Anonymous
At some point before Saturday the 5th or October 2019, a large private sailing yacht wrecked into the reef just off a beach in Goleta. The unidentified ship is located on the UCSB west campus Nature Preserve at Coil Oil Point. The incident is confusing and alarming, especially since the entire area the ship is located in is off limits to powered craft. The wrecked boat is currently sitting there on shore, stuck on a protected reef, as it has been since at least Friday night. as far as I can tell the owner has abandoned the craft. According to Maritime Salvage law the ship can be lawfully claimed by any person or entity for salvage title claim. The County of Santa Barbara provides 72 hours for notice by owners before the County assumes Salvage Claim Ownership. in this case their contract with Marborg for the removal of said waste kicks in. To my suprise, though the ship has not moved since Saturday. Furthermore, the ship is not clearly labeled with a name or State ID numbers, leading me to believe this is not a local craft. There a many possibilities here. Despite these blaring red flags, no effort is underway to remediate the craft. If anyone can help me out with some understanding of this nonsense situation, I would love to be clued in…
Grounded sailboat at Coal Oil Point? Word of mouth was that is was there yesterday.
Oh Bra it’s just like dude, you get the best barrels ever dude. Just like you pull in you just get spit right out of em, you just drop in and smack the lip WAHPOW drop them then BRAAA and after that you just drop in and ride the barrel and get pitted SO pitted like that
Yes there is a sailboat there
Hahaha YES!!!
Will make a great reef structure
Abandoned smuggling vessel?
What do you expect the “powers that be” to do to remediate this situation? Putting men and equipment in harm’s way to appease public angst over the health of a rocky reef is irrational and absurd. There is nothing to be done, safely, until the vessel reaches the beach where Public Works heavy equipment can crush and break up the hulk for transport to the landfill. Salvage operations are not cheap and they don’t pay for themselves.
This boat may be where the mountain lion has been hiding out, waiting to ambush a surfer.
Im not certain how this qualifies as a “nonsensical situation.” You lost me there.