A 30-foot yacht used by the Boy Scouts of America’s co-ed nautical program the Sea Scouts was stolen from a dock in Marina del Rey sometime between March 17 and March 21, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office.
A leader of the troop (Sea Scout Ship 16) first noticed that the 1979 Islander yacht named “Island Hopper” was missing from its slip on Saturday. To make things stranger, the troop leader noticed a similar-looking sailboat “in pretty rough shape” tied up at the far end of the dock, Sea Scout Ship 16 Skipper Paul Renner told KTLA.
After examining the boat, the troop leader discovered that someone had removed Island Hopper’s DMV-assigned vessel number and attached it to the run-down ship at the end of the dock…