Boat Removal in Miami, FL — Vessels 28ft and Over

Miami removal facts

Working-waterfront access.

This is a commercial marine area with real yard infrastructure, which usually works in your favour: lift capacity is close by, hardstand space exists, and the tow distance is short. The trade-off is that vessels here tend to be larger, older and heavier than the residential average, and commercial hulls carry more fuel, more oil and more hazardous material to abate before anything can be cut.

Removing a large vessel in Miami-Dade County

Miami sits within the Miami-Dade County removal area, working Biscayne Bay, the Miami River, Dumfoundling Bay and the Intracoastal. Miami-Dade is a deep-water county with a working commercial river running through the middle of it, and the vessel mix reflects that: large motoryachts on Biscayne Bay, commercial and semi-commercial hulls up the Miami River, and a persistent population of long-term anchored boats in the bay that turn derelict at a steady rate. Access is generally good, and the concentration of yards with real lift capacity is the best in Florida - which helps, because the average vessel size here is larger than anywhere else on this list.

The local constraint. The constraint in Miami-Dade is rarely lift capacity and almost always road access and staging space. Getting a wide-beam vessel out of a Miami Beach or Sunny Isles property means working around a narrow street grid, and over-dimensional movements through the urban core are daylight-restricted.

Getting a boat out of Miami by water

The closest navigable Atlantic access to Miami is Government Cut, approximately 3.8 miles away. On any in-water job that distance is the first thing we calculate, because it determines whether the vessel can be towed to a yard with adequate lift capacity on a single tide, whether a pump crew has to ride the tow, and whether fixed bridge clearance rules out a tall rig entirely.

At roughly 3.8 miles from Government Cut, an in-water tow to a lift is normally the straightforward route here, and short transits mean a single tide is usually enough even on a hull that needs pumps running the whole way. This is close-in work for our Fort Lauderdale crews.

Boat removal rates in Miami

Indicative rates. Every removal is quoted individually after an on-site assessment - the figures below are a guide, not a fixed price.

What moves your number in Miami specifically is whether the vessel floats, what she displaces rather than what she measures, whether equipment can physically reach her given the working-waterfront access conditions described above, and the 3.8-mile run to Government Cut if she moves by water — towing is billed hourly, so that distance goes straight onto the estimate. See the full rate card for worked examples, what the per-foot rate covers, and what is billed separately.

Complex situations in Miami: for a sunken, grounded or storm-damaged vessel we can have a crew on site to assess the same day you ask for a price. There is no charge for the visit, and on jobs like these a photograph is not enough to quote from honestly.

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