Pontoon Boat Removal in St. Simons Island, GA

A pontoon on St. Simons tends to sit where the water is close: on its trailer beside a Harrington Landing house or up on blocks at a north-end place on Hampton Point.

Up that way the island is quieter and more spread out, and some properties have softer ground and longer carries than anywhere else on it. For a boat this broad, that walk matters more than the boat’s length. A long pontoon won’t pivot through a side gate, and soft ground or low limbs can decide the route, so we budget extra hands and extra time into north-end plans from the first call instead of finding out on the day.

Still floating, or settled into the marsh? Every boat is different. Send us some photos and the location, and we’ll take a look and tell you what it takes.

Then there’s the causeway. Every pontoon we take off St. Simons crosses it, and on a summer weekend the drive alone can stretch a short job into an afternoon. Pontoon work is planned rather than squeezed in, so a little notice lets us study the photos and pick a day when the drive works for both of us.

Your pictures tell us whether it lifts and loads in one piece or comes apart where it sits. When the tubes and frame are sound and there’s room for the equipment, whole is simplest. When the deck is mush or the access is tight, the rail fence, seating and decking come off first and the tubes and frame follow as a load of their own.

No trailer, or one whose tires quit years ago, is fine. Plenty of pontoons can be lifted without one.

Fuel in the tank, an old battery, a question about paperwork: mention it with your photos and we’ll sort it out with you when we quote.

Send us a few photos and tell us what you need removed. We’ll take it from there.

We figure out the right destination for each part of the boat once it’s apart, based on what it’s made of and the shape it’s in, and the load comes straight off the island to Brunswick.

Aluminum tubes and frames that separate cleanly usually go to scrap, often at SA Recycling in Brunswick.

Waterlogged plywood, cracked vinyl and old carpet are the part that goes to disposal.