Seized Sausalito sailboat towed to Vallejo Yacht Club soon after 5-working day protest

A sailboat seized on Richardson Bay has been towed to Vallejo, ending a protest on board in which activists boarded the vessel and refused to leave.

The protest aboard the Tola Levine, which was moored at the US Army Corps of Engineers particles yard in Sausalito, finished on Saturday when Harbormaster Curtis Havel towed the boat with its proprietor on board to a slip at the Vallejo Yacht Club.

“The (Richardson’s Bay Regional Company) is not a towing services, there are personal firms for that, but this was a earn-win for community protection and the potential of the Tola Levine,” Havel said.

The boat was seized on Dec. 1 immediately after it was discovered in the navigation channel and remained too lengthy in the anchorage, Havel explained.

Owner Jim Rohrssen reported he was not aboard when the boat was seized and denied that his vessel was in the navigation channel.

He claimed he has an anchor alarm that notifies him if his boat drags anchor.

“I constantly check all those when I’m on board,” Rohrssen said. “Yes, I was inside 50 feet between the markers, but I was under no circumstances across the channel.”

Once at the particles lawn, activists boarded the boat by h2o with Rohrssen’s permission. Protesters stayed aboard for five times, expressing they objected to such seizures on behalf of the anchor out group, who fear their homes will be wrecked.

Havel claimed there were by no means strategies to crush the boat, stating only unoccupied boats or vessels considered marine debris are ruined by the agency.

The Tola Levine is not permitted to return to Richardson Bay, Havel claimed.