Doesn't sound like it is actually in harms way. Maybe abandoned and you
could pursue it that way but if the owner shows up and wants it back you're
sol. I would not believe the situation would allow you to claim salvage
expenses.

"Larry Weiss" wrote in message
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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!"