NEWS5,000 boats dismantled18/07/2022Save articleThe Association for Eco-Responsible Pleasure Craft – APER – has dismantled more than 5,000 since it was set up three years’ ago.SHOW FULLSCREENThere are 26 boat dismantling centres around France. Photo credit APERThe figures released by the French organisation, which is financed by boat builders, approved dismantling centres, administrations, local authorities and marinas, show 33% of the boats were motorboats, around 32% were small sport sailboats – both monohulls and multihulls and just over 29% were monohull sailboats.The figures include the dismantling of more than 1,100 boats that have been collected from sailing clubs since a partnership was signed with the French Sailing Federation in 2020, with APER undertaking to finance the transport and processing of old school boats.“The wrecks, dilapidated hulls and scattered sucker boats on our banks and shores, our gardens, our marinas, are not inevitable,” said Jean-Paul Chapeleau président de l’APER.“Get rid of, deconstruct, recycle and recovering pleasure boats at the end of their life, this is the mission that APER has set itself, under the impetus of the Federation of nautical industries.”The organisation works to help boatbuilders and owners from the concept and design including choice of materials through to production and then the end of life of the boat.The organisation covers boats from 2.5m to 24m that are registered in France. There are 26 dismantling centres across the country.TopicsAPERBoatbuildingIndustry News

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