On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:17:16 -0500, Ignoramus31152
wrote:

I am eyeing this boat to buy and scrap.

http://www.govliquidation.com/auctio...tionId=6295962

It is an assault landing craft, guesstimated at 100 tons of
displacement/weight.

[For a moment, I considered invading some country with my equipment and
personnel, we have a real "candidate master of shooting sports" on
staff, as well as a captain and driver, and some military vehicles,
but then I gave up on the idea.]

So, back to scrapping. My idea was to buy this assault ship, find a
marina to beach it, cut it up, extract the 12V-71 diesels for sale,
hydraulic winch, and scrap the rest. I do not foresee any technical
problems with cutting up this boat, assuming that it is safely on
land.

My question is how much of an issue are marine or environmental
regulations. I have never dealt with stuff like that and I do not want
to get in over my head. Is that a situation that is tightly
controlled, or kind of laid back like cutting up commercial trucks?

i

Go find one of those tv documentaries on sinking ships for artificial
reefs for absolute worst case. Those guys had an endless list of
hazmat -- cleaning tasks to prep for sinking. The one I remember was
the carrier Oriskany. Obviously a much bigger job, but gave a good
view of the types of remediation required. Gives an idea of why most
of these type jobs happen on the shores of Pakistan or India with very
little regulation.

Hopefully yours would be simpler if you could get it on dry land. By
the way, according to Wikipedia, the Oriskany was sold for scrap, then
repossessed for lack of progress.

Pete Keillor