Stopped on the road to recycling - the wrecked yacht that needed a lift
November 25, 2025 · 9 min · 9K views · Truro, Cornwall
What this video covers
A sunken Hurley 22 named Breezy, recovered from a mooring at Port Navas, is hauled by road along the A39 to Truro Recycling for disposal.3:14 The boat had sunk on its mooring weeks earlier; mooring officers raised it and positioned it alongside a quay within reach of a winch cable to drag it onto a trailer.0:32 The original tow vehicle, Cecil — a VW T2 van used by Clean Ocean Sailing — was stopped by DVLA for a faulty trailer light board and struggled with speed on hills, so Pete from Halcyon Yachts substituted a VW T5.1:49 At the weighbridge, Breezy came in at two tonnes, double the internet estimate.4:04 Truro Recycling, described as the only licensed boat breaker west of Plymouth, confirmed that GRP fiberglass currently goes to landfill in the UK because no domestic sustainable recycling pathway exists, though European facilities can process it into fiberglass panels.4:28 The disposal fee alone was just over £1,000, funded by a Port Navas crowdfunding campaign.8:19 The crew note that keeping old fiberglass boats sailing is a far lower-carbon outcome than road transport followed by landfill disposal.
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