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Derelicts

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 →

TowboatUS Sebastian/Melbourne Lands more derelict disposal work

After some very lucrative work last year [read my post here], Absolute Towing & Salvage of Melbourne, FLA has received another nice derelict disposal contract: Derelict boats to be removed from Indian River : Indian River County : TCPalm Job: Remove seven derelict boats left since 2004 hurricanes from the Indian River Lagoon in Indian [...]

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July 21, 2008 Read the full article →

More Derelict Disposal News

Just another little news article about abandoned vessels, and what might be done. Queens Chronicle – ‘Operation Clean Bay’ Aims To End Vessel Abandonment ….a task force — comprised of the National Park Service and U.S. Coast Guard, the NYPD, the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the city Department of Environmental Protection — to [...]

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May 30, 2008 Read the full article →

Wreck Removal Coverage

I was snooping around on the Progressive Insurance website, when I came across this item about boat insurance: Wreckage Removal coverage is automatically included with Comprehensive and Collision coverage. If you use Comprehensive or Collision coverage, Wreckage Removal pays for reasonable costs you incur for any attempted raising, removal or destruction of the wreckage of [...]

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April 5, 2008 Read the full article →

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