Captain Tom's — Michigan

Professional boat removal and disposal across Michigan

Abandoned sailboat, sunken vessel, or old yacht taking up space? Get your online price today before the season turns.

Boat removal in Michigan, done right

We handle professional boat removal and disposal across Michigan, and we know the waterways here aren't forgiving. From Lake Michigan marinas to inland lake waterfront locations, getting a vessel out safely takes more than a truck and a trailer. Our boat removal service covers all types, whether you've got an old sailboat sitting in a slip, a sunken boat at the bottom of a channel, or an abandoned yacht taking up space on a property. We work with residential and commercial clients throughout Michigan and surrounding areas, and we're set up to safely remove and dispose of any size vessel responsibly.

We're a local boat removal company with an experienced team ready to handle removal and disposal on water or land. If you need a boat removed, we'll take care of it the safe and responsible way.

Every type of boat removal we handle

We handle every type of boat removal in Michigan, from sunken wrecks to grounded sailboats. Here's what that actually looks like on the water.

  • Sunken boat removal — Foundering or sunken boat removal is some of the most involved work we do. Submerged vessels don't just float to the surface on their own. We work carefully around marinas and waterfront sites to recover, dismantle, and dispose of them in a safe and responsible way.
  • Sailboat removal — Onshore or grounded sailboat boat removal takes more planning than most people expect. Our crews dismantle masts and rigging before moving anything. Grounded sailboat boat removal from a dry-docked vessel or beached position requires rigging work upfront, and we handle disposal with eco-conscious disposal practices throughout.
  • Boat disposal services — Owners often discover that old boat disposal is anything but simple. Old junk boats can't just go to a landfill. We get them crushed or dismantled depending on condition, recycling parts wherever we can and making sure the whole process stays clean and legal.
  • Boat salvage — Salvage and disposal of a damaged or abandoned vessel means towing it out of spots most boat removal companies won't touch. We move vessels from tight marina slips, shallow coves, and waterfront properties, handling all dismantling and disposal once it's on dry ground.

Why Michigan owners trust our boat removal company

Our boat removal company knows Michigan waterways the way locals do. From the marinas along Lake St. Clair to the waterfront docks in Traverse City, we handle safe and responsible vessel removal with eco-conscious disposal built into every job. We serve Grosse Pointe, Muskegon, and Holland, and our team brings real marine salvage capability to every call.

  • Our Michigan boat removal specializes in every vessel type, from simple jobs to the most demanding and complex operations, keeping safety first.
  • Our boat removers safeguard local lakes and rivers by choosing recycling and proper handling whenever we remove and dispose of an old boat, motorboat, pontoon, sailboat, yacht, junk boat, or abandoned vessels.
  • Contact us today for boat removal services across Michigan. Whether you have an abandoned boat, a boat without a title, or urgent boat service needs, we're ready to handle your boat removal needs.

Our Services in Michigan

We provide the following services across Michigan:

Boat Removal

in Michigan

Sunken Boat Removal

in Michigan

Sailboat Removal

in Michigan

Boat Disposal

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Boat Salvage

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City Pages in Michigan

Browse the city-specific removal pages that are already available in Michigan.

Boat Removal

Boat Removal in Detroit, MI

Sunken Boat Removal

Sunken Boat Removal in Detroit, MI

Sailboat Removal

Sailboat Removal in Detroit, MI

Boat Disposal

Boat Disposal in Detroit, MI

Boat Salvage

Boat Salvage in Detroit, MI

Service Areas by County in Michigan

Cities grouped by county for quick reference.

Alcona County

Alcona Caledonia Curtis Greenbush Gustin Harrisville Hawes Haynes Hubbard Lake Lincoln Lost Lake Woods Mikado Millen Mitchell

Alger County

Au Train Burt Chatham Grand Island Grand Marais Limestone Mathias Munising Onota Rock River

Allegan County

Allegan Casco Cheshire Clyde Dorr Douglas Fennville Fillmore Ganges Gun Plain Heath Holland Hopkins Laketown Lee Leighton Manlius Martin Monterey Otsego Overisel Plainwell Salem Saugatuck South Haven Trowbridge Valley Watson Wayland

Alpena County

Alpena Green Hillman Long Rapids Maple Ridge Ossineke Sanborn Wellington Wilson

Antrim County

Alba Alden Banks Bellaire Central Lake Chestonia Custer Eastport Echo Elk Rapids Ellsworth Forest Home Helena Jordan Kearney Lakes of the North Mancelona Milton Star Torch Lake Warner

Arenac County

Adams Arenac Au Gres Clayton Deep River Mason Moffatt Omer Sims Standish Sterling Turner Twining Whitney

Baraga County

Arvon Baraga Covington L'Anse Pelkie Skanee Spurr Three Lakes Zeba

Barry County

Assyria Baltimore Barry Carlton Castleton Delton Dowling Freeport Hastings Hickory Corners Hope Irving Johnstown Maple Grove Middleville Nashville Orangeville Prairieville Rutland Thornapple Woodland Yankee Springs

Bay County

Auburn Bangor Bay City Beaver Essexville Frankenlust Fraser Garfield Gibson Hampton Kawkawlin Merritt Midland Monitor Mount Forest Pinconning Portsmouth Williams

Benzie County

Almira Bendon Benzonia Beulah Blaine Colfax Crystal Downs Country Club Crystal Lake Crystal Mountain Elberta Frankfort Gilmore Hardwood Acres Homestead Honor Inland Joyfield Lake Lake Ann Nessen City Pilgrim Platte Thompsonville Weldon

Berrien County

Bainbridge Baroda Benton Benton Harbor Benton Heights Berrien Berrien Springs Bertrand Bridgman Buchanan Chikaming Coloma Eau Claire Fair Plain Galien Grand Beach Hagar Lake Michigan Beach Michiana Millburg New Buffalo New Troy Niles Oronoko Paw Paw Lake Pipestone Royalton Shoreham Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert Sodus St. Joseph Stevensville Three Oaks Watervliet Weesaw

Branch County

Algansee Batavia Bethel Bronson Butler California Coldwater Gilead Girard Kinderhook Matteson Noble Ovid Quincy Sherwood Union Union City

Calhoun County

Albion Athens Battle Creek Bedford Brownlee Park Burlington Clarence Clarendon Convis Eckford Emmett Fredonia Homer Leroy Level Park-Oak Park Marengo Marshall Newton Pennfield Sheridan Springfield Tekonsha

Cass County

Calvin Cassopolis Dowagiac Edwardsburg Howard Jefferson LaGrange Marcellus Newberg Ontwa Penn Pokagon Porter Silver Creek Vandalia Volinia Wayne

Charlevoix County

Advance Bay Bay Shore Boyne City Boyne Falls Boyne Valley Chandler Charlevoix East Jordan Evangeline Eveline Hayes Horton Bay Hudson Ironton Marion Melrose Norwood Peaine South Arm St. James Walloon Lake

Cheboygan County

Aloha Beaugrand Cheboygan Ellis Forest Grant Hebron Indian River Inverness Koehler Mackinaw Mackinaw City Mentor Mullett Munro Nunda Tower Tuscarora Walker Waverly Wilmot Wolverine

Chippewa County

Bay Mills Brimley Bruce Chippewa Dafter De Tour Village Detour Drummond Hulbert Kincheloe Kinross Pickford Raber Rudyard Sault Ste. Marie Soo Sugar Island Superior Trout Lake Whitefish

Clare County

Arthur Clare Farwell Franklin Freeman Frost Greenwood Hamilton Harrison Hatton Redding Summerfield Surrey Winterfield

Clinton County

Bath Bengal Bingham Dallas DeWitt Duplain Eagle East Lansing Elsie Essex Eureka Fowler Grand Ledge Hubbardston Lake Victoria Lansing Lebanon Maple Rapids Olive Riley St. Johns Victor Wacousta Watertown Westphalia

Crawford County

Beaver Creek Frederic Grayling Lovells Maple Forest South Branch

Delta County

Baldwin Bark River Bay de Noc Brampton Cornell Ensign Escanaba Fairbanks Ford River Garden Gladstone Masonville Nahma Rapid River Rock Wells

Dickinson County

Breen Breitung Felch Iron Mountain Kingsford Norway Quinnesec Sagola Waucedah West Branch

Eaton County

Bellevue Brookfield Carmel Charlotte Chester Delta Dimondale Eaton Eaton Rapids Hamlin Kalamo Mulliken Olivet Oneida Potterville Roxand Sunfield Vermontville Walton Windsor

Emmet County

Alanson Bay View Bear Creek Bliss Brutus Carp Lake Center Conway Cross Village Friendship Harbor Springs Levering Little Traverse Littlefield Maple River McKinley Oden Pellston Petoskey Pleasantview Ponshewaing Readmond Resort Springvale Wawatam West Traverse

Genesee County

Argentine Atlas Beecher Burton Clio Davison Fenton Flint Flushing Gaines Genesee Goodrich Grand Blanc Lake Fenton Lennon Linden Montrose Mount Morris Mundy Otisville Otter Lake Richfield Swartz Creek Thetford Vienna

Gladwin County

Beaverton Bentley Billings Bourret Buckeye Butman Clement Gladwin Grim Grout Hay Sage Secord Sherman Tobacco

Gogebic County

Bessemer Erwin Ironwood Marenisco Ramsay Wakefield Watersmeet

Grand Traverse County

Acme Blair Chums Corner East Bay Fife Lake Grawn Green Lake Interlochen Kingsley Long Lake Mayfield Paradise Peninsula Traverse City Whitewater

Gratiot County

Alma Arcada Ashley Bethany Breckenridge Elba Elm Hall Emerson Fulton Ithaca Lafayette New Haven Newark North Shade North Star Perrinton Pine River Riverdale Seville St. Louis Sumner Washington Wheeler

Hillsdale County

Allen Amboy Cambria Camden Fayette Hillsdale Jonesville Lake LeAnn Litchfield Montgomery Moscow North Adams Pittsford Ransom Reading Scipio Somerset Waldron Wheatland Woodbridge Wright

Houghton County

Atlantic Mine Calumet Chassell Copper City Dodgeville Dollar Bay Duncan Elm River Hancock Houghton Hubbell Hurontown Laird Lake Linden Laurium Osceola Painesdale Portage Schoolcraft South Range Stanton Trimountain

Huron County

Bad Axe Bay Port Bloomfield Caseville Dwight Elkton Fairhaven Gore Harbor Beach Hume Huron Kinde Meade Oliver Owendale Paris Pigeon Pointe Aux Barques Port Austin Port Hope Rubicon Sand Beach Sebewaing Sigel Ubly Verona Winsor

Ingham County

Alaiedon Aurelius Bunker Hill Dansville Delhi Edgemont Park Haslett Holt Ingham Leslie Locke Meridian Okemos Onondaga Stockbridge Vevay Webberville Wheatfield White Oak Williamston Williamstown

Ionia County

Belding Berlin Boston Campbell Clarksville Danby Easton Ionia Keene Lake Odessa Lyons Muir North Plains Odessa Orange Orleans Otisco Palo Pewamo Portland Ronald Saranac Sebewa

Iosco County

Alabaster Au Sable Burleigh East Tawas Oscoda Plainfield Reno Sand Lake Tawas Tawas City Whittemore Wilber

Iron County

Alpha Amasa Bates Caspian Crystal Falls Gaastra Hematite Iron River Mansfield Mastodon Stambaugh

Isabella County

Beal City Broomfield Coe Deerfield Denver Fremont Isabella Lake Isabella Loomis Mount Pleasant Nottawa Rolland Rosebush Shepherd Vernon Weidman Winn Wise

Jackson County

Blackman Brooklyn Cement City Columbia Concord Grass Lake Hanover Henrietta Jackson Leoni Liberty Michigan Center Napoleon Norvell Parma Pulaski Rives Sandstone Spring Arbor Springport Summit Tompkins Vandercook Lake Vineyard Lake Waterloo

Kalamazoo County

Alamo Augusta Brady Charleston Climax Comstock Comstock Northwest Cooper Eastwood Galesburg Kalamazoo Oshtemo Parchment Pavilion Prairie Ronde Richland Ross Scotts South Gull Lake Texas Vicksburg Wakeshma Westwood

Kalkaska County

Bear Lake Blue Lake Boardman Clearwater Coldsprings Excelsior Kalkaska Manistee Lake Rapid City South Boardman

Kent County

Ada Algoma Alpine Bowne Byron Byron Center Cannon Cannonsburg Cascade Casnovia Cedar Springs Comstock Park Courtland Cutlerville East Grand Rapids Forest Hills Grand Rapids Grandville Grattan Kent City Kentwood Lowell Nelson Northview Oakfield Rockford Solon Sparta Spencer Tyrone Vergennes Wyoming

Keweenaw County

Ahmeek Allouez Copper Harbor Eagle Harbor Eagle River Mohawk

Lake County

Chase Cherry Valley Dover Eden Elk Luther Newkirk Peacock Pinora Pleasant Plains Sauble Sweetwater Webber Yates

Lapeer County

Almont Arcadia Attica Barnes Lake Brown City Burnside Clifford Columbiaville Dryden Goodland Hadley Imlay Imlay City Lapeer Marathon Metamora Millers Lake North Branch Oregon Rich

Leelanau County

Cedar Centerville Cleveland Elmwood Empire Glen Arbor Greilickville Kasson Lake Leelanau Leelanau Leland Maple City Northport Omena Suttons Bay

Lenawee County

Addison Adrian Blissfield Britton Cambridge Clinton Fairfield Jasper Macon Madison Manitou Beach-Devils Lake Medina Morenci Ogden Onsted Palmyra Raisin Ridgeway Riga Rollin Rome Seneca Tecumseh Woodstock

Livingston County

Brighton Cohoctah Fowlerville Genoa Green Oak Hamburg Handy Hartland Howell Iosco Oceola Pinckney Putnam Unadilla Whitmore Lake

Luce County

Columbus Lakefield McMillan Newberry Pentland

Mackinac County

Bois Blanc Brevort Clark Hendricks Mackinac Island Marquette Moran Naubinway St. Ignace

Macomb County

Armada Center Line Chesterfield Eastpointe Lenox Macomb Memphis Mount Clemens New Baltimore Ray Richmond Romeo Roseville Shelby St. Clair Shores Sterling Heights Utica Village of Grosse Pointe Shores Warren

Manistee County

Brethren Brown Cleon Copemish Dickson Eastlake Filer Filer City Kaleva Manistee Marilla Norman Oak Hill Onekama Parkdale Pleasanton Springdale Stronach Wellston

Marquette County

Big Bay Champion Chocolay Ely Ewing Forsyth Gwinn Harvey Humboldt Ishpeming Michigamme Negaunee Palmer Powell Republic Sands Skandia Tilden Trowbridge Park Turin West Ishpeming

Mason County

Amber Branch Fountain Free Soil Logan Ludington Pere Marquette Riverton Scottville Victory

Mecosta County

Aetna Austin Barryton Big Rapids Canadian Lakes Fork Hinton Martiny Mecosta Millbrook Morley Morton Stanwood

Menominee County

Carney Cedarville Daggett Faithorn Gourley Harris Hermansville Holmes Ingallston Mellen Menominee Meyer Nadeau Powers Spalding Stephenson

Midland County

Coleman Edenville Geneva Greendale Ingersoll Jerome Larkin Mills Mount Haley Sanford

Missaukee County

Butterfield Caldwell Clam Union Enterprise Falmouth Jennings Lake City McBain Norwich Pioneer Reeder Riverside

Monroe County

Ash Carleton Detroit Beach Dundee Erie Estral Beach Exeter Flat Rock Frenchtown Ida La Salle Lambertville London Luna Pier Maybee Milan Monroe Petersburg Raisinville South Monroe South Rockwood Stony Point Temperance West Monroe Whiteford Woodland Beach

Montcalm County

Belvidere Bloomer Bushnell Carson City Cato Crystal Day Douglass Edmore Evergreen Fairplain Ferris Greenville Home Howard City Lakeview Maple Valley McBride Montcalm Pierson Pine Reynolds Sidney Trufant Winfield

Montmorency County

Albert Atlanta Avery Briley Canada Creek Ranch Lewiston Loud Montmorency Rust

Muskegon County

Cedar Creek Dalton Egelston Fruitland Fruitport Holton Laketon Lakewood Club Montague Moorland Muskegon Muskegon Heights North Muskegon Norton Shores Ravenna Roosevelt Park Sullivan Twin Lake White River Whitehall Wolf Lake

Newaygo County

Ashland Barton Big Prairie Bridgeton Brooks Croton Dayton Ensley Everett Goodwell Hesperia Lilley Merrill Newaygo Troy White Cloud Wilcox

Oakland County

Auburn Hills Berkley Beverly Hills Bingham Farms Birmingham Bloomfield Hills Brandon Clawson Commerce Farmington Farmington Hills Ferndale Groveland Hazel Park Highland Holly Huntington Woods Independence Keego Harbor Lake Angelus Lake Orion Lathrup Village Leonard Lyon Madison Heights Milford Northville Novi Oak Park Oakland Orchard Lake Village Orion Ortonville Oxford Pleasant Ridge Pontiac Rochester Rochester Hills Rose Royal Oak South Lyon Southfield Sylvan Lake Village of Clarkston Walled Lake Waterford West Bloomfield White Lake Wixom Wolverine Lake

Oceana County

Benona Claybanks Elbridge Ferry Golden Hart Leavitt Mears New Era Newfield Otto Pentwater Rothbury Walkerville Weare

Ogemaw County

Churchill Cumming Edwards Foster Goodar Hill Horton Klacking Lupton Ogemaw Prescott Rose City Skidway Lake

Ontonagon County

Bergland Bohemia Bruce Crossing Ewen Greenland Haight Interior Lake Gogebic Mass City Matchwood Ontonagon Rockland Stannard White Pine

Osceola County

Burdell Evart Hartwick Hersey Le Roy Middle Branch Orient Reed City Rose Lake Sylvan Tustin

Oscoda County

Big Creek Comins Elmer Mio

Otsego County

Bagley Charlton Corwith Elmira Gaylord Livingston Otsego Lake Vanderbilt

Ottawa County

Allendale Beechwood Blendon Coopersville Crockery Ferrysburg Georgetown Grand Haven Hudsonville Jamestown Jenison Lamont Nunica Park Polkton Port Sheldon Robinson Spring Lake Tallmadge Zeeland

Presque Isle County

Allis Bearinger Belknap Bismarck Case Krakow Metz Millersburg Moltke North Allis Ocqueoc Onaway Posen Presque Isle Presque Isle Harbor Pulawski Rogers Rogers City

Roscommon County

Backus Denton Gerrish Higgins Houghton Lake Markey Nester Prudenville Roscommon St. Helen

Saginaw County

Albee Birch Run Blumfield Brant Bridgeport Buena Vista Carrollton Chapin Chesaning Frankenmuth Freeland Hemlock James Jonesfield Kochville Oakley Reese Robin Glen-Indiantown Saginaw Shields Spaulding St. Charles Swan Creek Taymouth Thomas Tittabawassee Zilwaukee

Sanilac County

Applegate Argyle Bridgehampton Buel Carsonville Croswell Deckerville Delaware Flynn Forester Forestville Greenleaf Lamotte Lexington Marlette Melvin Minden Minden City Moore Peck Port Sanilac Sandusky Sanilac Snover Speaker Worth

Schoolcraft County

Doyle Germfask Hiawatha Inwood Manistique Mueller Seney Thompson

Shiawassee County

Antrim Bancroft Bennington Burns Corunna Durand Hazelton Henderson Laingsburg Middlebury Middletown Morrice New Lothrop Owosso Perry Rush Sciota Shaftsburg Shiawassee Venice Woodhull

St. Clair County

Algonac Brockway Burtchville Capac China Clay Cottrellville East China Fort Gratiot Ira Kenockee Kimball Lakeport Lynn Marine City Marysville Mussey Pearl Beach Port Huron Ruby St. Clair Wales Yale

St. Joseph County

Burr Oak Centreville Colon Constantine Fabius Fawn River Florence Flowerfield Leonidas Lockport Mendon Mottville Sturgis Three Rivers White Pigeon

Tuscola County

Akron Almer Arbela Caro Cass City Denmark Elkland Ellington Fairgrove Fostoria Gagetown Gilford Indianfields Juniata Kingston Koylton Mayville Millington Novesta Tuscola Unionville Vassar Wisner

Van Buren County

Almena Antwerp Arlington Bloomingdale Breedsville Covert Decatur Gobles Hartford Keeler Lawrence Lawton Mattawan Paw Paw Pine Grove

Washtenaw County

Ann Arbor Barton Hills Bridgewater Chelsea Dexter Freedom Lima Lodi Lyndon Manchester Northfield Pittsfield Saline Scio Sharon Webster York Ypsilanti

Wayne County

Allen Park Belleville Brownstown Canton Dearborn Dearborn Heights Detroit Ecorse Garden City Gibraltar Grosse Ile Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe Farms Grosse Pointe Park Grosse Pointe Woods Hamtramck Harper Woods Highland Park Inkster Lincoln Park Livonia Melvindale Plymouth Redford River Rouge Riverview Rockwood Romulus Southgate Sumpter Taylor Trenton Van Buren Westland Woodhaven Wyandotte

Wexford County

Antioch Boon Buckley Caberfae Cadillac Cherry Grove Clam Lake Haring Harrietta Manton Mesick Selma Slagle Springville Wedgewood Wexford

Frequently Asked Questions

An old boat that's sagging, cracked, or taking on water is a clear sign you need boat removal in Michigan. If your vessel was found sitting in a slip for years, or you can no longer tow it safely, we handle any size vessel — no exceptions.

We provide a variety of options to cover just about everything. Got a sailboat rotting at the dock or a dry-docked vessel taking up yard space? We handle abandoned vessels too. Our crew can tow, dismantle, or handle marine salvage depending on the situation. Boat disposal services are included.

Pricing depends on the type of vessel, where it's located, and how complex the removal turns out to be. We offer competitive prices and keep disposal in Michigan safe and responsible. Reach out and get your free estimate — our boat removal service is straightforward with no surprises.

We serve Detroit and Wayne County broadly for boat removal and disposal across MI. Our crew regularly works in areas like Grosse Pointe and Wyandotte. Call us today for boat removal scheduling and we'll get you taken care of fast.

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