Authorities work with boat owner to get beached craft off Harriet Island

Agents say they are working with the owner of a -foot houseboat that has been beached at Harriet Island Regional Park for the past month The houseboat manufactured by the former Whit-Craft Boat Co of Winona Minn was first spotted on Aug by a deputy from the Ramsey County Water Patrol while patrolling the Mississippi River in St Paul The vessel was tied to the shore and partially in the water at Harriet Island according to Steve Linders a Ramsey County Sheriff s Office spokesman The boat s motor bay was propped open and the boat appeared to be disabled When the deputy contacted the boat s registered owner government learned that the boat had lately been sold and that the new owner had suffered a stroke while aboard the vessel Although the deputy has followed up on the situation and been advised the owner is working to move the boat it still remained on the riverbank as of Tuesday Linders explained that the sheriff s office will continue to work with the owner to get the boat removed In May a -foot cruiser was definitively removed from the St Croix River near Hudson Wis after it had been abandoned nine months earlier creating a local nuisance Related Articles -year-old bicyclist fatally struck last weekend in Coon Rapids St Paul officer s wife manages flowers for Backing the Blue Line Now they re readying roses for her husband Casualties in Lakeville helicopter crash identified bicyclists and killed in separate collisions in central Minnesota Man doing survey work fatally struck along Scott County roadway