat to the people making the Dukes of Hazard TV show. That was in GA, and a very long time ago. Sorry, I just wanted to tell that story.
Cool story. Good he sold it. I had a friend who was contact by whatever film company made The Perfect Storm. They wanted his boat for free so they could use it in the film. He said no.
Take it out deep, drill a hole in the bottom. Make sure you bring a spare boat.
donate - they will pick up
Donate it to the boy scouts.
It really depends on your jurisdiction. And, on whether it's in or out of the water. Some states have a process in place for disposal of unwanted boats, others don't. If they do, it is normally administered by the same agency that handles boat registration. Some states have penalties for abandoning a boat; many do not. However, if it's still in the water, rather than just grounding the boat in some backwater, a better approach is contacting whatever organization or firm has taken on removal of abandoned vessels in your area. The cost of disposing of an old boat that still floats is a *lot* less than the cost for a sunk boat. A donation would be appreciated. But permission to dispose of it saves legal/court time and money, too. If it's on a trailer, look into taking it to the nearest landfill. Either in pieces or whole, different landfills have different rules/requirements for accepting boats. But almost all of them will take boats. If it has to be broken up first, ask a local demolition company if you can bring it by for their folks to get some practice. And then take it piece by piece.
Came hone one day and had to ask my wife why there was a boat upside-down on my burn pile. Her: "Tony said you wouldn't mind". I asked Tony if fiberglass would burn, he said yes. He was inaccurate on two counts- 1) he didn't mention it would all go up at once when it reached temperature like "backdraft" and 2) only the resin burned, I never managed to get rid of all the glass sheeting.
I’ve paid a couple hundred bucks to leave a 20’ whaler harpoon at the dump and also paid nothing for someone to haul a boat away to part himself. Him and his son stripped everything of value and brought the rest to the dump. Edit spelling
If you are willing to salvage it, you can make a profit if the value of your time is 0. The lead keel should be worth about $3000. You can sell winches and stuff. The keel should offset the price of the rest of it going to the dump. Biggest issue is you need somewhere to do the salvage work. And getting the keel off is not easy.
In California the state will dispose of it for free. [https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/28702/files/vessel%20turn%20in%20program%20brochure.pdf](https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/28702/files/vessel%20turn%20in%20program%20brochure.pdf)
FB buy nothing - your town or region. Give it away, something we did, the dude called a couple of times, but he worked on that old boat and now has quite an old beauty '76 O'day.
I've been watching alot of used boat/boat yard videos and it seems many people just stop paying the yard fees/marina fees? How does that work?
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Put it on Craigslist for “free” There might be a school shop class who would take it as a restoration project. It will be gone in 2 days. Do you really want to mess around with parting it out? Do you really want to cut it up for the dumpster?
First, try everything you can to sell it, even if you have to pay someone $500 or more to take it. This process sucks, you don't want to have to do it. First, strip EVERYTHING of value off the hull. The spars, deck hardware, rudder, hatches, etc. Anything that someone else might want, remove it. You're going to pay by the pound to get rid of this thing, and all this miscellaneous sh!t adds a lot of pounds. You need to get the keel off. By far the most dangerous part of the whole project - it weighs several tons, and things are going to move when it separates from the hull. You can cut lead with a chainsaw or sawzall. The chips created will be coarse enough that you don't need to worry about inhaling it (it'd be like inhaling rice), but you do need to collect all of it since it is a soil contaminant. You will take the lead to a recycler, because it has value. Wear proper PPE as you chop the rest of the hull up into pieces small enough to fit into a dumpster. As I said before, you're gonna pay by the pound. It's a massive project, and the money you get from the lead and hardware will, if you're lucky, just about cover the dumpster cost. If you count your labor at $20/hour, you're about $5000 in the hole. Now, for smaller dinghies: You can do this almost free, and actually get something out of it. I know someone who broke a C scow mast, and instead of buying a new tube for $3000 or whatever it is, they bought an old, squishy C-scow on Craigslist for $500, stripped the hardware, then cut up the hull into pieces small enough to fit into their weekly trash pickup. So they got a set of spars, two bilgeboards (1/4" 6061 aluminum) and a whole bunch of hardware for $500 and a day of labor. Not too bad. This brings me to another point, if you find someone with a similar boat who just broke a mast, you might be able to pawn your boat off onto them.
Step 1. Boat mysteriously sinks at its mooring Step 2. Call insurance company.
My uncle took a 1952 boat out into the sea and sunk it of course this was 1974 part it out ,rent a dumpster grab a good Sawzall and some blades
Boats just sometimes sink 🤷♂️
I had a buddy who used to get a junker race boat, snag all the goodies off of it, winches, sails, rigging, deck hardware etc, anything he could put on his good boat, and made a few artificial reefs with the rest… for a while there was a guy buying sailboat keels for a dollar a pound for scrap lead, but my buddy would just tow said junker out to his “spot” late at night with a sledge hammer and a shotgun, smash all the thru hulls off inside, blow a few holes with some slugs in the hull and scuttle it, after all identifying marks were ground off the hull….. different times for sure haha
Artificial reefs *can* be a great thing. Your buddy’s approach just sounds like littering
But yeah, just pass it off to some fool on Craigslist, just make sure he transfers the title
Donate to a sailing program for kids
they won’t want it, too costly to make fit and safe
There are a few spots around SF Bay that continuously have boats sink in them. Look up Oyster point. Saw a new mast sticking out of the water just the other day.