28 ft Bertram Removal in Corpus Christi, TX

This 28 ft Bertram 28 sat with both engines dead and a cockpit sole gone soft underfoot, the kind of rot that spreads through plywood stringers until the deck flexes like a trampoline. No trailer, no easy tow. It had been left to soak through a season of Aransas County humidity, the fiberglass holding water instead of shedding it, until whoever owned it stopped coming around. Access was the problem. No trailer meant we couldn't just hook up and roll away, and the hull was heavy with trapped water in the bilge and stringers, which shifts a boat's balance in ways that make a normal lift dangerous. We ran a route through Rockport, brought in a crane rig built for dead weight, and drained what we could before lifting. Took most of a morning between rigging, draining, and getting it clear without dropping debris into the yard. No title in the drawer, handled per the Texas page rules. Once it was on the truck, there was no argument about saving it. The hull went straight to cutting, engines pulled for scrap metal, fiberglass shell routed to the processor. That's the end state for a boat that's been rotting long enough to lose its deck. Crews cover all of Aransas County: Rockport, Aransas Pass, Lamar, Fulton, Holiday Beach. We're usually running that stretch on a job somewhere, so a 28 ft Bertram in Corpus Christi often gets picked up the same week you call. A lot of our route work lines up with folks moving boats in and out of storage before or after hurricane season, so we're already close by with the right trailer and truck for a hull that size.