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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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Still more Derelicts in the news

by Douglas Gould on February 9, 2009

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 Angeles Marina on Saturday afternoon.

Jay Ketchum, owner of Affordable Services of Sequim and a professional diver, was hired by the state Department of Natural Resources to raise, secure and tow the grounded vessel to the marina, where it will be disassembled and taken to dumps and scrap yards….. [click to continue…]

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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 →

Cape May: Where Boaters BeGone

Ok, sorry for the very bad play on words on SeaTow’s new slogan, Where Boaters Belong. When some boaters in Cape May, NJ just abandoned their boats, Phil Risko of SeaTow Cape May decided to step up to the plate, or in this case, dive down into the mud. Salvage company cleans up abandoned boats [...]

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April 11, 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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