A Florida man sold his 31-foot sailboat in 2019 — then Hurricane Helene washed it ashore 5 years later. Now he’s been threatened with $1,000/day fines if he doesn’t remove it

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In 2019, Pinellas County resident John Fleming sold his 31-foot sailboat, Shenanigans — a boat he once sailed on his own from North Carolina to Tampa.

But when Hurricane Helene came along in 2024, it washed Fleming’s old boat ashore onto the Dunedin Causeway, west of Tampa on Florida’s gulf coast…

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