Outdoor
Boat removal across the Golden Isles.
For the boat that hasn’t moved in years — beside the house, behind the shed, under what’s left of a tarp. We get it out of there.
The short version
Boat Removal at a glance.
- What it is
- Removal of old boats, personal watercraft, and their trailers from land — hauled out whole where that works, broken down on site where it doesn’t.
- What’s included
- Fiberglass bowriders and runabouts
- Aluminum fishing boats and jon boats
- Pontoon boats, decking and all
- Jet Skis and WaveRunners, often in pairs
- Small sailboats and catamarans
- Bass boats and cabin cruisers, evaluated individually
- The trailer too, when you want it gone
- How pricing works
- We price the actual boat, not a chart. How big it is, what condition it’s in, whether we can get equipment near it, and whether it leaves whole or in pieces. A waterlogged hull weighs nothing like the brochure said, so we want to see it — photos or in person — before we give you a number, and you get that number before anything moves.
Part of our Light Demolition service
Most of the boats we take have not moved in years. They sit beside a house, behind a shed, or out at the back of a property under whatever is left of a tarp that blew off five summers ago. By the time somebody calls us, the trailer tires have sunk into the dirt, the transom is soft, the deck gives a little when you step on it, and rainwater and leaves have been collecting in the cockpit long enough that the whole thing has become its own small ecosystem.
Coastal Georgia is hard on boats that sit. Sun, humidity, rain and salt air work on everything at once — upholstery rots, wiring corrodes, gelcoat chalks and crazes, plywood decks drink water, and hardware rusts into place. Add a few seasons of vegetation growing up through the trailer and you learn to look before you reach blindly into a compartment or under a cover. Wasps, ants, spiders and the occasional snake are part of dealing with something that has effectively become part of the backyard.
Weight is the other thing that surprises people. Owners tend to remember what the boat weighed when it was new. A hull whose foam, deck and wood structure have been soaking for years is a genuinely different job from the same model dry, and that difference shows up the moment we try to move it.
We are not a boat repair company, and we are not going to talk anybody into getting rid of a boat that can be economically fixed. Almost every call we get comes after the owner has already run the numbers — repair, storage, a trailer that needs work, an engine that needs more — and decided the boat is worth less than what it would take to save it. That decision is yours. Ours is the part that comes after it.
What we haul
Specifically, what we take for boat removal.
- Fiberglass bowriders and runabouts — the most common call, generally in the sixteen-to-twenty-two-foot range and mass-produced from the 1970s through the 1990s. Bayliner, Sea Ray, Larson, Glastron and the like. These are the tarp-blew-off boats.
- Aluminum fishing boats and jon boats — usually given up on because of hull leaks, corrosion, age, or a trailer that disappeared years ago. The aluminum hull can be separated for metal recycling when that is practical and appropriate.
- Pontoon boats — harder than they look. The deck plywood waterlogs, the marine vinyl deteriorates, the furniture rots, and the whole thing is heavier than anybody expects. The aluminum pontoons themselves may carry scrap value; the rotten decking and furniture still have to be dealt with.
- Jet Skis and WaveRunners — frequently a pair on a dual trailer. The usual story is an older two-stroke with engine trouble, electrical problems, and a sun-cooked hull and interior, where fixing both costs more than the pair is worth.
- Small sailboats — trailer-sailers and daysailers in the fourteen-to-twenty-five-foot range, older fiberglass Catalina and MacGregor types, and small catamarans like Hobie Cats. Rigging, sails and hardware deteriorate and the deck goes soft. Keels, masts, standing rigging and unusual trailer setups make these different from a powerboat.
- Bass boats — older performance fiberglass hulls with soft casting decks, a blown outboard, and gelcoat and interior past the point where restoration pencils out.
- Cabin cruisers and cuddy cabins in the twenty-four-to-thirty-two-foot range — the abandoned-project boats. An engine failed, water got into the cockpit or cabin, mold and interior rot followed, and the cost of storage or a slip stopped making sense. These are substantially larger projects and we look at each one individually.
How we work
How we actually handle it.
Some boats come out whole. We have equipment that lets us pick up and haul a boat in one piece, and when the hull is sound enough and we can get to it, that is the simplest version of the job.
Plenty of them do not come out whole. When the condition of the boat or the access to it rules that out, we break the hull down on site and haul it in pieces. Which way a job goes depends on the boat and on the property, and it is one of the first things we work out when we look at it.
Pontoons deserve their own warning. Waterlogged deck plywood adds real weight, and a pontoon boat that has sat through several wet seasons is not the load anybody pictures from the trailer photo. Personal watercraft usually arrive as a pair on a dual trailer, which is a different footprint from one machine. Sailboats bring keels, masts and rigging into the conversation, and their trailers are often built to a shape that does not behave like a powerboat trailer.
Cabin cruisers and anything unusually large, unusually deteriorated, or parked somewhere we genuinely cannot reach get evaluated on their own terms. That is not a brush-off — it is that a twenty-four-foot rotten boat sitting where we can get equipment to it can be a simpler job than a nineteen-foot boat trapped behind a house.
Pricing
How pricing works.
Boat pricing comes down to the same four things as any other job — how much there is, the labor to get it out of where it sits, the access, and what it costs to dispose of properly — plus two that are specific to boats: the condition of the hull, and whether it leaves whole or in pieces.
That is why we do not publish a chart for this. A boat that has been sitting wet for years does not weigh what its owner remembers, and a tight side yard can matter more than five feet of length. Send us photos or let us come look, and you will get one number, confirmed before anything moves.
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The honest exceptions
What we won’t take — for this item.
A short, honest list of edge cases we either won’t take or want to discuss before we show up. When in doubt, call us — we’ll walk through it before scheduling.
- Boats still in the water, on a lift, or sitting at a marina — this page is about boats that have already become land-based problems. If yours is still afloat or at a slip, contact us with the details and we’ll evaluate it.
- Unusually large boats, unusual keel configurations, boats we genuinely cannot reach, and boats deteriorated past the ordinary — none of these are automatic no’s, but each one gets evaluated individually rather than quoted off a description.
- Old fuel, leaking fluids, damaged batteries, or anything else that raises a hazardous-material question — these are evaluated before pickup and can change the job, so tell us what is still aboard when you call.
- Boats you don’t have the legal right to dispose of — if a boat is genuinely abandoned, ownerless, or caught in an ownership dispute, junk removal isn’t the answer to that question. Get the legal side settled first and then call us.
Questions
Frequently asked questions about boat removal.
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Common in
Where we haul boat removal most.
We haul boat removal regularly across the Golden Isles, especially in Brunswick, St. Simons Island, Darien, St. Marys, Kingsland, Fernandina Beach, and Hinesville.
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Last reviewed: September 1, 2026