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Conference vicki::boats

Title:Powerboats
Notice:Introductions 2 /Classifieds 3 / '97 Ski Season 1267
Moderator:KWLITY::SUTER
Created:Thu May 12 1988
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1275
Total number of notes:18109

1182.0. "Wooden boat disposal?" by --UnknownUser-- () Mon Aug 08 1994 16:32

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1182.1FirewoodSALEM::GILMANFri Aug 12 1994 08:325
    Whats this about wooden boat disposal?  There is no base note?
    
    Easy, firewood.
    
    Jeff
1182.2Boat must be goneTRIGG::VOGELSteve Vogel - Workgroup/Messaging Sales SpecFri Aug 12 1994 10:425
    It was there the other day ... I guess the boat is gone so the note was
    removed?
    
    /Steve
    
1182.3How To Dispose of a boat?USDEV::CLEMENTSmells like NirvanaTue Oct 10 1995 15:087
    I was checking out this boat that someone is selling that is good for
    nothing.  Made me wonder.  How does one go about disposing of a used
    boat.  This one is 14' fiberglass construction.  Also, what about its
    good for nothing outboard that was on there also?  How/where to dispose
    of that...
    
    Just curious...  Mark
1182.4XCUSME::TOMASI hate stiff waterTue Oct 10 1995 15:404
Every see the larger "litter" on the bottom of some lakes?


1182.5And for the disbelievers, I'll take you on a tour of theMerrimackKAHALA::SUTERand now for something you'll really like!Tue Oct 10 1995 15:4817
>            <<< Note 1182.4 by XCUSME::TOMAS "I hate stiff water" >>>
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>Every see the larger "litter" on the bottom of some lakes?
>

	I don't see a smiley :-), but I assume this statement
was made in jest. Any suggestion of getting rid of something
by sinking it really rubs me the wrong way. Hell, I'm appalled
when I see someone tossing stuff from a car window and think
doesn't that person know it's 1995!

	I'm sure someone will take the boat & motor. Just use
that good advertising word... FREE...

ps. I believe that FREE was what took care of the base note's boat...

1182.6I'm suprisedPENUTS::DSULLIVANTue Oct 10 1995 16:2823
 You Merrimack river guys ski on the best rubbish pale around. It's easy
 to get rid of the boat. Heck who'd know the difference between the boat
 and the water. Leave a boat in certain sections too long and it will simply
 erode away.


 1) Clean it out and send it adrift at the Lowell ramp. It will fall over the 
    Dam crash into a thousand pieces and the fish will have food for weeks.

 2) If (1) doesn;t ecologically please you then, file off all numbers and
    take it to the Lowell ramp. Unhook it in the parking lot and drive 
    away. I'm sure in under 5 hours the folks that frequent that area
    will have the tub running and will be thanking you for their new SS
    minnow// even if they have to row it...

 3) Park it somewhere and spray paint FREE TAKE ME! on the side.

  
 Always happy to help a fellow boater,

 ('^') - Dave
    
1182.7Or maybe ...TMAWKO::BELLAMYShovelheads forever!Tue Oct 10 1995 16:434
    
    .... dig a hole in the yard and set the hulk down in it. Put some
    rocks around the edge and get some Goldfish. Maybe even a little
    fountain. 
1182.8yeah,PENUTS::DSULLIVANWed Oct 11 1995 14:1714
 re -1

 Ya know, while I was visiting a friend in cow-hampshire the other week...

 I was on his bck porch and noticed in a neighbors yard a vintage Ski-doo.

 Funny, it had a few rocks around and boxes with flowers on the seats. It 
 was the first Ski-doo planter I had seen. 

 So... you could be onto something... add flowers to the rocks and you'll 
 have a neet planter.

 - Dave (^'^)
1182.9MCS873::KALINOWSKIWed Oct 11 1995 16:2917
    I saw a 40' chris craft taken down in two days with a chain saw,
    sledgehammer, sawz-all, front end loader and a dumptruck. This was in
    Salem Ma  a couple of weeks ago (ss minnow bites the big one).
    
    Check around, makes great barnfire fuel at the next high school
    game, and the suckers would probably cut it up and cart it off for you.
    Not so sure I'd burn hull planks with 30 years of bottom paint inside
    my house....
    
    Take the block to car junk yard for reuse.
    
    If the hull is fibreglas, I hear they have some kind of a giant
    "boat-o-matic" that grinds it up for reuse. Check with a salage
    yard to see if this is  true, and where they will do this.
    
    Don't just dump it. There are enough eyesores out there from guys who
    are actually "proud owners" of some of these... ;>)  
1182.10Browning-Ferris IndustriesKAHALA::SUTERand now for something you&#039;ll really like!Thu Oct 12 1995 14:456
	I just talked to BFI and they would be happy to come pick up
a derelict fiberglass hull. The downside is that they also want about
200 bucks along with it.

Rick
1182.11Donate it...HDECAD::PRUYNFri Oct 20 1995 13:308
    My parents donated their boat to a local hospital for a charity
    auction. The only part of any value was the trailer it sat on. You
    had to take the boat to get the trailer. I wish I could tell you
    how much it sold for, but I don't know. The benefit to my parents was
    that it was removed from the property at no cost and they can claim
    some level of charitable contribution. They're happy with the deal.
    
    Kris