The city of Portland has issued a final notice for the retrieval of a Seaswirl Boat, registration OR 177 MAB, that now faces destruction if the owner does not reclaim it by April 5. After being towed, the vessel was placed in a city-owned lot, where it currently remains, the countdown to an unceremonious end ticking away.
According to the City of Portland, Oregon, the legal owner has a limited window to prevent the impending demolition scheduled for April 8, the boat has been left in a place that suggests neglect and perhaps a story that the pages of this city could tell, but those tales seem doomed to be unspoken histories, entombed in the vessel's fibers. The notice, stark and unadorned, does no more than impart the necessary information, setting deadlines and outlining consequences, a bureaucratic dirge for a forgotten watercraft. The window for redemption closes soon, and with it will likely slip away the echo of forgotten voyages, as the letter from the city blandly spells out fate without mentioning the past glories or silent stories vested in the vessel's marine patina.
