Disposal of plastic boats

[paul turner]

Is anyone aware of any schemes to dispose of/recycle old plastic/grp boats? 

[TimHamp]

Cut them up (circular saw works well) into sections, take them to a council waste disposal site and drop into the energy recovery skip. Goes to nearest waste-to-power station. Check restrictions on trailers or commercial looking vehicles, some don't allow trailers and most will charge if they think you are a disposing as a business.

Tim

[Jerry G]

Remove all the metal fittings, keel band etc first.  Either treat these as scrap metal or hoard them!  Locally I offloaded much of my hoard at a boat auction.  When sawing up the fibreglass wear a face mask, particularly if using electric saw etc.  I hasten to add that I never scrapped any of my N12s, I always found some idiot to buy them!  I did scrap a very second hand tender I bought for £20 for my first post-N12 yacht.  I sawed that up by hand using an ordinary panel saw.