Salvage crews remove abandoned yacht from Snook Islands Natural Area
SALVAGE CREWS FINALLY removed the hulking remains of a 33-foot yacht that had been precariously abandoned since June on rocks in an environmentally-sensitive Lake Worth Beach waterway.“We removed the boat this morning from Snook Islands,’’ said Greg Reynolds, executive director of Lagoon Keepers, a Palm Beach County non-profit organization of volunteer boaters who remove and recycle derelict boats in county waterways.
The removal on Sept. 13 came as a relief to residents who’d been worried the derelict yacht might leak fuel and oil into the Snook Islands Natural Area and Lake Worth Lagoon.
“We patched it (Sept. 12) and dragged it off at high tide this morning and patched it again,’’ Reynolds said.
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