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Originally posted by tomnewcomb

get ****ed richo how would you feel if someone "salvaged" your board

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Hay in fact someone did, and you assume to much. So put away your assumptions you jumped the wrong way. I am glad your not armed i would have been judged juried and executed in a flash. Nice work mate!!


Wow take it easy i would never keep a board i found and could not agree more with following good karma. Holy hell it was just a question. I ask it because i think i might have seen someone pick my board up out of the water and was wondering what rights the had with reference to salvage.
Sorry i asked it.

so after everyone has had their say (including me earlier), no one has REALLY managed to answer the original question about salvage rights.

So I'll do the research:

"When a ship or boat has been rescued or salvaged without prior agreement between the owner and the salvor, the salvor in some circumstances can legally claim recompense or "salvage rights"." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage

So if your kiteboard can be classified as a ship/boat, then I'd say that applies. There's a whole heap more on that site including flotsam/jetsam blah blah.

I think you'd struggle to say a kiteboard is a vessel.

yeah richo, sorry bro, i was a bit rash, just one of those things when you say your thing then think about it later.
touchy subject for all of us who have seen boards dissappear over horizons. anyway the whole point of this forum is to raise questions, bad karma to me.