Hauling a ski boat out of a Bozeman storage lot

An 18 ft Checkmate Predictor ski boat had been parked in a Gallatin County yard for three seasons. The go-fast paint had faded to a chalky gray, and the outboard had seized solid from sitting. The single-axle trailer underneath it was rusted through in spots, tires flat and rims oxidized to white. The owner had bought the boat new, used it hard for a few years, then life changed. Work got busier. The kids grew up. He kept meaning to sell it, but the asking price never felt right, and nobody bit anyway. One morning he called us and said he was done looking at it. We pulled into the yard from the Belgrade side and saw right away the trailer wasn't going anywhere on its own. The axle was locked. We lifted the hull with airbags, replaced the rusted axle with a tow dolly, and winched the Checkmate onto the flatbed in under an hour. The boat went to the recycler in Gallatin County for hulling and material separation. He got a document in the mail a week later that said it was processed. Crews cover all of Gallatin County: Belgrade, Four Corners, Big Sky, Manhattan, King Arthur Park, Three Forks. We handle same-week pickups across the valley, and we know the seasonal rhythm out here. Boats move in and out of storage facilities every spring and fall, and we're set up to grab yours whenever you're ready, whether it's sitting at a property on the edge of town or parked at a marina south of Bozeman.