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Try to rescue stranded sailboat close to Stinson Seashore traps second vessel

A vessel was stranded close to Stinson Seashore after trying to assist tow a sailboat caught since July, the Marin County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.

The rescue boat appeared to run aground over the weekend amid heavy surf whereas attempting to tow the Chandalar, a 33-foot-long, 10-ton sailboat, throughout a excessive tide, sheriff’s Sgt. Adam Schermerhorn stated. The boats are trapped on Upton Seashore, close to Stinson.

The Chandalar has been caught within the sand since July 31. Authorities gave the vessel’s captain till the tip of August to take away the boat.

On Aug. 29, U.S. District Court docket Decide James Donato granted a brief restraining order stopping authorities from eradicating the boat. The restraining order ends in a couple of days, Schermerhorn stated.

“Within the occasion the decide extends it additional, the proprietor can have extra time for removing,” Schermerhorn stated. “If the order just isn’t continued, then the county will take away the vessel.”

Logan Walker, who’s at present dwelling on the boat, was cited by the sheriff’s workplace in August for leaving rubbish in a park, erecting an unauthorized non permanent or everlasting construction in a park and for abandoning private property in a park for greater than 12 hours.

He’s set to look in federal courtroom in San Francisco on Thursday.

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