What ever happens to old boats & hulls?

[FP1201]

Ever wonder what happens to old AB hulls & complete boats?
What do you do with an old fiberglass boat that's no longer seaworthy?

I suppose you could fill an old hull with potting soil and use it to plant tomatoes.

 

[Olf Art]

FP, you might be able to make one into a fish pond. Just sink it in the yard somewhere and fill it with water.
Or how bout a hot tub ? Use the transom drain holes to circulate the water ? :lol:

 

[capnmike]

i remember going to bill bracks house when i was a kid and there must have been fifty old airboat hulls in the yard and about 7 or 8 complete/almost complete hulls and hundreds and hundreds of deer horns in the rafters of the barn

 

[deepsea diver]

The Boy's down in IMMOKALEE just put them close to the road and wait for Who leoooo to drag them off behind his ice cream bike.

 

[grant]

I got 2 in my yard right now......had a dozen people try and buy them....I figure they are worth a couple of hundred $$ in scrap alum, if I ever get around to stripping the polymer and bolts off them!
Probably gonna use them for barges to ferry lumber to a camp in the glades.

 

[K-mac]

with the price of aluminum being what it is, fixing an old alum hull
seems like the only way a poor boy could swing it these days.
if you want an alum hull.

 

[Anonymous]

If glass and destroyed skill saw and land fill.

 

[Bigfun]

This is a big subject with recyclers, I read somewhere that there is a co. in France that is grinding up FG hulls and recycling them into fillers for use in construction of other FG parts like stringers.

 

[goldhunter_2]

There used to be a place down in miami years ago that would grond up the fiberglass hulls form large sailboats and power yachts I forget what they used it for and there name .

 

[MikeP]

They can use it in concrete maybe? I know they use glass instead of rebar and steel for some applications.