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boat removal in the Bay Area
hi there,
I got an old baot in my slip and need to trash it. it is a coronado 27 build in 1972 and has not been sailed for a long time. engine and outboard engine are probably not working anymore. cannot donate since it is not worth anything. didnt find a place that takes it yet (in the Bay Area) Can anyone point me to a junk yard or who or whatever might take this boat. thanks, larsinla |
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larsinla wrote in message oups.com... hi there, I got an old baot in my slip and need to trash it. it is a coronado 27 build in 1972 and has not been sailed for a long time. engine and outboard engine are probably not working anymore. cannot donate since it is not worth anything. didnt find a place that takes it yet (in the Bay Area) Can anyone point me to a junk yard or who or whatever might take this boat. thanks, larsinla I had this recurring nightmare with an old boat that I had once. The landfill wouldn't take it and I couldn't donate it. What to do with it when it just wasn't worth keeping? At the suggestion of a friend, I stuck a "For Sale" sign on it with an asking price of 1000 bucks. Within 2 days I "accepted" an offer of $500 and the happy new owner towed it away. Eisboch |
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Which Bay Area?
"larsinla" wrote in message oups.com... hi there, I got an old baot in my slip and need to trash it. it is a coronado 27 build in 1972 and has not been sailed for a long time. engine and outboard engine are probably not working anymore. cannot donate since it is not worth anything. didnt find a place that takes it yet (in the Bay Area) Can anyone point me to a junk yard or who or whatever might take this boat. thanks, larsinla |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:17:45 GMT, "Eisboch"
wrote: larsinla wrote in message roups.com... hi there, I got an old baot in my slip and need to trash it. it is a coronado 27 build in 1972 and has not been sailed for a long time. engine and outboard engine are probably not working anymore. cannot donate since it is not worth anything. didnt find a place that takes it yet (in the Bay Area) Can anyone point me to a junk yard or who or whatever might take this boat. thanks, larsinla I had this recurring nightmare with an old boat that I had once. The landfill wouldn't take it and I couldn't donate it. What to do with it when it just wasn't worth keeping? At the suggestion of a friend, I stuck a "For Sale" sign on it with an asking price of 1000 bucks. Within 2 days I "accepted" an offer of $500 and the happy new owner towed it away. My friend at the boat shop once a year cleans out his yard of boats that go over the mechanics lien time limit or boats just left in the yard by people who don't' want them anymore. He sells the ones worth money, but most of them are junk. Anyway - and I've actually been there when this happens - he puts a couple out by the street with FREE signs on them. They are gone within an hour. It's like freakin magic. :) Later, Tom |
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Around 12/21/2004 3:08 PM, larsinla wrote:
hi there, I got an old baot in my slip and need to trash it. it is a coronado 27 build in 1972 and has not been sailed for a long time. engine and outboard engine are probably not working anymore. cannot donate since it is not worth anything. didnt find a place that takes it yet (in the Bay Area) Can anyone point me to a junk yard or who or whatever might take this boat. Post an ad in an appropriate forum at http://www.craigslist.org/ If the price is low enough (read: free) it'll be gone within a day. -- ~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat" "There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." -Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows |
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:57:29 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote: My friend at the boat shop once a year cleans out his yard of boats that go over the mechanics lien time limit or boats just left in the yard by people who don't' want them anymore. He sells the ones worth money, but most of them are junk. Anyway - and I've actually been there when this happens - he puts a couple out by the street with FREE signs on them. They are gone within an hour. It's like freakin magic. :) The alley behind my business is like a freeway for people living on the fringe of society. I didn't realize this until I bought a commercial property, with an alley, in my area. For years I rented commercial space in the downtown area and had to deal with all of it's idiocentriciticies, before I bought my own piece of commercial heaven in the city. Over the last couple of years I have learned, if there's something I want to keep, don't leave it outside, for even a few hours. If there's something I want to get rid of, which is very often, leave it outside for a night, and like magic, it will be gone. I had an old fuel oil drum from an old heating system, that was left as a gift from the previous owner of the property. I pumped the 30 or so gallons of heating oil into jerry cans and took them to to the county recycling center. They said the would take the old 55 gallon drum, but after I loaded it and hauled it down to the dump, they declined, as it was an old fuel oil drum. I was instructed to drill holes into the drum and then they would accept it, but they didn't. I left it out back one night, and like majic, it was gone the next morning. I could probably make a lot of money getting rid of spent fuel rods from neuclear plants, but I just don't have it in me. bb |
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:17:45 GMT, "Eisboch" wrote: larsinla wrote in message roups.com... hi there, I got an old baot in my slip and need to trash it. it is a coronado 27 build in 1972 and has not been sailed for a long time. engine and outboard engine are probably not working anymore. cannot donate since it is not worth anything. didnt find a place that takes it yet (in the Bay Area) Can anyone point me to a junk yard or who or whatever might take this boat. thanks, larsinla I had this recurring nightmare with an old boat that I had once. The landfill wouldn't take it and I couldn't donate it. What to do with it when it just wasn't worth keeping? At the suggestion of a friend, I stuck a "For Sale" sign on it with an asking price of 1000 bucks. Within 2 days I "accepted" an offer of $500 and the happy new owner towed it away. My friend at the boat shop once a year cleans out his yard of boats that go over the mechanics lien time limit or boats just left in the yard by people who don't' want them anymore. He sells the ones worth money, but most of them are junk. Anyway - and I've actually been there when this happens - he puts a couple out by the street with FREE signs on them. They are gone within an hour. It's like freakin magic. :) Later, Tom At Pillar Point Harbor in Calif, the put the abandoned and dead beat slip paying boats in "The Box". They tow them up on the beach and let the salvagers go at them. |
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Calif Bill wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:17:45 GMT, "Eisboch" wrote: larsinla wrote in message roups.com... hi there, I got an old baot in my slip and need to trash it. it is a coronado 27 build in 1972 and has not been sailed for a long time. engine and outboard engine are probably not working anymore. cannot donate since it is not worth anything. didnt find a place that takes it yet (in the Bay Area) Can anyone point me to a a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=11&k=junk%20yard" onmouseover="window.status='junk yard'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;"junk yard/a or who or whatever might take this boat. thanks, larsinla I had this recurring nightmare with an old boat that I had once. The landfill wouldn't take it and I couldn't donate it. What to do with it when it just wasn't worth keeping? At the suggestion of a friend, I stuck a "For Sale" sign on it with an asking price of 1000 bucks. Within 2 days I "accepted" an offer of $500 and the happy new owner towed it away. My friend at the boat shop once a year cleans out his yard of boats that go over the mechanics lien time limit or boats just left in the yard by people who don't' want them anymore. He sells the ones worth money, but most of them are junk. Anyway - and I've actually been there when this happens - he puts a couple out by the street with FREE signs on them. They are gone within an hour. It's like freakin magic. :) Later, Tom At Pillar Point Harbor in Calif, the put the abandoned and dead beat slip paying boats in "The Box". They tow them up on the beach and let the salvagers go at them. Oh, bull****. Anybody with any sense would know that's not true. There are too many environmental regulations in place that would prevent a company from doing such, let alone the fact that the boats don't belong to them. That would be akin to me taking your boat out of your yard and doing the same thing. |
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"basskisser" wrote in message oups.com... Calif Bill wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:17:45 GMT, "Eisboch" wrote: larsinla wrote in message roups.com... hi there, I got an old baot in my slip and need to trash it. it is a coronado 27 build in 1972 and has not been sailed for a long time. engine and outboard engine are probably not working anymore. cannot donate since it is not worth anything. didnt find a place that takes it yet (in the Bay Area) Can anyone point me to a a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=11&k=junk%20yard" onmouseover="window.status='junk yard'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;"junk yard/a or who or whatever might take this boat. thanks, larsinla I had this recurring nightmare with an old boat that I had once. The landfill wouldn't take it and I couldn't donate it. What to do with it when it just wasn't worth keeping? At the suggestion of a friend, I stuck a "For Sale" sign on it with an asking price of 1000 bucks. Within 2 days I "accepted" an offer of $500 and the happy new owner towed it away. My friend at the boat shop once a year cleans out his yard of boats that go over the mechanics lien time limit or boats just left in the yard by people who don't' want them anymore. He sells the ones worth money, but most of them are junk. Anyway - and I've actually been there when this happens - he puts a couple out by the street with FREE signs on them. They are gone within an hour. It's like freakin magic. :) Later, Tom At Pillar Point Harbor in Calif, the put the abandoned and dead beat slip paying boats in "The Box". They tow them up on the beach and let the salvagers go at them. Oh, bull****. Anybody with any sense would know that's not true. There are too many environmental regulations in place that would prevent a company from doing such, let alone the fact that the boats don't belong to them. That would be akin to me taking your boat out of your yard and doing the same thing. Actually they can tow your car out of your yard in some states if the registration is not current. Stops urban blight. And the harbor district has a perfectly legal right to do this. You do not pay your slip rental, just like a mechanics lien, they own the boat. And after the salvagers get through, there is very little to tow off to the landfill. Works well. |
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