Sinking your own boat!?...illegal?

[lw395]

One little yard I know has an annual clearance where unpaid wrecks are stripped of anything that will shift on eBay or at Beaulieu, then the hull is smashed up with a jcb or forklift and shovelled into a skip.
There are plenty of boats around that would cost more to get sailable than they would be worth as going concerns. Some are fixed up because people enjoy doing it, the rest are left to fester.
The artificial reef idea is nice, but the paperwork is horrendous apparently. It is somewhat inconvenient if your wreck is trawled up by a fishing boat, or if they drag it out of position. Hence things like HMS Scylla are favoured, but this cost a small fortune to clean of oil, remove dangerous bits etc.
Possibly best to find a roundabout with no flower beds and offer to sponsor it?

 

[Resolution]

Putting an end to it?

Given the legal kerfuffle about "assisted killing " in this country I would have thought there was a reasonable business opportunity here. Place your soon-to-be dearly departed at the helm of your rubbish boat, set the sails and send them off out to the ocean (beyond 12 mile limit etc.) Maybe add some delayed pyrotechnics if the STBDD wants a viking funeral as well.






My wife says I am sick and I wont get rid of her that easily....

 

[JSYmartini]

George V certainly got away with having his own yacht scuttled (name Britannia? J Class??). So did the German navy on various occasions (Scapa Flow, River Plate). However, I fear that there is one law for kings and admirals and another for the poor b****y infantry.

Britannia's chief sailing rival was another J class "Westward", owned by Jersey's favourite son, TB Davis. After his death, no suitable new owner could be found so down she went too, in Hurd Deep in 1947

 

[mucklestone]

The fact is who is going to catch you? Arrange a trip somewhere with a friend and over deep water yours got into trouble and you had to abandon it... Who will ever prove otherwise? Just to be safe make sure you do it by smashing the depth transducer out or taking off an engine hose. That way it could look like an accident! An open seacock with no hose on it is a bit suspicious if it was ever discovered!!