ship parking disaster ...

i sure have, its an awesome sight. im pretty sure there just gutting the ship. like the one to its starboard.

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Darn good job

Kinda looks like my wife on the day after Christmas at the mall.

Looks like a ship breakers in India, that's the way they do it, they just drive it up on the beach as hard as they can at high tide and start cutting it up.

Perhaps this is a better link...?

http://www.youtube.com/user/swapan2u

On Google Earth search "Alang India" and check out the beach.

wow, that is a crazy sight.

You should see the methods they use for doing the breaking.

Is that were all in the yachts may eventually end up at as well?
Surely a lot of the yachts built in the 70's - 80's are going to become undesirable in the next short period of time from now

It is pretty hard to chop up a GRP Boat with a gas torch and recycle it.

Have you ever seen a big yacht scrapped?

No, I have not even heard of any yachts being scraped. Have you?

Yep, but they get scrapped in Houma Louisiana, Brownsville TX and places like that, usually the hulls are just left to finish rotting unless the price of scrap goes up (metal only). Plastic hulls ... they just typically get stripped down, towed out 3 or 12 miles depending and sunk or left in a field or lot somewhere. Old rotten wood hulls with bronze fasteners we used to have major bonfires with and then rake together the fasteners from the ashes. The old 137' minesweepers were excellent for that. We used to buy them for what we could get for the fasteners and everything else was profit. However, there's still a lot of 100+ yr old wooden hulls still around. Old black iron as well.

As for superyachts, they really aren't old enough yet, but when the current generation of boats (10 years ago on, 160'+) reaches 20-30 years of age, they'll be headed to the scrappers because they're all built with that as a design end life span where it's no longer viable to refit.

Hi,

I have only heard of one and it was not that old and was done under complete cover in a specially built shed to preserve the privacy of the Owner.

It was a famous yacht in it's day that met an unusual end to put it mildly.

Henning you must be over a 100 years old with all of your experiences. Are you refering to the 136' US mine sweeper? A fire and rake up the fasteners? Where would you do something like this?

No, not quite 100, I just stay busy doing a lot of things. Tough to make it in this business without. Yeah, could be 136, the old YMSs with the big bronze frames where the dragging gear links in. Lot's of other good high value stuff as well like the Monel tanks, the screws and shafts. Also used to salvage the mahogany doors and the latch hardware. Portlights would fetch a pretty penny as well. We did 2 of them up in Humbolt Bay and another one up on an island in British Columbia. You can't do it like that anymore though, 25 years ago you could get away with it, not now, you'd end up fined for the smoke pollution.

Modern yachts get scrapped with a chainsaw and a dumpster after anything of value has been removed.

I see a shaft zinc that looks like it still has some life in it.

Those transom flaps are huge. LCG problem?