boaty scrapyards

[theforeman]

is there any such thing as, or comparable to, a yacht scrapyard in the uk ?
if anyone knows of one ( or more ) can you give me
location(s).
tia

 

[Poignard]

My garage.
But if you want a scrapyard that actually sells things you could try the Chandlery Barge at Bursledon.

 

[theforeman]

/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif - bit like mine then ( but not boaty unfortunately ).
is bursledon somewhere near the thames ?
i would be looking for a chart table.

 

[Tisme]

They call them Boat Jumbles!

Beaulieu (held in April) is the biggest but there are plenty of others. A search on Google should locate them.

 

[theforeman]

well - not exactly the same imho. i`ve been to a couple but did not see any chart tables for sale. what i had in mind was more like a breaker`s yard where you could wander round the boats and examine a number of chart tables and select the one best suited to your needs.

 

[Tisme]

I'm not aware of anything like that.....though some brokers yards do come very close. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I think you'll have to get your toolbox out and build yourself a new chart table.

 

[Talbot]

I used to visit the barge a lot in the past. But the great popularity of boat jumbles has achieved two things:

reduced the available selection at the Barge
increased their prices substantially for inferior crud.

I still go occasionally, but have been disappointed every time.

 

[Poignard]

Bursledon is on the River Hamble. The Chandlery Barge is on the west bank of the river between the M27 and the A27.
I haven`t been in there since 2004 and, like Talbot, I found their prices a bit "ambitious."

 

[mainmarine]

Try seaching on ebay:
http://motors.listings.ebay.co.uk/Other-...ListingItemList

 

[Wansworth]

There used to be a sort of scrapyard on the River Itchen,old lifeboats,chain etc.If I recall opposite southern tv near Northam Bridge.

 

[Blueboatman]

Squeekers (Belsize Boatyard)Gone for housing I believe..There was another along theVespasian Road boatyards,gone too.

 

[Wansworth]

The march of time......

 

[rudolph_hart]

Andy Seedhouse at Woodbrige has a shed full of 2nd-hand chandlery. He also has a yard full of used boats for sale ......

The One-stop Chandlery at Hatfield Peverel, which used to have a huge shed full of used bits, has closed. It has 'downsized' to Maldon, but has only new bits now.

 

[bobgosling]

Is that Woodbridge Suffolk ? Just NE of Ipswich ?

 

[squidge]

I think so , next to the railway station.

 

[the_wanderer]

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The One-stop Chandlery at Hatfield Peverel, which used to have a huge shed full of used bits, has closed. It has 'downsized' to Maldon, but has only new bits now.

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Thanks for that info. You have saved me a drop of petrol as I used to use them.
Shame really, they really did have a good stock of second hand stuff.

Regards.

Alan.

 

[changeman]

There is a boaties dream warehouse at Guernsey on the North side of St Peter Port which stocks all sorts of boatcrap and is the nearest thing I have found to a boat scrapyard.

 

[oakum]

There was also one down at falmouth - similar to barge at bursledon - at the liveaboard end of town.

 

[Strathglass]

Like yourself I have found the barge prices a bit over the top recently.

I got a boom from Zspars for less than he wanted for a 20 year old one..

 

[wavelet]

The Falmouth one was at Penryn, run by Alan, at the entrance to Islington Wharf Boatyard, by the church at the navigable head of the Penryn river but that was in 1999.
A good second hand chandlery is in Almerimar on the Costa del Sol, but don't expect much else there, it's a horrible coast, no, not the navigation, just bland, bare and touristic (guess I've been spoiled by Portugal, Canaries, west Africa).