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off shore went to shore and went home. The following day Edmonds PD calls me and asked <br />me if I knew that my vessel had ran aground I said what no I didn't. Come to find out the <br />record breaking low tide we had last July sent my sailboat up on the rocks and I never was <br />able to recover it because I couldn't find any help. It wound up being scrapped later on. 4 <br />months went by and I discovered a 1982 Bayliner Explorer on Craigslist for free so I <br />responded and met with the owners where? The Port of Everett. The boat was in slip A-19 <br />until the end of October which I still had a week left to find out what was wrong with the <br />inboard motor. The end of October approached and I got a message from the previous <br />owners asking me how things were going and I said im still working on it and out of the <br />kindness of their heart they called the Marina Office to pay for an additional two weeks to <br />allow me more time to get things going and to notify them of the vessels ownership change <br />etc etc. During that entire two weeks nobody from the Port bothered to come tell me that <br />I'm not allowed here and need to leave. When I still couldn't figure out the inboard issue I <br />went home and brought my outboard motor to mount on the back so I could get the boat out <br />of the slip because those two weeks was nearing its time so I took the boat out into the canal <br />for a small test run and my outboard failed and caused me to drift to the northern most guest <br />dock. I spent about an hour looking over the motor before the weather got bad but couldn't <br />pinpoint the problem. I came back very early the next morning to find once again a trespass <br />notice,a bill for the past due fees from my sailboat and the one night this boat sat plus an <br />abandonment notice attached to my boat. Security came up to me and said if your boat isn't <br />gone by noon it's scheduled to be hauled away and impounded. I still couldn't figure out the <br />outboard issue but to sum the rest of this up quickly they put my boat back in the water <br />andcgave me several hours to try and fix it and leave. By the time it was for me to leave I <br />finally found out what was wrong but the Marine Supply store had already closed and I <br />couldnt get the part I need so I Jerry rigged something that I thought would work and it did <br />up until I hit the entrance of the marina and it died again causing me to once more drift to <br />the dock. Prior to this security told me that the slip A-19 was terminated 4 days ago and I <br />said well nobody bothered to notify me of that not the previous owners or anyone fromnthe <br />Port until now the last minute. So they once again hauled my current boat away issued me <br />two no trespass orders in the same day by two different people and now they won't release <br />my boat unless I get a trailer to move it off the property. I've been busting my buns trying to <br />find someone with a 26 ft trailer and so far have been unsuccessful. Being a single father <br />with two daughtersci can't afford to buy let alone rent one. One day on the Everett <br />Neighbors site online I posted asking for some help. One guy responded saying if I can <br />prove I'm a veteran which I did he'll help with 500 dollars. After I received that money I <br />tried calling,left messages with the Port staff,emailed them asking if I put 500 dollars <br />towards this pastvdue bill would you possibly consider putting my boat back in the water <br />after I fix it so I can take it to Kingston where my daughterscandvi will be residing on until <br />the VA sorts out the huge mess with our VA housing. Every voicemail,email and phone call <br />were left unanswered and finally someone emailed me and said all future correspondence <br />has to go through their attorney. At this point I wasn't sure what to do or think but <br />theyvrefused the money and kept telling me to get a trailer and that's where we are right <br />now. The Port won't speak to me,they won't respond to any of my emails. Their attorney <br />keeps saying the same thing that the Ports counter offer is remove my boat by trailer. I have <br />a contact at Bayside Marine that offered to check out my outboard motor at no charge <br />because he understands my situation but I'm trespassed and can't go to my boat to bring <br />Bayside my motor. The Port of Everett staff especially security have been treating me as if <br />I committed a felony or what not. They also haven't played by their ownbrules <br />andvregulations they put out and the rule and regulation in concern is listed in section D-1 <br />under operable vessels and the Port has not granted me anything in that section and that