A post for people that find broken boats

A few weeks ago a boat washed ashore at Kailua beach after a hit by a whale.

As far as I heard, a coast guard notified the owner later; but when the owner arrived, the boat had already been taken away by someone else. This someone has meanwhile contacted a repair shop and has been advised to return the boat. I don't know if he did or not. My impression was that the boat has not been returned yet.
( If that is not correct, my apologies )

Today we saw another broken boat on top of a car. This boat had not survived the Oahu championship race start. It had to be abandoned, was washed ashore a day later, the police was informed and the owner got his parts back.
This is how it should be.

Paddling is so much fun because we are friends; we may not like each other, we may compete against each other, we
may find all sorts of things to say about each others technique - (this is meant to be humor) - but I still think that we are friends:

None of us would leave anybody out there in difficulties. None of us would take advantage of someone having had to abandon his boat.
In any case of problems, we would consider the well-being of each other first. This includes paddles left on the beach - it should be close to guaranteed that such paddles find the way back to their owners.

To everyone who ever finds a paddler's item - a boat, a hat, sunglasses, a paddle, etc., old, new, broken, torn apart, whatever, :

Please return it to the owner.

Submitted by eckhart diestel on Sun, 04/04/2010 - 10:43pm