I get calls from people who bought a house on the water and inherited the sailboat with it. The mast came down one fall, never went back up, and now it's just taking up slip space while the fees stack. I hear from estate executors dealing with a boat the deceased sailed once in 1987. And I hear from sailors whose rigs failed survey, whose restorations stalled at the deck core, whose listings expired after months of lowball offers and silence. A sailboat isn't like a powerboat sitting on blocks in a driveway. The rigging, the mast, the standing and running lines, the boom, the boom vang, the turnbuckles, the winches, the lines, the blocks, the sails in bags or stuffed in lockers. It's all part of the problem.
Hansons Boat Removal handles sailboat disposal start to finish in Montclair and the surrounding Essex County area, including Glen Ridge and Upper Montclair, on the same trip. We rig it down, secure the mast, load it, tow it out, and handle the paperwork. Missing title, no documentation, boat in a marina or dry storage or sitting on blocks behind the garage. Doesn't matter. We move it, and it's gone. Details on how the full job works live on the sailboat disposal page.
