[Physicist]

That's not exactly a legal argument, but OK, let's take it as a moral one. Assuming you believe what you say, then any boat in NO is morally fair game, right this minute. If someone were to go and trash some perfectly healthy boats along the dock this morning, you'd say it serves the owners right. Because they live there, they assumed that risk. Who were they to think they could own a boat in NO, and not eat the cost if someone came along and messed it up? Right?

[mo]

"..... right this minute" you got some 'spainin to do here as , at this moment, NO is relatively dry.

Second of all..you establish precedence in this situation, nobody will ever again do anything for anybody anywhere under such circumstance.

frankly, the owner, whose boat appears to have been salvaged and put to good use under the circumstance, has'nt yet contacted anyone else who clearly used it and did'nt return it after Mark left it.