The owner of a sailboat that ran aground Sunday afternoon has hired a salvage company to remove the 38-foot area from the rocky shoreline fronting the Kona Inn Restaurant in Kailua-Kona.
The owner of a sailboat that ran aground Sunday afternoon has hired a salvage company to remove the 38-foot area from the rocky shoreline fronting the Kona Inn Restaurant in Kailua-Kona.
The Macavity apparently broke its mooring and drifted toward shore, becoming grounded on the reef fronting the Kona Inn Restaurant in Kailua-Kona, according to the Hawaii Fire Department, which responded to the incident at 12:48 p.m. Sunday. No one was aboard the vessel at the time, he said. No injuries were reported.
As of the time fire department crews left the scene, turning it over to the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, no fuel was leaking, according to the department.
On Monday, the DLNR said they hadn’t received reports of leakage from the vessel, noting that the owner, who had insurance on the vessel, had hired a salvage company to remove the vessel. A timeline was not immediately available.
