Derelict contact

I received a comment on the post “Derelict sailboat adrift” from a few months back. They claimed to be the owner of the derelict sailboat FL4807BU that has been dragging across the bay a couple of times.

The darelic small boat adrift belongs to us
Sorry if it caused any trouble, it was anchored for a long time without any problem until one of the two anchors line got cut (it seems someone cut it with a knife). It was by chance that I found your video of our boat drifting off…too bad you did not catch a video of what happened before that. I really appreciated the various people who helped in reanchoring it, we had already a chance to speak to the FIU patrol (at another time when it beached itself in the FIU rocks) who told us what had happened.
Thank you for keeping this daily journal.

I wrote back saying that their boat is illegally anchored and has several violations against it from the State Park and FWC/Marine patrol.

All it is doing is attracting vandals, causing damage to other boats and destroying the protected Mangrove trees.