72' Hatteras "Time Out" beached off Palm Beach

Not a salvage if he's still involved and working toward removal. Not been abandoned there. Claim is that it's not been removed due to conditions and salvor is working on a plan. Now, the listed salvor refuses to comment.

In Florida you can't just take it. If you are filing a salvage claim it must go through an investigation. Only if the owner doesn't claim it during the course of that investigation can law enforcement then give a bill of sale to the salvor. The process normally takes 45-120 days. Florida has no vessel salvage rights, only abandoned property.

You cannot do that in Florida. Step one is you report it to law enforcement. Step two is they do an investigation. Step three is if the owner doesn't turn up, they may sign it to you.

Now, there is $200,000 available under the Rapid Removal program just passed. No one sure how that program will work though.

It's not comical. It's disgusting, but then everything ever seen involving him has been. I think we're still in for more craziness on this one. I wonder if the photo in #59 is really it. That just adds to the picture.

Total disregard for property and lives and for anyone else.

When they figure out the law, and who pays they will most likely pull it from the beach. This whole story is for sure disgusting. What an idiot this guy is, and I am being nice.

I looked at several of the photos and zoomed in and no numbers on the boat, at least not that I could see.

If? they haul her out from the beach they need to get it to N. Ocean BLVD and then to the Flagler Memorial Bridge they can not haul her out thru a beach front property yard. I suppose another option would take her out to sea and sink it. To do any type of heavy lift they are talking some big $$$ bucks. This guy most likely did not have the addendum on his insurance policy for this? That's if he had insurance?

From what we've read about Tom Baker, if there is insurance on that Hatt, it would be the biggest surprise yet. Or, if there IS insurance I would instantly think he did it on purpose !

The picture I took from about 200 yards away of the vessel on the beach shows registration numbers in about the same place as the pictures with the fixed bow. I was too far away with a camera phone to make out the numbers but they appear to start with FL in the picture I took.

On the Bahamas boat but no numbers on the beached boat.

Maybe there are numbers. I sure couldn't see them on the beached boat. You need to go get a better photo....lol

And while many of you are doubting he had insurance, I'm still waiting to hear the real ownership of the boat.

unfortunately, I looks like this Hatt has a good chance of leaving the beach in dumpsters after an excavator has its way with it.

bad ending for a good boat with a bad owner/operator.

So Sad

It may be to the point by now, that dumpsters is the best option. No telling what other problems it has. Recall he said he returned with one engine.

Another new boat name to consider. "Dumpster Out". A large excavator would crush that old girl up in about 20-30 minutes if that. It would take more time to load the remains into the dump truck. They may have to put on a barge first and crush it somewhere else.