Hauling a sailboat out of a Oak Park salvage job

A 26 ft MacGregor 26 sailboat sat in a yard in Oak Park with a mildewed cabin and a missing rudder. The hull was sound, but it hadn't been sailed in years, and the owner had finally decided the boat needed to go. We got the call on a Tuesday. The trailer was serviceable, which helped, but getting to the boat meant maneuvering through a tight residential lot with limited turnaround space. We brought a smaller wrecker first to assess the situation, then came back with a flatbed and a dolly to shift the weight and angle it for load-out. Once it was secured on the truck, we made the drive to our yard just outside the Chicago area where we dropped the mast, pulled the keel, and got the hull ready for the processor. Most of the work took a morning. Crews cover all of Cook County: Chicago, Proviso, Maine, Elgin, Hanover, Orland. We handle same-week pickups for most calls in the Oak Park area. A lot of boats come out of storage in spring or go into it come fall, and that's when we're busiest. We load your 26-footer, haul it out, and you're done. One call, one quote, one day it's gone.