"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:54:04 +0100, "Edgar"
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If you know somewhere to put it take it away, locate the owner and claim
salvage.


If you can get aboard and find the federal documentation number, it's
very easy to look up the owner in the USCG documentation database.


A boat which is in harbor, safely tied in its slip, removed from that slip
onto the hard, and then "salvaged" by a third or fourth party? I dunno,
but if I were the absentee owner and I had not been properly and legally
notified of losing my slip and some yahoo tried to claim "salvage rights"
on my boat, I would be more than a teensy bit peeved.
Well, normally I would agree with you but from what has been posted I gather
that the authorities there are determined to have a clean-up and, having
many apparently abandoned boats to deal with, seem to be taking the view
that after all this time owners who have not contacted them have effectively
abandoned their boats and they feel free to scrap them.