We are about to launch the boat over the next week or two. Today I went
down to the marina to check out our boat slip (we've had the same one
for years), and there, tied to the dock in our slip is someone's
fiberglass dinghy "floating" mostly submerged just at the water's
surface. It actually looks like a nice little boat and it appears that
it is submerged only because it is filled with rain water. It also
appears to be abandoned. There is no motor on it and from its submerged
state I am unable to see whether it has any registration numbers. The
slip is in a municipal "township" marina, not a commercial boatyard, so
there really isn't a dockmaster or manager or owner to go to about this
- just bureaucrats and civil servants who won't have a clue. The
question is, if I refloat and remove this dinghy (which will take some
doing, and which I'll have to do anyway to get my boat in), is it then mine?

Larry Weiss
"...Ever After!"