Captain Logan Walker, along with his grounded sailboat, has become something of a cause célèbre on Stinson Beach. A nap gone awry turned to quickly become a perilous predicament for the crusty sailor when his 33-foot sailboat, The Chandalar, swerved off course and smacked into the sands in July. With his bare feet sticking out in court and firing up a weed pipe outside, Walker has defied the norms with a promises to remove the boat by the forthcoming Monday, sparking both a courtroom drama and a GoFundMe campaign amidst the town's folk.

Notable was Walker's entrance and exit in the courtroom, ditching shoes, sparking up the weed pipe, being unable to recall the location of his shoes, he conjured the image of an unconventional sailor marooned in modernity's court. Walker's living condition on the stranded vessel drew ire from some locals and managed to secure a restraining order against him, but his spirited persistence, community support, and the major task of moving a 10-ton boat has thus far deterred the county from dismantling the boat, setting up a countdown for Walker versus the tides. The boat's inconvenient positioning was to certain extent corrected when a group, in an effort of midnight camaraderie, managed to swivel the boat 90 degrees to face the sea, prepping it for its long-awaited voyage back to the waves.

But the community finds itself divided between its abhorrence for the coastal clutter and empathizing for Walker's struggle, with many, including Walker himself, argue that the boat's disassembling, the county's proposed solution, is not only ruinous for the boat but also bad for the environment, a cost of $50,000 as told by local resident Erica Lowry eventually looming over the taxpayers. Continue Reading the Full Article on SFist -->