How to get a boat for a hundred bucks

Michael Knoepfel (hamming it up here) is the new and proud owner of that old metal boat. And all it took was some patience, and $110 worth of advertising. The 38 year old took advantage of abandoned vessel rules, ran an ad in the newspaper seeking its owner for a month, took proof to DPNR and got the boat signed over to him.

(Virgin Islands Daily News classifieds: “Would the owner of the MK1 motor vessel, VI1332TB washed ashore and abandoned in Cruz Bay please call 777-3100.” )

Now that Michael‘s boat has come in, he has to work on getting it out. “I’ll see if I can get the engines working, but I’m also getting a couple of outboards to mount to the back platform,” he says. “This is going to be my own boat to have fun with.” And that might include snorkel tours or as a fishing boat.

Or something more patriotic.

“If Homeland Security wants to give me a grant to restore it, I’ll gladly give them a set of keys so they can use it in a national emergency.”

This entry was posted on Monday, March 10th, 2008 at 12:05 am and is filed under General News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.