Boat Disposal and Removal Services

A boat nobody uses does not sit still. The cover tears, the cockpit fills with rain, the transom softens where water found the plywood core, and the trailer tires go flat into the gravel. At some point the listing gets no calls, the marina bill keeps coming, and the hull has to leave the property whole.

AMI Junk Hauling takes the whole hull away for good. We do not strip parts off boats that are staying, and we do not cut a hull apart in your side yard to make it fit a pickup. Crews come with a winch, a trailer rated for the weight, and dollies for a rig whose wheels have not turned in years.

Send photos of the boat, the trailer under it, and the path out to the road, or call and describe it: (888) 371-8120. The estimate is free and comes back in writing.

Why people call about a boat

• Yard or marina storage fees on a hull that has not been in the water for years.
• An inherited boat on a trailer that has to go before the house closes.
• A soft transom or rotted stringers, where the repair estimate passed what the boat is worth.
• A hull that sat uncovered and filled with rainwater, leaves, and whatever nested in it.
• A trailer with flat tires, seized bearings, or no working lights, which makes moving it a job in itself.
• A code notice or an HOA letter with a date on it.

The hull that has not moved in years

Fiberglass does not rot, but everything doing structural work inside it can. Transom cores, stringers, and deck plywood are wood in most hulls built before the last decade, and once water reaches them the boat gets heavier and less rigid at the same time. A hull that took on rainwater all winter can weigh far more than its listed dry weight, and that weight is what decides the trailer and the rig, not the number on the registration.

The trailer under it is often the harder half. Bearings that have not been greased in a decade seize, tires crack through the sidewall while holding air, and the coupler rusts to the ball. Crews bring dollies and a winch for exactly that, and the boat and trailer usually leave together. What settles the estimate is the approach: gate width, overhead branches, and whether the ground between the hull and the road holds a loaded rig.

How it works

1. Send photos. The hull from both sides, the transom, the trailer and its tires, and the path from the boat to the road.
2. Get a number in writing. The figure accounts for length, hull material, whether the rig rolls, access, and salvage value. Same-day quote in most cases.
3. Sort the paperwork. Tell us what you have — title, registration, HIN plate, bill of sale, or nothing. Each of those has a path.
4. Pick a window. Clear the approach and unlock the gate. The crew brings the winch, dollies, and a trailer rated for the loaded weight.
5. The hull leaves, and you get the release. It goes to a dismantler or a licensed disposal facility, and you get a release of liability naming the vessel and the date.

What we take

Whole hulls, in the condition they are in:

• Runabouts, bowriders, and center consoles on trailers
• Cabin cruisers and express cruisers sitting on stands or blocks
• Pontoon boats, including ones with corroded or crushed tubes
• Sailboats with the mast down, keel boats on cradles
• Jon boats, aluminum fishing boats, and small skiffs
• Personal watercraft and their trailers
• Hulls with soft transoms, rotted stringers, or delaminated decks
• Fire-damaged and storm-damaged vessels
• Boat trailers on their own, with or without working axles

Fuel is drained and handled at the facility, and batteries come out rather than riding along. What we do not do is cut a sound hull apart on your property to avoid a proper haul.

What moves the number

Four things settle a boat haul, and photos answer most of them.

Length and loaded weight. An 18-foot runabout on a working trailer and a 34-foot cruiser on blocks are different rigs and different permits. What counts is loaded weight, which on a water-logged hull runs well above the dry figure on paper.

Whether the rig rolls. A trailer with air in the tires and free bearings pulls straight out. Seized bearings and flat tires mean dollies under the axles and a winch pull, and that is crew time.

Access and lift. A boat on a paved drive with a straight shot to the street is the easy end. A hull on stands behind a fence, under low branches, on grass that has gone soft, is the other. Anything sitting on blocks rather than a trailer needs a lift or a slide, which changes the equipment that shows up.

Salvage value. Outboards, inboard drives, electronics, aluminum, and stainless hardware all carry value that works against the cost of the haul. A hull that has already been picked over has less of it, which is why pulling the engine before calling usually costs the owner more than it saves.

Title, HIN, and the release of liability

Boat paperwork goes missing more often than car paperwork. Titles get lost between owners, registration lapses while the hull sits in a yard, and on older vessels the HIN plate is painted over or gone from the transom. None of that is a dead end — the route depends on the state and on what documentation still exists.

The release of liability matters more than the title. A vessel abandoned on a bank, sunk at a dock, or left on unposted land is traced back to the last registered owner, and a derelict vessel case is expensive to be on the wrong side of. AMI Junk Hauling issues a release of liability on every boat job, naming the vessel and the date it left, whether or not the title itself changes hands. Ask any hauler for that in writing before the winch goes on.

How to pick who hauls it

Most operators handle this properly, and from the driveway the good and the bad look identical: a rig arrives, the hull goes away, the yard is clear. The difference appears later, if the vessel turns up on a bank or behind a rented lot instead of at a dismantler, because the paper trail leads back to whoever was last registered on it.

Ask two things before booking. Where is the hull going — a real answer names a dismantler or a facility type. And will the release of liability come in writing. A company that dodges either question is describing its own operation, and the exposure from that answer stays with the owner.

Boat removal near me: where crews run

Coverage is statewide, not just coastal counties, which matters for hulls sitting at inland lakes and in storage yards well away from the water. Pick a state for how the work runs there — access, terrain, what the local dismantlers take — and the towns covered in it.

Northeast

Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New York · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · Vermont

Midwest

Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Michigan · Minnesota · Missouri · Nebraska · North Dakota · Ohio · South Dakota · Wisconsin

South Atlantic

Delaware · District of Columbia · Florida · Georgia · Maryland · North Carolina · South Carolina · Virginia · West Virginia

South Central

Alabama · Arkansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Mississippi · Oklahoma · Tennessee · Texas

West

Arizona · California · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · Nevada · New Mexico · Oregon · Utah · Washington · Wyoming

Other things we haul

• Junk Removal
• RV Removal
• Shed Demolition
• Hot Tub Removal
• Deck Demolition
• Pool Removal

Get a number on your boat

Send photos of the hull, the trailer, and the way out to the road, or call and describe it: (888) 371-8120. You get an upfront figure in writing and a straight answer on the paperwork before anything is scheduled. The form on this page works too.