Shipwrecks are getting in the food chain

[sail sail]

On the BBC today

Registration 'would help deal with abandoned boats in Cornwall'

 

[oldharry]

Actually registration would do nothing to find the owners of existing derelicts. If anything the publicity could be self defeating: got a boat for scrap? Pay someone £1000 to deal with it, or take it to the Fal where they do it for you for free...!

At least they recognise that compulsory registration would be a nightmare to get off the ground.

 

[Halcyon Yachts]

We have just put this video out:

Pete

 

[Keith 66]

Take a walk through most boat parks & you will see derelict end of life boats, in our club i estimate 30 - 40% are at that stage. The covid pandemic & following cost of living crisis has hit many people hard & Many owners are now old & unable to accept that their boat that cost them 12k twenty years back is now worth a fraction of that if anything.
If people default on subs & are chucked out the last thing on most peoples minds is getting rid of their old boat, out of sight out of mind kind of thing.
But it isnt on or feasible for members to have to become boat breakers & clear up other peoples crap!

 

[Wansworth]

 

[dunedin]

We have just put this video out:

Pete

Thanks for posting

Made a small donation - if others want to do similarly the Just Giving site is here Help raise £9000 to remove wrecked and abandoned boats from the Helford river and beyond

 

[Greenheart]

That's the same chap and project I donated to when the subject came up here last midsummer.

I've donated again - not a fortune, but if more folk did the same, nobody need pay a fortune.

I'm saddened at how little the donations have amounted to in the intervening nine months.

 

[CleanOceanSailing]

We have just put this video out:

Pete

Thanks for making this excellent film and helping to raise awareness.

 

[Sandy]

Good to see somebody is doing something about the problem of abandoned boats around our shores.

Don't forget the RYA page to report an abandoned boat. At least they will have an idea of the size of the problem.

Report an abandoned End-of-Life Boat - The Green Blue