They were on the boat the first day I talked to him. The next day he and someone else (there's a story there that I won't get into) did some boatcleaning and it was gone. But, sometimes boats can look better than they are. In this case, I discovered that basically every single system aboard the boat didn't work! (I kid you not!) I talked with him about this. He wasn't really motivated to fix the boat, though. As he saw it, the boat was just fine as it was at anchor: it didn't leak, he could sleep aboard, and go fishing and swimming while at anchor. In other words, it was like an immobile houseboat and summer home on the water - with nice views, I might add. Not my idea of what to do with a boat, particularly that kind of boat, but hey, it's his boat and he seemed perfectly OK with the situation 'as is'.

Jerry