I once had a phone call at the business I used to own, the caller was with the fish and wildlife department. He told me that my boat, a sixteen foot Larsen deep V hull with a one hundred horsepower engine, had been found about a hundred miles from my home. He read off the hull number, engine serial number etc. and all matched my records perfectly. The strange thing was that my boat was sitting on a trailer in my yard and had not been moved in months. I told the man that I was certain it was not my boat and that was the last I heard from them. I still have not figured it out, some people asked why I didn’t go and claim the boat since everything matched but I was not about to go near it, I figured it had been used in drug trafficking, I just don’t know how someone could have an identical boat and motor with matching registration numbers and serial numbers.
Thanks for relating your experience. That was spooky.
It was likely some kind of entrapment action.