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There’s money in them swamps

by Douglas Gould on July 26, 2010

Waterway waste | Abandoned boats blemish coasts – Local – TheSunNews.com.

I’ve been harping on this topic for years. Someone should suggest this topic for next year’s CPORT meeting. A useful presentation of the logistics and legalities and funding sources for derelict disposal.

Hey, if we have a partnership with the USCG, perhaps they would like to help our industry clean up the waterways?

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Too Costly to Keep, Boats Become Castaways – NYTimes.com

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by Douglas Gould on April 1, 2009

I just keep finding more and more stories like this one:

Too Costly to Keep, Boats Become Castaways – NYTimes.com.

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Seattle man accused of sinking his own yacht – CNN.com

I suppose we should get used to seeing this headline. In hard times men turn to desperate measures, eh? This story actually appeared over a week ago, but I’ve been consumed with trying to get this new WordPress site up and running. Beyond the “sign of the times” component of the story, there is something [...]

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March 4, 2009 Read the full article →

Still more Derelicts in the news

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News As reported today in the Peninsula Daily News: (in Washington state) PORT ANGELES — A boat that was marooned in Port Angeles Harbor for eight weeks is finally high and dry. The badly-damaged 36-foot Montana Drifter was towed from its partially-submerged state near the Rayonier property to the Port [...]

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February 9, 2009 Read the full article →

Derelict Disposal Company

photo: this is one way to dispose of an old boat. I rented a skip loader back in Marina Del Rey and we crushed 6 boats in one day. I received an email from Joe Velardo, who Googled “derelict boat” and found RRR. He has started a new company called Derelict Vessel Solutions. He has [...]

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February 6, 2009 Read the full article →

Derelict Boat Issue Hits the Big Time

….as in Time Magazine, which printed an article titled America’s Underwater Junkyard this week. Here is a snippet from that article: Legislation is slowly beginning to change. Since 2003, Washington State’s vessel removal program has led a crackdown on derelict boats, using ramped-up boat-registration fees as funding for the program, which has so far cleared [...]

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October 3, 2008 Read the full article →

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